Bombs away...
A while back now I went on a camping trek through the North Sahara. It was a great place to go even if we camped one night in scorpion valley, a place you can only go through for a couple of months a year due to the overwhelming number of scorpions there.

Worries about being stung on the arse cheek when having a sneaky crap behind a rock were eclipsed when we went to Bou Gaffer, which if I remember rightly was the site of a battle in the 30's when the French decided they wanted to kill all the Berbers. They did this by rather nicely trying to drop bombs on them, but something along the lines of 600 unarmed Berbers beat a few thousand armed French as they knew the ground better and threw rocks on their head. We had an old boy on our journey and he demonstrated this by throwing big boulders of the summit into the valley below, and it was great.

On the way back down, we came across an unexploded and rather rusty bomb. Big thing, just lying around catching some shade amongst a bush. Cue old man (he was insane, energetic and ace) running over and picking Bomb up, bouncing it around and showing us what a bomb exploding should look like. We all crapped ourselves, and not wanting to die took a step back (clearly 1 extra step back being sufficient safe distance).

It never went off, and we just about convinced him not to throw it back down but to put it down gently. He just laughed at us, but at least he posed for pics too..
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( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 19:37, 6 replies)

Nice big one
you missed a joke about length there
(Pill Popper Thank you Sasha Shulgin, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 20:37, closed)

But..
I was told it was all about girth......
Still, I must remember to try harder next time. fnar.
( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 22:39, closed)

Ha!
Jim, that is fucking great, mate!!!
( SpankyHanky, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 22:40, closed)

Cheers..
..none of that 'picture or it didn't happen' malarky for me!
( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Sat 14 Feb 2009, 13:06, closed)

Shell
looks like an artillery shell; 8" howitzer?
(kitescreech still here, Sat 14 Feb 2009, 12:04, closed)

I have no idea...
All I knew is that it might blow up, and that it might smart a bit if it did...
( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Sat 14 Feb 2009, 13:04, closed)