Pzkpfw-e Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16923295/bomb-squad-hospital-bottom-shell/?utm_source=native_share&utm_medium=sharebar_native&utm_campaign=sharebaramp A warning to those who collect shells, take care if you accidentally slip over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Grundy Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 This does not look like a 6 pr. I have a 2 pr in front of me and placed it at the side of my hand as in the photo. It is surprising that the press can get something wrong..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 I already thought it was wrong.....to have it in there.😳 Butt (😚), who am I to judge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 The shell they have pictured claiming it is the same type is also wrong, it has '7cwt' on the side which is the weight of the 6pdr barrel + breach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 So its partly CRAP?🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-boy Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 This reminds me of an incident in about 1979 when I was in Osnabruck. The regiment was about to go on exercise and the tanks (chieftain) were all bombed up. The loader/op in the CO’s tank slipped whist climbing into the turret and impaled his buttock on an AP round. Don’t know if it would have been worse if it had gone in his rectum, but it made everyone wince when they heard it. Still makes me wince now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11th Armoured Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 Well, I never knew that the 'A' in APCR & APDS ammunition stood for THAT! 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
79x100 Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 It's made the Belgian news too, but over here, most British shells that they find have been in the ground for more than a hundred years...The photo makes it seem even more painful ! https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/12/03/obus/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rootes75 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 As a militaria collector its just as well he didnt 'slip' and end up with a sword or similar up his backside....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
67burwood Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Accidents happen!! One minute your polishing your shell casing 😳 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisgrove Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Personally I am just surprised that anyone is surprised that the press got it wrong. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashley Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 An old friend of mine was cleaning/oiling his F&S fighting knife, door bell rang constantly, got up to answer it, returned sat on sofa knife blade went through thigh flesh (it had fallen between cushions) luckily no major veins severed 😫. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
67burwood Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 10 minutes ago, ashley said: An old friend of mine was cleaning/oiling his F&S fighting knife, door bell rang constantly, got up to answer it, returned sat on sofa knife blade went through thigh flesh (it had fallen between cushions) luckily no major veins severed 😫. Ouch !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferretfixer Posted December 24, 2021 Share Posted December 24, 2021 13 hours ago, ashley said: An old friend of mine was cleaning/oiling his F&S fighting knife, door bell rang constantly, got up to answer it, returned sat on sofa knife blade went through thigh flesh (it had fallen between cushions) luckily no major veins severed 😫. I guess He got the Point?.......😎 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Some years ago in the Ardennes at a 17th Airborne weekend. In a barn a young re-enactor is using the flat side of his fighting knife to tighten on his shoe laces (no idea why). My friend and I look at each other thinking or saying he will hurt himself. At that moment the knife slips from his laces shooting up into his face to his eye. He actually cut the outside of his eyelid drawing a single drop of blood. Luckily nothing more. It scared the excrement out oo everybody who saw it... I am sure he will never do that again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rootes75 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Someone I know at work was chainging a stanley knife blade...they had replaced the blade and then proceeded to tighten the fixing screw with a battery drill!!! Lets just say stitches were required to her forearm.... A knife of any sort is unsafe in certain hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citroman Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 I worked at a newspaper and i can tell you they write a lot of s... No thinking, no checking, just bla bla. 🤭 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david1212 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 12/26/2021 at 9:47 PM, Citroman said: I worked at a newspaper and i can tell you they write a lot of s... No thinking, no checking, just bla bla. 🤭 " never let the truth get in the way of a good story " or the reality was a box of apples falling of the cart pulled by a horse. A few hours later the circulated news was the wheel coming off the cart and the horse having been put down due to injuries. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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