You start cleaning out your shed and you end up with the bomb squad in

HenryBG said :

Thoroughly Smashed said :

It could have been anything.

My grandfather had a decommissioned WWII-era hand grenade made in to a paperweight, that was an interesting find in his boxes of junk after his death. Fortunately one family member already knew of its existence.

My grandfather had a huge range of unexploded WW2 shells in various calibres up to 75mm, mostly brought back from New Guinea, as well as a range of handguns and uniforms he brought back from El Alamein and various battlefields in New Guinea and Borneo. His shed was a bit of a wonderland. I don’t know where he ended up chucking it all in the end.

Some guys shed in Flynn?

I once found a thripney (threepenny) bunger in a mate’s junk under his house. Being a good and wholesome young man I put it back.

Being an evil little bastard I snuck back in the next sunday afternoon and put it under a milo tin and lit the fuse.

I was never allowed back to his place which I thought was a bit harsh.

Thoroughly Smashed said :

It could have been anything.

My grandfather had a decommissioned WWII-era hand grenade made in to a paperweight, that was an interesting find in his boxes of junk after his death. Fortunately one family member already knew of its existence.

My grandfather had a huge range of unexploded WW2 shells in various calibres up to 75mm, mostly brought back from New Guinea, as well as a range of handguns and uniforms he brought back from El Alamein and various battlefields in New Guinea and Borneo. His shed was a bit of a wonderland. I don’t know where he ended up chucking it all in the end.

It could have been anything.

My grandfather had a decommissioned WWII-era hand grenade made in to a paperweight, that was an interesting find in his boxes of junk after his death. Fortunately one family member already knew of its existence.

How do you go about cleaning your shed and being surprised when you find explosives? – why don’t you know they are in there? how can you forget something like that? I don’t like that there are such morons having explosives licences that they 1. can take that shit home with them, 2. are able to forget its there at all.

3 hrs? In 3 minutes he could have just called the nearest family who had teen kids and asked them to remove it 😛

poetix said :

Postalgeek said :

Somebody found an old packet of Pohas and panicked.

At the risk of outing a tremendous ignorance, I have no idea what Pohas is. I could only find ‘flattened rice cakes’ as a definition, and that doesn’t seem right.

Chinese new year fireworks that look a little bit like tiny sticks of dynamite.

Please go and slap you parents for giving you an overly sheltered childhood.

Postalgeek said :

Somebody found an old packet of Pohas and panicked.

At the risk of outing a tremendous ignorance, I have no idea what Pohas is. I could only find ‘flattened rice cakes’ as a definition, and that doesn’t seem right.

Somebody found an old packet of Pohas and panicked.

Probably just getting ready for a street party.