They found the WMD!

I'm gonna hold time hostage down in Florida, child.

Oh no! Now the students will never learn how to spell "buried"!

Damn, they found my emergency cache!

QU!RK1019: Oh no! Now the students will never learn how to spell "buried"!

OMG they will never learn them some books either

QU!RK1019: Oh no! Now the students will never learn how to spell "buried"!

I'm gonna potty train the chairman Mao.

/why has no one started this before?

comes to mind.

/anyway...

In other news, huge-ass fireworks show this weekend!

"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to blow up the bombs and rockets today at the southeast Orlando school. Residents should expect to hear several large blasts."

Is this standard protocol?

FTFA:
Rich McKay | Sentinel Staff Writer
" 'Wow,' I thought, 'that's an awful lot of materiel,' " said Orlando City Commissioner Phil Diamond

big fail in spelling for that guy.

blacknite: big fail in spelling for that guy.

You've got to be kidding... Not only that, but the person quoted, says things, the report writes them.. ugh! your post bothers me.

OLD NEWS!!

This has been going on for months down here. What do you expect when you build a school on an old bombing range? It's a public school, though, so it deserves to be blown up.

/because public schools SUCK!!!

"Whose field is that?"

"Mine!"

Maybe the ordinance can finish the job the hurricanes
have been at for decades

blacknite:
big fail in spelling for that guy.


http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=materiel

That stuff would be great for Counter strike.

sneakattack: "The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to blow up the bombs and rockets today at the southeast Orlando school. Residents should expect to hear several large blasts."

Is this standard protocol?

If they deem it unsafe to transport them, yes it is. While I lived in Holland, the house's basements a few streets over were being dug out in the first stage of construction, and they found an old WW2 bomb that had been dropped by the British on their way to Germany. That happens a lot more than you would think.

Anywho, the military came, evacuated everyone, took their keys, left the doors and windows open. When they cleared out about 9 blocks in all directions, including shutting down the A44 (Major Highway) they moved the bomb about a block away into a sheep grazing field, and blowed it up.

Standard Operating Procedure.

sneakattack: "The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to blow up the bombs and rockets today at the southeast Orlando school. Residents should expect to hear several large blasts."

Is this standard protocol?

It's more than standard protocol. It's their duty as bombs to make big BOOM sounds then exploding

Shoot, a feller could have a real good time in Vegas with all that stuff

Anagrammer: "Whose field is that?"

"Mine!"

You obviously only drink Winner's Choice^tm coffee.

LewDux: It's their duty as bombs to make big BOOM sounds then exploding

Just the bomb trying to be the best bomb it can be.

/former munitions tech
//getting a kick, etc...

Quantumbunny: If they deem it unsafe to transport them, yes it is.

Yeah, I live in Norway, many a happy summer holiday back in my early teens were spent snorkeling around in the lakes known to contain undetonated WWII ordinance, or having a conveniently close proximity to where German stores were, then report whatever was found, and hang around watching underwater explosions.

I have a 35mm Canon....
/Fail....

What do you expect from the penis state.

I bet the 37mm cannon they found is an M3.

When I first read the description of the cache, I thought to myself, "hey, if the gun's in decent shape they could fix it up, de-militarize it and leave it at the school for the kids to play on." Then, after about five seconds, I remembered the current fascination with blaming weapons for crimes, and knew straight away asshole parents and administrators would never let the snowflakes be exposed to such a vile piece of metal.

/loved moving the flak guns on old Navy ships as a kid
//"Aim for the gift shop!"

burried?????

what is burried??????

This is why you don't build on old firing ranges.

IM' reely sic off stopid peeple pointn oot evarie speelin errir. hoo fregan carez. qit bein Morans annd leet itt goe!

Neighborhood Watch- Targeting a house near you

"Army to blow up ordnance today"
Ordnance?
This article is full of spelling fail.

Bathroom Gumshoe: I'm gonna hold time hostage down in Florida, child.

That takes me back

MiriamSingsLoud: "Army to blow up ordnance today"
Ordnance?
This article is full of spelling fail.

ord·nance (ôrdnns)
n.
1. Military materiel, such as weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles, and equipment.

Why, what did you think it was supposed to be? Fail the failer.

*walks away with head down in shame"

johndalek: burried?????

what is burried??????

Alexander Hamilton got burried... for damn sure.

phillydrifter

As a former EoD, this is my version of that pic...






/if they need a new home for that 37mm, I am willing to adopt it..

in 50 years, I can just imagine the stories....

back in my day, we had bombs and rockets buried around our school. recess was like Easter, but with explosions. The safest thing we had in the playground was the swingset... if you could get to it. Dodgeball presented its own unique challenges.

Our track was a mine field. The winner was the last man standing. Races weren't measured in time, but how far you got. We couldn't use a starter's pistol, made the runners freak out. If you did make it to the finish, you stop dead in your tracks and wait for someone to get you. Our school champion was a one legged boy nicknamed "one-legged joe"; he had half of his right leg blown off running the 440. Which half? The top half! Our trophy case was also a memorial.

letrole and Gyrfalcon:

Thank you both.

Quantumbunny
sneakattack:
Is this standard protocol?

If they deem it unsafe to transport them, yes it is. While I lived in Holland, the house's basements a few streets over were being dug out in the first stage of construction, and they found an old WW2 bomb that had been dropped by the British on their way to Germany. That happens a lot more than you would think.

Old WWII bombs being dug up happens every couple of weeks on some construction site here in Berlin.
Here they can't blow them up on location - the city would have been rubble again a long time ago.
They evacuate a few thousand people from the possible blast area and send in some lucky dude who has to defuse the thing.


True story: as a child, playing in shallow beach water, I found an empty shell - by falling on it with my ass.
To my luck the only things inside were mud and one of the rare local river crabs.

Must have been a nice little shock for my dad:
*splashsplashsplash*
"Ouch! Way too hard for sand."
*pulls offending hard thingee out of the water*
"Huh, a metal propeller? I guess some ship lost a part of its screw or something. Nice big and heavy, that will make a cool splash.."
*raises thingee to throw it away and watch*
Vader Dad: "NOOOOOOO! STOP!"

that must be like the cuban "r-rolling" form of buried... as in burrrrritos grande or i can't get that gerrrrrrrrbil out my ass

Until I read the article I thought they just found the time capsule the NRA put in the school's cornerstone.

FTFA:
"Diamond shared the Army Corps' photo of the excavated munitions
with the Orlando Sentinel."

Which then decided to not show its readers the photo....

Quick! We must dig up these sixty-year-old duds and move them around!

Yeah... that sounds hella safer than just leaving them the heck alone.

"But look here. Gosh."

In other breaking news, people in Florida still say "Gosh." Gee willikers, who'da thunk it?

/The terrists have won

Rik01: Later on, someone else stumbled on a live hand-grenade.

...aaaaand?

when I lived in Japan many years ago, a member of the self defence force came to my appartment door and tried to tell me something. I was not able to understand him, so I went back to bed. The next day I found out that they had discovered 200+ 500lb bombs while excavating in the school yard next door, and the man was trying to get the stupid American to evacuate the area just in case.

Heh.

Mad