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KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - A landscaping crew about to grind a tree stump discovered 30 World War II mortar shells buried on property once owned by the Navy.
A worker hit and broke one of the shells Friday, but it did not detonate. The mortars could have done serious damage had they exploded, Sgt. Bobby Randolph of the Monroe County Sheriff's office said.
As a precaution, about a dozen homes were evacuated and cars were cleared from the area while a bomb squad removed the explosives.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Becky Herrin said authorities will contact Naval officials to "see if they want to destroy them. If not, we will."
Not to make light of this, but I have been reading the thread by Karla with a K about surprising her hubby with a Wii, and I read this post as Landscapers Unearth 30 WII-Era Shells
Very confusing.
On a similar note I saw a show listed on TV today about a search for an H-bomb that was jettisoned from a plane in 1958. It landed in the mouth of the Savannah River!
There is also an area in Orlando that is now a housing development that was built over an old base from what I remember, they are having to go around and dig up unexploded shells all over the place, some of them are under peoples homes.
I wonder who didn't think of this BEFORE the homes were built. The owners have said they were never told this when they bought their lots in the development.
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I guess I'm not surprised. My #2 son works for the Navy doing environmental cleanup. He goes to AK 2 to 3 times a year to help ckeanup munitions still being found on Adak from WWII.
I guess I'm not surprised. My #2 son works for the Navy doing environmental cleanup. He goes to AK 2 to 3 times a year to help ckeanup munitions still being found on Adak from WWII.
Now that you say that, I used to know someone who worked on a mine sweeper along the East Coast. They had to go out and disarm old mines left over from way back when as well. Can you imagine?
It would have been better to use the former military land as a park or nature preserve. But today's developers would build on a landfill if they could make a good profit.
It happened here in New Jersey (Surf City, L.B.I.) earlier this year, The Army Corp Of Engineers were performing a beach replenishment project when they dumped sand on the beach from an old offshore munitions dumping site. Evidently the sand was loaded with ordinance. The kicker was that the military wanted the town to share in the cost of the cleanup.
They find munitions and unexploded bombs / land mines / body's throughout Europe all the time that are WWII related.
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