American tourist takes unexploded WWII munition to Vienna Airport

dw.com ^ | 07/11/18

[Jeff Chandler]

Dumb as a . . .

[miss marmelstein]

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

[Big Red Badger]

3 inch,,,?

[rktman]

Unexploded dud from the article.

[Rastus]

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.

[Larry Lucido]

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.

[alternatives?]

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

[Ancesthntr]

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

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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.

[beergarden]

“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...

[beergarden]

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

[Pelham]

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.

[moovova]

Just so I have a clear understanding...

Are you saying that what she did was OK?

[DuncanWaring]

On at least one occasion, they thought wrong.

[Fresh Wind]

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.

[Kickass Conservative]

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.

[Pelham]

Yep. There was one such case only ten years ago:

Virginia Man Killed In Civil War Cannonball Blast

[bgill]

Stupid is as stupid does.

[DuncanWaring]

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.

[Vermont Lt]

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.

[Rebelbase]

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