Weird day in Nashville.

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Tuesday was a day to remember...at a middle school someone spotted a Glock .45 acp just laying on the edge of the street. :uhoh: Looked like five or six rounds in the officers hand. ( why would ANY gun be carried not fully loaded?)

Then a couple of hours later a lady was walking along and found a live, WWII, Japanese hand grenade!..just laying on the sidewalk! :what: Bomb squad ran over and took it off to blow it up.

Kind of an odd day. :D

I'm sure there have been days like this in your area...
tell us about the good/goofy/crazy ones you remember.

Mark.
 
guess thats how you get rid of a hand grenade without the BATF getting you. Thank God no child blew themselves up. So much for grenade control working.
 
We Make House Calls

The very day a local police station was showing off the county's new bomb desposal trailer, We had a little old lady walk into the police department, she was barely able to lift the mortar round and then slamed it down base first on to the counter. He only comment was: "My husband brought this back from Korea. I never liked it. We buried him this morning." She then walked out.

City Hall, the Police Department and everyone within two blocks were ordered to evacuate. The Chief of Police was on TV that night telling everyone to call if you they find any explosives. Do not bring them into town. "We make house calls."

His plea did not work. A month later someone brought a case of old dynamite he had found in the woods to the Police Station.
 
What you describe is evidence that it pays to advertise. Eureka means "I have found it!"

Change the town name to "Apienai" ("Go away!") and life will be more peaceful.
 
Mark in California said:
The very day a local police station was showing off the county's new bomb desposal trailer, We had a little old lady walk into the police department, she was barely able to lift the mortar round and then slamed it down base first on to the counter. He only comment was: "My husband brought this back from Korea. I never liked it. We buried him this morning." She then walked out.
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there arent many things that make me laugh out loud when im alone, but that did it. i dont know why...when you think about it, its a sad/dangerous situation. but my cartoon bubble showed a little old lady plopping down a mortar and nonchalantly walking out while, after a delayed reaction, everyone runs screaming and running into walls around her. lol, i watch too much tv...
 
Yeah, many years ago, the local university was doing a bunch of demolition and rebuilding. Someone showed a campus police officer a container with several sticks of dynamite. He kindly brought it to our headquarters for disposal. :eek:

Looked inside. Dynamite was sweating. So was I.....:what:

Thankfully, it didn't explode till it was safely inside the EOD truck!
 
My buddy found a Glock 20 outside the Mexican restaurant he used to manage. After sitting at the police station for 6 months without anyone claiming it, they said he could keep it.

(What is it with people throwing away Glocks? Are they like Bic disposable pistols?)
 
Reminds me of a time.

The story about the elderly lady and the mortar reminds me of an incident I had in the late "70's early '80's.

My family lived in Alaska. We travelled through Canada to get back and forth from the lower 48. At all previous crossings we declared our firearms and they were sealed, we then produced the sealed firearms to Canada Customs when exiting the country and they were unsealed, info recorded and given back to us.
On this trip I was travelling with an old .44 revolver that I had some work done to. When I walked into the customs bldg. I pulled the old .44 out of my overalls and placed it on the counter and said " I would like this sealed for transport to Alaska." When I looked up from the counter there was not a person in sight. What? just a second ago the place was full of customs and immigration officers.
Finally one old officer raised up from behind a desk and said " remove that firearm from Canada immediately." I said "hey man I just want it sealed so I can take it back to Alaska". The old guy repeated himself and told me if I didn't remove the firearm immediately I would be prosecuted.
I made arrangements to store the .44 at a business on the American side and went back through the line to Canada Customs.
It seems that several months previous to that someone came to that same crossing and shot the place up killing or wounding his Ex and her new man. That incident prompted the Gov. to ban the transport of handguns through Canada. Or so I was told.

I gotta tell you that if was pretty weird looking up and everyone apparently disappeared.
 
Then a couple of hours later a lady was walking along and found a live, WWII, Japanese hand grenade!..just laying on the sidewalk! Bomb squad ran over and took it off to blow it up.
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Those things are VERY dangerous. The Japanese used picric acid (which they called "shimose") as a filling. Picric acid is HIGHLY reactive with metal, forming shock sensitive crystals.

During WWII in New Guinea, my aunt's boyfriend would frequently come across cases of abandoned Japanese handgrenades. The cases would rot in the extreme humidity and distintegrate, spilling grenades everywhere. You couldn't just walk up and pick them up, because they might explode, merely from being moved. They'd throw a loop of rope on the far side of the grenades then pull both ends to drag the grenades toward them. If they didn't go off from that, they were safe to pick up and dispose of... probably.
 
Last year, my wife received an excited phone call from a friend of hers saying that our house was on the news and that the police had found a live grenade in it. She promptly emailed me for an explaination, but I was dumbfounded. I don't even own dummy grenades.
Turns out our block was on the news, not our house, per se. Seems the old man across the street had kept some undeclared class III goodies in his attic, and when he died, the realtor came in to clean up the place. Probably a pretty exciting day for him.
 
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"What is it with people throwing away Glocks? Are they like Bic disposable pistols?"

LMAO!!!!!!!!! Only a few things can make me laugh as hard as I am laughing right now.

Sig line contest??? My vote: YOU ARE THE WINNER!
 
Wheeler .44, did that office smell like a bathroom shortly

after you put that .44 on the desk????????, cuz some poor clerk probably s*** his pants during that 1 second paranoia.
 
Once, after a friend of mine had died, we were cleaning out the multiple outbuildings on his estate. We found blasting caps (but no proper explosives) belts of linked ammunition, 2000 rds or so-- probably .30-something caliber (but no corresponding rifle), some "black talon" pistol ammunition (illegal then afaik), some kind of weird rivets that could be fired into cement from a .22, and all sorts of swords (many of them antiques, one of them from several hundred years ago) and kung-fu weapons.
 
Local police had to shoot a man that attacked his ex and shot at the police...that's pretty wild for around here.

http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=127193

(KSDK) - A man was fatally shot by a Maryville police officer following a domestic disturbance, police said.

Police who were called to a home in the 100 block of Augusta Court around 2 p.m. Friday found a woman and her ex-husband fighting, Illinois State Police Lt. Mark Bramlett said.

The man produced a butcher's knife and cut the woman's finger before she fled to a neighbor's home, police said.

Police were talking to the woman when her ex-husband fired shots toward the neighbor's home before he was fatally shot by a Maryville police officer, Bramlett said.

The Illinois State Police Department's Public Integrity Unit is investigating the shooting at the request of the Maryville Police Department.

The man's name was not immediately released pending notification of his next of kin.
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And that's all we've heard about it.


Another time,I was excited to find a pistol in the woods. Turned out it was a junker old BB pistol that didn't even work. :(
 
Just another day in Post Katrina Louisiana
http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=7140861

Son Stabs Mom, Police Shoot Suspect in Defense

A mentally ill man stabbed his mother in the head with hedge clippers and was shot by Baton Rouge Police after he pulled a gun on officers during a search last night, police say.

According to police, the suspect barricaded himself inside the house on Mulberry St., and when officers went searching room by room they say he pulled a pistol on them. Officers fired one shot hitting the man, but the suspect's injuries were not life-threatening.

Both name have not been released. Police are investigating the shooting.

Neighbors tell 9NEWS that the victim's son is middle-aged and has severe mental problems. They say he was known to sometimes skip his medication.

"I am just sad for the family," one neighbor says. "He was relatively a good guy. I'm just sad."
 
Wheeler .44, did that office smell like a bathroom shortly
after you put that .44 on the desk????????, cuz some poor clerk probably s*** his pants during that 1 second paranoia.
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Yeah now that you mention it, there was a faint odor.
 
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