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March 15th, 2006, 01:27 AM
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March 15th, 2006, 06:55 AM
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Quite amusing - I've always found the hysteria whenever something explosive is found in the UK quite odd ( you know the sort of thing - 'Unexploded WWII grenade found - 10,000 people evacuated from their homes' ) when everyone cheerfully drives around with 20 gallons of petrol in a tin box under the back seat... 
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March 15th, 2006, 09:06 AM
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I find its civilians that usually go into one...
I can remember having a replica mills bomb, from forces days..dont know how I got it..just did..the difference in tossing that into a barrack room and the difference in reaction when you chuck it into a bank comms room is electrifying...I grew up quick though when I left forces and found you cant do that sort of thing..No sense of humour... Today I'd probably have been shot...right too...Ere Martin..your one of these petrol hoarders then............Only thing in my boot and under my seats are books, that I cant get into the house..no room..
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March 15th, 2006, 02:38 PM
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Actually - I drive a diesel. I remember using a deact Mills Bomb in a really boring sales training presentation once - livened things up a bit... 
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March 15th, 2006, 03:27 PM
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Now what would a load of German munitions be doing in a Warwickshire field?
Reports of munitions found in the area,
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March 15th, 2006, 03:32 PM
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Could be captured munitions brought back for evaluation and not properly disposed of. Or an unknown Auxunit training site?! [img]smile.gif[/img] |
March 15th, 2006, 03:36 PM
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I can feel a my first bestseller coming on....shades of "The Eagle has Landed" perhaps....
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March 15th, 2006, 05:55 PM
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Honington Hall is very close by - I could be wrong, but somewhere in the cobwebby back of mind I've an idea this was an army camp in WWII ? 
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March 15th, 2006, 06:16 PM
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You're not thinking of RAF Honington in Suffolk? Think that was a wartime bomber field.
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No - the Honington Hall which is near Shipston-on-Stour....
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