| When I was a kid, living in Hawaii (early to mid 60's), I came home from school to find that I couldn't go home, as my entire neighborhood had been evacuated. It turned out that one of the people on my block had discovered an interesting tid-bit left over from the Pearl Harbor attack stuck in an overhead beam in his attic. It turned out to be a 5"-38 round fired from who knows what ship or wherever. Even though I was only about ten at the time, I wondered then, and still do, why the owner at the time of the attack bothered to repair the roof without discovering the "what" of that which had made the hole! As it turned out, the shell WAS a live one, and probably would have flattened the house at any time. I have encountered many "safe" bits and pieces since, and have never trusted any of them. As some readers have indicated, the idiot whom owned this 40MM round should have been the KIA, not those precious kids. |