Here at Blue Crab Boulevard. It appears that word of our good advice is spreading! Faithful readers may remember our advice not to use live ammunition to swat flies. That advice came after a report of a man doing just that – resulting in the loss of a hand. He had been using a 40mm cannon shell he found as a paperweight.
Well, it seems that someone in Canada must have been reading our advice. It seems they had a 40mm cannon shell just kicking around the house. Undoubtedly having read our posts (we are insufferably modest about this, aren't we?) they decided they probably shouldn't keep it.
So they donated it to a thrift store. It was live.
The Canadian military bomb disposal people had to fetch the shell and detonate it safely.
Now if we just get one more 40mm shell in the news, we'll have another trifecta!
