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If you want ammo, just get yourself some field where a trench war has been fought. It will spit out unexploded ammo, bombs and mines at an alarming rate. You'll fill about a shed every year.

It is of course illegal to own these things. You're supposed to call the army (DOVO in my case), who will then tell you they have no time, have lost the capability to process these things, are on holiday for the next 5 years, whatever.

If this bothers you, you might drop them in a truck and dump them off at an army base, which will scare the bejeesus out of the poor soldiers, especially if you start jumping up and down on the heap like an angry madman (this might make it to some local newspaper). The army will declare this stuff far too dangerous for their base, and demand you to drag them back to your own field. If you can get kids to steal the stuff, this solves your problems with both the ammo and the kids. You might have a new complaint about noise levels.

What exactly is the problem with an old farth owning a few sheds full of world war ammo? Damn, my sarcasmometer just broke.




"What exactly is the problem with an old farth owning a few sheds full of world war ammo?"

Uh, the explosive potential? If his house catches fire and firefighters arrive only to be hit by a vicious explosion, that is quite a problem? IDK if that particular person lives in wilderness or has close neighbours, but if the latter, those people may also be pissed of when they learn that they live next to an improvised Vesuvius?

Old ammo is unstable and the region of former trench fighting of the Great War is still restricted for development, 100 years after the war has ended:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge


Just to be clear as this post managed to reach a scary -1 in less than 3 minutes.

That post was pure sarcasm. Nobody young or old should own live ammo that has been rusted away for about a century, especially if they desperately want to get rid of it. The governement should start funding the relevant orgs again so they can collect and safely disarm these things.


I see ;)

Sarcasm does not travel well over TCP/IP.


Sorry to everybody who was offended. I appended the line about the sarcasmometer, but the damage was done by then.


I wasn't sure at first, but I like it!

On a serious note, that's the reason why private EOD is quite busy in Germany. And the reason why Baltic Navy mine divers are among the best in the world, apparently these guys see more live WW1+2 mines in 6 months of training than US Navy divers in their whole career. Might be a tad exaggerated, but the Baltic sea is among the heaviest mined ones on the planet.




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