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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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 Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:44 am Post subject: Unexploded bomb used as school bell for 3 years |
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Anti-landmine activists in western Uganda were stunned to discover a primary school using an unexploded mortar bomb as a bell, the group's coordinator told AFP on Monday.
"It was a big shock. When we arrived at the school we even found one of the students striking it," Wilson Bwambale, coordinator of Anti-Mines Network Rwenzori, said.
Bwambale said his team visited the 350-pupil Ikobero Model primary school, one kilometre from Uganda's border with Democratic Republic of Congo, last week after being tipped off by a curious community leader.
"The bottom was hollow, that is why they used it as a bell, but the fuse at the top was still live," Bwambale said. "Fortunately no one hit it with enough (force) to explode the bomb."
Following the discovery, Bwambale said he called the shocked teachers to a meeting, where he was told that the school had been using the bomb as a bell for three years.
"We recovered it and put it in a safer place and recommended that the school look for something else that could be used as a gong," Bwambale said.
Bwambale explained that the region is littered with unexploded ordnance left over from government operations against a Muslim rebel insurgency in the area that ended around six years ago.
Last year, the same team visited a school where an unsuspecting teacher was keeping a hand grenade in one of the classrooms, Bwambale said. |
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sadguy
Joined: 13 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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stupid, just stupid.
this reminds me of the teacher who used a bullet as a paper wait. he was tapping the bullet on the desk one day and accidentally shot himself. |
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liveinkorea316
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:15 am Post subject: |
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LMFAO x 10
That is the funniest thing i have ever heard.
However I think I have to call bogus on the teacher shooting himself with the bullet by tapping it on the desk. |
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sadguy
Joined: 13 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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| liveinkorea316 wrote: |
LMFAO x 10
That is the funniest thing i have ever heard.
However I think I have to call bogus on the teacher shooting himself with the bullet by tapping it on the desk. |
Paperweight Explodes, Severs Teacher's Hand Tuesday , April 04, 2006 VENTURA, Calif. � A teacher who kept a 40 mm shell on his desk as a paperweight blew off part of his hand when he apparently used the object to try to squash a bug, authorities say. The 5-inch-long shell exploded Monday while Robert Colla was teaching 20 to 25 students at an adult education class. Part of Colla's right hand was severed and he suffered severe burns and minor shrapnel wounds to his forearms and torso, fire Capt. Tom Weinell said. No one else was injured. He was reported in stable condition at a hospital. The teacher slammed the shell down in an attempt to kill something that was buzzing or crawling across the desk, said Fire Marshal Glen Albright. Colla found the 40 mm round while hunting years ago and "obviously he didn't think the round was live," said Dennis Huston, who teaches computer design alongside Colla. |
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robinsoncrusoe
Joined: 22 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:42 am Post subject: |
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| sadguy wrote: |
| liveinkorea316 wrote: |
LMFAO x 10
That is the funniest thing i have ever heard.
However I think I have to call bogus on the teacher shooting himself with the bullet by tapping it on the desk. |
Paperweight Explodes, Severs Teacher's Hand Tuesday , April 04, 2006 VENTURA, Calif. � A teacher who kept a 40 mm shell on his desk as a paperweight blew off part of his hand when he apparently used the object to try to squash a bug, authorities say. The 5-inch-long shell exploded Monday while Robert Colla was teaching 20 to 25 students at an adult education class. Part of Colla's right hand was severed and he suffered severe burns and minor shrapnel wounds to his forearms and torso, fire Capt. Tom Weinell said. No one else was injured. He was reported in stable condition at a hospital. The teacher slammed the shell down in an attempt to kill something that was buzzing or crawling across the desk, said Fire Marshal Glen Albright. Colla found the 40 mm round while hunting years ago and "obviously he didn't think the round was live," said Dennis Huston, who teaches computer design alongside Colla. |
idiot.
if god had any pity on the dumb bastard, let's hope it was his non-masturbating hand that got blown to bits. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:10 am Post subject: |
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| 40mm! That is not a "bullet". |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| There was a good potential for another Darwin award winner. For some reason when I look back at this incident, I keep thinking Laos or somewhere generally in SE Asia. I always thought of people in Africa as being smarter than that. |
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