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2007-03-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Italian woman finds live grenade in potato bag

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oh, Mr Carcione, there's a pineapple in my potato bag.

Posted by GK 2007-03-01 01:00|| 2007-03-01 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, it does sound like a Pat & Mike.

Posted by Shipman 2007-03-01 01:57|| 2007-03-01 01:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't they dig up this kind of stuff all the time there?

Posted by gorb 2007-03-01 04:37|| 2007-03-01 04:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey, you Irishmen over there, behave!

Posted by Mike 2007-03-01 06:13|| 2007-03-01 06:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Good thing she didn't try to peel it - would have really messed up her knife.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-03-01 07:23|| 2007-03-01 07:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe someone took the term "Potato Masher" a little too literal.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-03-01 08:25|| 2007-03-01 08:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Ooooh...a prize!

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-01 10:28|| 2007-03-01 10:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't they dig up this kind of stuff all the time there?

In France, tons and tons and tons and tons and tons (see below), every year, and estimates on how long this will be going on is ~~decades~~ centuries. As a matter of fact, not only are explosives from WWI and WWII found daily, but shells from the 1870 war are still occasionally popping up.

See wikipedia :

In the Ardennes region of France, large-scale citizen evacuations were necessary during UXO removal operations in 2001. In the forests of Verdun French government "demineurs" working for the Department du Deminage still hunt for poisonous, volatile, explosive munitions and recover about 900 tons every year. The most feared are corroded artillery shells containing chemical warfare agents such as mustard gas. According to the film "Aftermath", these demineurs "have gathered more than twenty million shells but have lost six hundred demineurs. At the current speed, France will be fully cleared and safe - in seven hundred years." French farmers still find many UXOs when ploughing their fields; the so-called "iron harvest."

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-01 12:14|| 2007-03-01 12:14|| Front Page Top

#9 In the Ardennes region of France there remain dangerous stocks of buried WWI poisonous, volatile and explosive munitions that are similar to the left over WWII decaying nuclides in Japan but probally much more deadly.

Posted by RD 2007-03-01 13:35|| 2007-03-01 13:35|| Front Page Top

#10 No snarky comments about a "hot potato" yet? I think you guys are slipping!

Posted by Dar">Dar 2007-03-01 17:39|| 2007-03-01 17:39|| Front Page Top

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