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06 Oct 04 - 09:00 PM (#1290791) Subject: BS: Still More Florida Troubles! From: Rapparee As if Florida hadn't had enough troubles lately.... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Military explosives from World War II training exercises have been found four times along Florida's Atlantic Coast since Hurricane Jeanne blew through the area last month and uncovered them. The latest find came Monday when Army explosives experts from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station removed a 10 1/2-foot-long, rocket-powered explosive nicknamed "Tiny Tim" from the sands of Vero Beach. "It's a 500-pound, semi-armor-piercing bomb fitted with a rocket motor," said Sgt. 1st Class Jake Holland of the Army's 766th Ordnance Company. "The rocket had been fired, but the warhead was live." The coast stretching along Volusia, Brevard and Indian River counties was used in World War II for amphibious landing and other military training. Tank obstacles and other military gear have been found as well. After bomb experts dug up the bomb by hand Monday, they placed it in a truck on a bed of sand. The bomb was driven 3 miles away, placed in a 12-foot-deep hole, covered with sand and detonated with other explosives. |
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07 Oct 04 - 02:02 AM (#1290961) Subject: RE: BS: Still More Florida Troubles! From: Liz the Squeak Bet that was the most careful drive ever taken... definately "brown trousers" required! I used to work in a museum and people would get very excited when they found metal up at the local Iron age fort (populated Circa 2000BC - 400AD)... they thought they'd found Roman artifacts when in fact, they'd found WWI ammunition from when it was a training ground for new recruits! LTS |
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07 Oct 04 - 10:09 PM (#1291862) Subject: RE: BS: Still More Florida Troubles! From: Peace With thanks to Churchill, "Nothing so focuses one's attention as being in the presence of unexploded ordnance." |
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08 Oct 04 - 12:47 AM (#1291996) Subject: RE: BS: Still More Florida Troubles! From: Bert Tree says that Florida is getting all these troubles 'cos God wants to make sure that they don't screw up THIS election. |