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Black power becomes very unstable after time. Just moving it can ignite it. Be carefull.It was just black powder, and probably inert after decades underground
At Verdun, stuff from WW1 are found every day. If you walk the woods you'll be able to find all kinds of stuff, bones, handgrenades, guns, you name it. It's just everywhere.Didn't a farmer just recently find a live WWI Mustard Gas shell near Verdun?
At Verdun, stuff from WW1 are found every day. If you walk the woods you'll be able to find all kinds of stuff, bones, handgrenades, guns, you name it. It's just everywhere.
People are...well, stupid. When I was in uniform, we used to take some of our intel students on a battlefield tour of Dieppe. Bear in mind, these were all military personnel who'd been on rifle ranges and told not to pick anything up on the range. We also briefed them before we left that this was a battlefield and that they could, potentially, come across unexploded ordnance. On one trip, a couple of the students weren't listening to the presentation and wandered off a little ways from the main group. I turned around to see them kicking at something in the ground. It was something metal in the ground. I rapidly hoicked them away and gave them a reaming for being stoooopid. Turns out it was just s small-diameter metal bar that was buried but you couldn't see that when they started kicking at it. It was worse than herding kids or cats...and that's saying something. Unfortunately, people don't realise how dangerous unexploded ordnance can be. Just because it hasn't gone BOOOM! for 70 years or more doesn't mean it's safe.
So these clowns see a couple of shells laying there (I assume on the beach, since the paths are cleared of UXOs) and decide to take them home??This a picture from the local newspaper appealing for the identities of two men spotted leaving the Lulworth gunnery ranges carrying two rather large tank shells on their shoulders.View attachment 240149