Army investigating ordnance found in driveway material

Yahoo News ^ | 2/15/2004 | Steve Goldstein

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Be careful when you pull into your driveway.

[Strategerist]

Wow.....this is the second time this has happened.

Bethany Beach DE had a beach replenishment project a few years back; pumped sand from a bit offshore.

Turns out at the end of WWII a ship dumped a bunch of AAA ammo right where they got the sand, thus filling the beach with unexploded AAA shells.

[Doctor Raoul]

Last February, a Bridgeville, Del., resident discovered 32 corroded - but live - hand grenades while spreading crushed clamshells delivered to his property. Subsequent similar discoveries triggered the investigation.

He should have put them up on eBay...

[robertpaulsen]

Honey, I'm ho ...BOOM!

[Fido969]

"Some grenades were actually found inside the clams."

Boy, that would blow your Fryolator to smithereens.

[Doctor Raoul]

I recall reading a magazine on local New Jersey history. I believe it was around Egg Harbor, maybe even further south, there was a large ammunition factory from WWI in NJ. It's all gone now, but at the time it was a BIG complex. The time frame is off but I wonder if there's any connection.

[Rokke]

I live in Egg Harbor Township. A few months ago my neighbor had a load of topsoil delivered to his yard. He was spreading it with a Bobcat and uncovered a morter shell. He didn't know what it was, so he got out of the Bobcat, picked it up and leaned it against a tree. After awhile he decided to call the cops. 30 minutes later the whole neighborhood was shutdown. The punchline of the story is, he bought the topsoil from the neighbor on the other side of his house, who owns a development company. I don't think they've spoken to each other since.

[Goodgirlinred]

Wonder what an oyster would make out of a grenade?

[cyclotic]

One of the plants at teh company I work for was built on the site of a WWI munitions plant. Lots of stories of finding unexploded munitions during recent construction projects. Apparently there was an explosion there many decades ago. Every once in a while a shell turns up in someone's garden.

[thoughtomator]

Wonder what an oyster would make out of a grenade?

A Palestinian, of course!

[null and void]

A really big pearl to give your ex?

[punster]

The paving contractors said, "Business is booming."

[Hand em their arse]

LMAO!

[Kozak]

Turns out at the end of WWII a ship dumped a bunch of AAA ammo right where they got the sand, thus filling the beach with unexploded AAA shells.

Reminds me of a joke from the Falklands War

What's black and white and red and flies once?



Answer: A Penguin after stepping on a landmine...

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

I think this happened in north Louisiana as well near Barksdale Air Force Base a few weeks ago

[spunkets]

"Be careful when you pull into your driveway."

Just leave those wires sticking out of the ashphalt alone.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

This gives a whole new meaning to the term "Driving An Old Bomb"

[Goodgirlinred]

LOL! Good one.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,

Why does your driveway brow?

With land-mine fills and mortar shells,

And pretty clams all in a row.

[Goodgirlinred]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!