I grew up in a rural Western Louisiana town that had a WW2 training base
nearby. One day a friend from school was running the plow in his field.
Plow went "clunk." Friend got off tractor, dug up live 30+ yr old 250 pound
bomb (with fuse), horsed it into the bed of his old pick-up truck and
bounced it into town to take to the deputy's office. A quick call to FT
Polk authorities brought down the EOD guys, who *gingerly* took it out of
town to another open field where they made it go "boom." Damned if he
didn't find another one a few weeks later.

Bruce
"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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"Roger Long" om wrote
in message
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Because of the extent to which security issues have become part of our
aviation life and this newsgroup, I thought some of you might like to
read
this story about the recent bomb scare at quiet Queecy Lake, New York.

http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Bomb.htm

Back when I was in the Fire Department, we had a lecture from the Police
Bomb squad guys. They get enough real bombs in similarly innocuous
situations to not care about things like this. He had quite a collection
of pictures of:

1. Real dangerous stuff like live ordnance souvenirs that people had
picked up.
2. Attempts at bomb making that is amazing they didn't kill the guy
building them.
3. Some really laughable attempts at homemade bombs, usually made up of
some
quantity of disposable lighters and targeted at some jilted lover.