Thread: Close call!!!
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Old 02-21-2012, 01:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton View Post
They were sitting unmolested for over 50 years and now, finally, somebody decides that they're unsafe and it has become a "close call" and the bomb squad is necessary.............

Glad I was not nearby............
Perhaps you missed the part about the grenades not using pins to retain the trigger part, but instead used a cotton type of string that had degraded over the years, which, according to the TV story that aired, was falling apart as it was being moved...
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