Posted on 07/11/2018 10:39:51 AM PDT by Simon Green
My wife’s uncle found an unexploded mortar round in a field in the Philippines in 1945 (I think). He and his buddy started playing football with it. Tossing it around.
My uncle fumbled it. He spent the next two years in various Navy hospitals and came home short a leg.
Young people do all sorts of stupid things. (He was a sailor, he didn’t know from nothing about mortar rounds.)
AP (solid shot), no bursting charge. So it is inert.
I cannot imagine a world where any person in a Security world would not know what a Medal of Honor looked like. Jeeez.
That was my first guess, German 75mm anti tank round.
The last Union casualties from Confederate ordnance happened in 1942. Soldiers stationed at Ft. Macon, NC were quartered in a casement and used some old cannonballs for fireplace andirons that exploded.
Well since it’s un-exploded it should be okay, right?
A-Hem!!!!
If she had been wearing a Hijab, Jibab or Burqa, they would have not only pass without repercussion, she would have been given her 'souvenir' back with an apology.
And my dad was sent there right after the Japs surrendered, to relieve the troops so they could go home.
“The 24-year-old was reported to prosecutors for negligent endangerment and fined €4,000 ($4,694).”
So the dingbat commie prosecutor expected a 24-year-old woman to have knowledge of WWII munitions.
Sometimes I want to call in an air strike on numerous European assholes.
Ok if she understood the danger?
or
Ok if she was ignorant about the object?
She told the airport officials about it, was that good?
How to answer? No matter what, she was not malicious, committed no crime and I think Austria should not penalize her financially.
“Unexploded dud from the article.”
Dud just means it didn’t perform as designed, not that it isn’t still full of pissed-off HE waiting to ruin your day.
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