Turned this one over to the police

[NZ49er]

Howdy folks,

I was out creek walking after dinner on Friday and stumbled on this. Nowhere near a military base, so I had to call the brother-in-law who was ex demolitions and blew up IEDs in Iraq. After getting about a 90% positive ID from him, I headed down to the police office and reported it's location.

It's a very small town in NW Missouri and they don't have a bomb squad, so it may be a few days before it gets positively ID'ed and potentially destroyed/removed.

There is the potential that I've got it wrong but it's close enough to warrant notifying the authorities. A lot of kids play in the creek and woods in this area.

I'll keep y'all posted.

-NZ49er

 

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Interesting find!

 

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[unclemac]

let us know for sure

 

[The Rebel]

Looking forward to the updates on this one.

 

[NZ49er]

Talked with an officer to see what the outcome was. He said they got an army EOD guy to have a look at it and it IS DEFINITELY a bomb! The expert said it had no primer and I'm pretty sure it was left in the creek from the way the officer was talking. It can stay there as far as I'm concerned. It's a neat relic, but there is always a risk the expert got it wrong, and even if he's right, just because it won't explode doesn't mean that there's nothing nasty INSIDE. We dropped some nasty stuff on Germany and Japan in WWII.

Keep your wits about you while hunting out there. You never know what you'll stumble upon.

Thanks for reading,
-NZ49er

 

[crashbandicoot]

It,s still there?Did the guy say what kind of bomb,shell,projectile it was?Sure curious about that.Don,t take this as advice,but being the kind of guy I am I,d tie a long rope to it and attach to my truck.Pull that sucker out.Might blow,might not,but I,d be far enough away it would be OK.Then,I,d call the EOD guy back to come get the damn thing.If it didn,t blow!!!!

 

[Silvermonkey]

Howdy folks,

I was out creek walking after dinner on Friday and stumbled on this. Nowhere near a military base, so I had to call the brother-in-law who was ex demolitions and blew up IEDs in Iraq. After getting about a 90% positive ID from him, I headed down to the police office and reported it's location.

It's a very small town in NW Missouri and they don't have a bomb squad, so it may be a few days before it gets positively ID'ed and potentially destroyed/removed.

There is the potential that I've got it wrong but it's close enough to warrant notifying the authorities. A lot of kids play in the creek and woods in this area.

I'll keep y'all posted.

-NZ49er

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Yikes! That a very interesting find. It would be interesting to know how the police handle the situation.

 

[DigToChina]

Talked with an officer to see what the outcome was. He said they got an army EOD guy to have a look at it and it IS DEFINITELY a bomb! The expert said it had no primer and I'm pretty sure it was left in the creek from the way the officer was talking. It can stay there as far as I'm concerned. It's a neat relic, but there is always a risk the expert got it wrong, and even if he's right, just because it won't explode doesn't mean that there's nothing nasty INSIDE. We dropped some nasty stuff on Germany and Japan in WWII.

Keep your wits about you while hunting out there. You never know what you'll stumble upon.

Thanks for reading,
-NZ49er

Seriously? Was probably quitting time 😒

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