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Not so uncommon although this one has the ultimate goal of "detonating" land mines rather than simply detecting them: "...offered the U.S. forces a large number

• e12e 12y ago
  The problem with detonating mines, is that it only gets the ones that works 100%. So you might still have some left with partly broken triggers. Doesn't mean they won't blow up later, though.
  • patio11 12y ago
    UXO (unexploded ordnance) remains a problem quite after the fact. A gentleman in Virginia became the latest casualty of the Civil War in 2008 due to a naval artillery shell. The house my mother grew up in, and the block surrounding it, had to get evacuated twice. You wouldn't naturally think Pulaski Street in Chicago would be a great place to find bombs but you aren't counting on my grandfather, who twice had a shell land in his foxhole on Iwo Jima and fail to explode. Believing them to be his lucky charms, he brought them home with him after the war and put them in his basement, next to his collection of nails. The CPD bomb squad said, after disarming the second one, "If he has a third one down here, it is your problem."