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Cannon Shell Turned Table Leg Hurts 8 Montenegrins
Reuters ^
Posted on 11/25/2002 5:01:24 AM PST by Maedhros
BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Montenegrin family thought a World War II artillery shell was the ideal replacement for a broken table leg -- until it exploded, injuring eight people as they were about to eat a meal.
The Miskovic family in the town of Danilovgrad was preparing the local specialty of grilled pork fat on the table when the old shell went off at the weekend, the Yugoslav daily Vecernje Novosti reported Monday.
"It was our own idea to replace the missing leg with this cannon grenade," house owner Milovan Miskovic said. "We thought it was harmless...it was here in our courtyard for some 50 years."
But "all of a sudden, we heard a loud bang and then everything went black."
The newspaper reported the victims suffered only light injuries.
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posted on
11/25/2002 5:01:24 AM PST
by
Maedhros
To: mhking
ping
2
posted on
11/25/2002 5:01:54 AM PST
by
Maedhros
To: Maedhros
Wow...what a bunch of idiots.
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posted on
11/25/2002 5:02:41 AM PST
by
krb
To: *balkans
bump
To: Maedhros
It was probably the grilled pork fat that exploded!!!!
To: Maedhros
HMTL!! Hold My Table Leg Alert!!! What a bunch of morons!!
To: Maedhros
Time to rethink those hand-grenade-doorknobs too.
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posted on
11/25/2002 5:28:08 AM PST
by
Petronski
To: Maedhros
BOOOM......Yup, Darwin was right.
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posted on
11/25/2002 5:40:36 AM PST
by
wbill
To: Maedhros
I guess that used-syringe dart game is a bad idea too?
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; FreedomPoster; Timesink; AntiGuv; ...
"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....If you want on or off this list, please let me know!
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posted on
11/25/2002 6:29:44 AM PST
by
mhking
To: Maedhros
Hold muh artillery shell alert...
To: Hap; Bacon Man
And as luck would have it, I've been looking EVERYWHERE for a good recipe for pork fat. Now I know just to hand it over to Significant Other and Bacon Man.
12
posted on
11/25/2002 6:37:20 AM PST
by
Xenalyte
To: dd5339; cavtrooper21
Near-Darwin award ping!
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posted on
11/25/2002 7:04:00 AM PST
by
Vic3O3
To: Maedhros
Definitely the Darwin Award of the week.
To: Maedhros
That charge must have degraded really bad. Had it been normal, there would have been no witnesses to testify.
To: Redleg Duke
That charge must have degraded really bad. Had it been normal, there would have been no witnesses to testify. You're right about that. It must have been only the booster and not the main charge.
To: Maedhros; Squantos
Boy, those Montenegrin table leg replacements cost an arm and a leg....
-archy-/-
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posted on
11/25/2002 2:45:12 PM PST
by
archy
To: Redleg Duke; Squantos
That charge must have degraded really bad. Actually, it sounds like the round was a tank or antitank shell, likely a solid-shot armour-piercing round, the most common tank killer fired from rifled bore AT weapons back then. It was likely just the propelling charge that exploded, [either electric or percussion primers are found on shells from that period] bad enough when unconfined by a cannon's breech and likely spraying brass shards from the ruptered case around the room as well.
-archy-/-
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posted on
11/25/2002 2:58:24 PM PST
by
archy
Comment #19 Removed by Moderator
To: archy
Fifty years old? I wonder if it was an old Panzerfaust.
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