Live Artillery shell found at Vancouver construction site - Polidicks

[img]http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2011/08/11/mi-bc-110911-artillery-shell-west-van.jpg[/img] [quote]Workers have uncovered a live artillery shell on a West Vancouver residential construction site. West Vancouver police said Thursday they were called to the site in the 6500 block of Bachelor Bay Tuesday, where workers doing an excavation found a brass-encased munition, 40 centimetres long by 10 centimetres wide and weighing about 16 kilograms. The part that ignites the round — the munition's primer — was still intact, Cpl. Jag Johal said. A rusted-out artillery casing was also found. The RCMP's explosives unit was called, who in turn called in the navy explosives disposal unit, which took the round away for destruction. WorkSafeBC has closed the site until it's deemed safe and free of other munitions.[/quote] [url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/08/11/bc-artillery-shell-found.html]**SOURCE**[/url] Wow, that's fairly large. How the hell did that get there?

How the shit did it even get there? Did the site used to be a testing ground or something?

[QUOTE=MIPS;31680726] Wow, that's fairly large. How the hell did that get there?[/QUOTE] Im going to guess someone put it there.

[QUOTE=doonbugie2;31680765]Im going to guess someone put it there.[/QUOTE] Who hides one artillery shell?

Maybe it came from an old British Quick-firing 4-inch coastal defense gun of some sort.

[img]http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2011/08/11/mi-bc-110911-artillery-shell-west-van.jpg[/img] They found your mom's dildo

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Lol only a while back some reservist stole an M72 and tried firing it in the forest only to be too stupid to operate it. So he just threw it on the ground and left it there.

10cm wide? Canada? Vancouver is a port city, so it's more likely to be a naval gun than land artillery. 10cm = 4 inches. What are some major 4-inch naval guns used by the Commonwealth states? QF 4 inch Mk XVI (naval multi-purpose) QF 4 inch Mk V (anti-aircraft) BL 4 inch Mk IX (mainly used on Flower-class corvettes) BL 4 inch Mk VII (used on WW2 armed merchant ships) We can probably discount the QF ones, as they have a metal case for the powder attached (like a big bullet or modern shell), while the picture clearly shows it was not that type (instead having powder packed behind it in bags when loading). However, there's no real way to tell if it was a Mk VII or a Mk IX (they might be compatible; I don't know), so that's as far as I can deduce.

I swear one of these stories come out every week. And yet we never know how the hell they got there in the first place.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;31681262]10cm wide? Canada? Vancouver is a port city, so it's more likely to be a naval gun than land artillery. 10cm = 4 inches. What are some major 4-inch naval guns used by the Commonwealth states? QF 4 inch Mk XVI (naval multi-purpose) QF 4 inch Mk V (anti-aircraft) BL 4 inch Mk IX (mainly used on Flower-class corvettes) BL 4 inch Mk VII (used on WW2 armed merchant ships) We can probably discount the QF ones, as they have a metal case for the powder attached (like a big bullet or modern shell), while the picture clearly shows it was not that type (instead having powder packed behind it in bags when loading). However, there's no real way to tell if it was a Mk VII or a Mk IX (they might be compatible; I don't know), so that's as far as I can deduce.[/QUOTE] jesus fuck you're smart

[QUOTE=Protocol7;31681298]jesus fuck you're smart[/QUOTE] Nah, I just looked around on Wikipedia and applied some basic logic. Edit: I mean, come on, that wasn't exactly a Sherlock-Holmes-level deduction there.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;31681262]10cm wide? Canada? Vancouver is a port city, so it's more likely to be a naval gun than land artillery. 10cm = 4 inches. What are some major 4-inch naval guns used by the Commonwealth states? QF 4 inch Mk XVI (naval multi-purpose) QF 4 inch Mk V (anti-aircraft) BL 4 inch Mk IX (mainly used on Flower-class corvettes) BL 4 inch Mk VII (used on WW2 armed merchant ships) We can probably discount the QF ones, as they have a metal case for the powder attached (like a big bullet or modern shell), while the picture clearly shows it was not that type (instead having powder packed behind it in bags when loading). However, there's no real way to tell if it was a Mk VII or a Mk IX (they might be compatible; I don't know), so that's as far as I can deduce.[/QUOTE] Nice try, but we already deduced it was whoever Zeke was talking to's mothers dildo.

Obviously a remnant from the Australian-Canadian war

I really need to keep better track of my arsenal

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;31681596]Obviously a remnant from the Australian-Canadian war[/QUOTE] yeah like the sino-iroquois trade conflict of 1563 shit like that always happens

[QUOTE=gman003-main;31681262]10cm wide? Canada? Vancouver is a port city, so it's more likely to be a naval gun than land artillery. 10cm = 4 inches. What are some major 4-inch naval guns used by the Commonwealth states? QF 4 inch Mk XVI (naval multi-purpose) QF 4 inch Mk V (anti-aircraft) BL 4 inch Mk IX (mainly used on Flower-class corvettes) BL 4 inch Mk VII (used on WW2 armed merchant ships) We can probably discount the QF ones, as they have a metal case for the powder attached (like a big bullet or modern shell), while the picture clearly shows it was not that type (instead having powder packed behind it in bags when loading). However, there's no real way to tell if it was a Mk VII or a Mk IX (they might be compatible; I don't know), so that's as far as I can deduce.[/QUOTE] It's probably a dud shell fired from something during WWII. What about this gun? [url]http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNJAP_39-50_t88.htm[/url] But yea, could easily be one of the British 4" shells.