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American tourist takes unexploded WWII munition to Vienna Airport
dw.com ^ | 07/11/18

Posted on 07/11/2018 10:39:51 AM PDT by Simon Green

A 24-year-old American tourist caused panic at Vienna Airport when she put an unexploded World War II artillery shell in front of Austrian customs officials and asked whether the "souvenir" could be taken onboard her flight home.

Officials quickly called the bomb disposal unit to remove and dispose of the 7.5 cm (3 inch) caliber dud tank artillery shell. The incident shut down the arrival and luggage hall for 15 minutes.

Police said at no time were passengers under threat.

The 24-year-old was reported to prosecutors for negligent endangerment and fined €4,000 ($4,694).

The woman had found the World War II relic while hiking.

According to the Krone newspaper, the woman reportedly cleaned the artillery shell in her hotel room so as not to get her clothes dirty when she packed it up to take to the airport.


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: austria; aviation; banglist; ww2
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To: Simon Green

Dumb as a . . .


21 posted on 07/11/2018 11:00:29 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: rktman

It does happen! But being an adult and carrying an unexploded bomb onto an airplane?!!!


22 posted on 07/11/2018 11:04:46 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: a fool in paradise

3 inch,,,?


23 posted on 07/11/2018 11:08:35 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
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To: miss marmelstein

Unexploded dud from the article.


24 posted on 07/11/2018 11:09:17 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: a fool in paradise

I’ll always remember a particular GIJoe comic from my youth. Destro tries to fire a wrist rocket and it falls at his feet. “Blast! A dud!” he declares.


25 posted on 07/11/2018 11:11:30 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: Simon Green
the woman reportedly cleaned the artillery shell in her hotel room so as not to get her clothes dirty when she packed it up to take to the airport.

Very sensible.

26 posted on 07/11/2018 11:12:20 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Simon Green

If she had kept her mouth shut I wonder if it would have passed security checkpoints and made it home?


27 posted on 07/11/2018 11:13:32 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Simon Green

“The 24-year-old was reported to prosecutors for negligent endangerment and fined €4,000 ($4,694).”


The cost of being stupid is high...and this idiot is finding that out at a young age. Hopefully, she actually learns to educate herself a little bit.


28 posted on 07/11/2018 11:14:35 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Simon Green

“The incident shut down the arrival and luggage hall for 15 minutes. Police said at no time were passengers under threat.”

ah I see. It wasn;t a threat yet you pulled the entire police force just for this...


29 posted on 07/11/2018 11:18:02 AM PDT by beergarden
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To: miss marmelstein

I’m sure a 14 year old would know the difference. Let’s face it: there are just stupid people around.


30 posted on 07/11/2018 11:19:10 AM PDT by beergarden
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To: Simon Green

I remember hearing of people who had found unexploded Civil War artillery shells and were using them around the house as decorations, thinking that they couldn’t possibly blow up.


31 posted on 07/11/2018 11:39:34 AM PDT by Pelham (California, Mexico's socialist colony)
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To: The Westerner

Just so I have a clear understanding...

Are you saying that what she did was OK?


32 posted on 07/11/2018 11:47:04 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Pelham

On at least one occasion, they thought wrong.


33 posted on 07/11/2018 11:59:55 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Simon Green

We are told to always assume any gun to be loaded, and to handle and treat them as such.

But unexploded munitions are to be treated as harmless if they didn’t go off when they were originally deployed.

OK, got it.


34 posted on 07/11/2018 12:02:03 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 trillion dollars.)
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To: Simon Green

TSA confiscated a Cigar Punch from my BIL because it was made from a .44 Ca Cartridge. You pulled the bullet out and it had a punch attached. It took three Officers to decide it was a danger.


35 posted on 07/11/2018 12:08:34 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (One Man's Mainstream Media is another Man's Ministry of Propoganda.)
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To: DuncanWaring
Yep. There was one such case only ten years ago:

Virginia Man Killed In Civil War Cannonball Blast

36 posted on 07/11/2018 12:22:38 PM PDT by Pelham (California, Mexico's socialist colony)
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To: Simon Green

Stupid is as stupid does.


37 posted on 07/11/2018 12:23:59 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Kickass Conservative

In October of 2001, the idiot passenger-screeners at Phoenix Sky Harbor wouldn’t let Joe Foss take his Medal of Honor with him on a flight - they thought it was some sort of oriental martial art weapon.

Had they known he was awarded it for shooting down airplanes, they would probably have fainted dead away.


38 posted on 07/11/2018 12:41:59 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Yes ma’am. You want to go into that field over there with a hammer. And rap it really hard on the bottom. Do that four or five times to get the dirt off it.


39 posted on 07/11/2018 12:59:16 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: D Rider

AFAIK the only WWII land battle in North America was in the Aleutians. :-)


40 posted on 07/11/2018 1:03:16 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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