Malaysian fisherman uses WWII bomb as anchor: report

[underpants]

Source: AFP

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — A Malaysian fisherman has been using a deadly World War II bomb as an anchor for his boat, according to a report Saturday.

Local police made the shocking discovery Thursday during a routine patrol in a fishing village in the southern Johor state.

The fisherman had been using the bomb for several months and thought it was safe on account of its age, the Star newspaper reported.

Police alerted the bomb squad who removed the 160mm device to be destroyed.

Officers discovered eight similar bombs in the village after following up on information obtained from the fisherman.

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[hobbit709]

1. He was just planning on dynamiting the fish.

[underpants]

2. Kenny Stabler's bio

he told the story of some good old boys down in the Muscle Shoals area who dynamited fish. The local sheriff/game warden gave them a friendly warning saying that he would hear if they were still doing it....so they went to Sears, got 10 feet of metal fencing, and a DieHard battery---they electrocuted them instead. It is much more quiet.

[Pab Sungenis]

3. Real sportsmen, hey?

Why don't you just drain the lake?

[old mark]

6. There you go - it's in the way, anyhow - all that water.....nt

[rolltideroll]

4. I am in the next town over from Muscle Shoals

AT the bottom of the TVA dam, you can see some of the biggest catfish in the world. 6 feet long. Scary as hell for the divers.

[flamin lib]

8. The way I heard that story

The Sheriff warned 'em to stop or he'd arrest them. They lit a stick, tossed it to him and said, "Hey, you gonna' fish or just talk all day?"

[underpants]

9. Okay

I don't have the book handy.

that is a typical Stabler type story

I do remember that they ended up using chainlink fencing and a battery

[rolltideroll]

5. The Bomb

[Lost in CT]

7. Well if it hasn't exploded in seventy plus years I wouldn't exactly

call it deadly...

[54anickel]

10. At the end of the article it mentions one that blew up. It was deadly for two of the three

people involved in trying to salvage the metal from one. Obviously something still explosive/deadly in those things, even after seventy plus years.

[hedgehog]

12. The French are still finding ordinance left over from WWI!

See the book

"Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare--The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat"


by Donovan Webster

[Coventina]

16. So are the Germans

My husband was in Augsburg a few summers ago when a construction crew found an old US bomb that had landed but never exploded. Needless to say, construction was halted while the thing was defused and extracted.

on edit: oops. I missed the fact that you specified WWI. The bomb I was referring to was WWII.

[cibrules2]

11. This isn't much news

This isn't much news...it would have been had he hauled up a lost nuclear bomb.

[Lionel Mandrake]

13. especially if it exploded. nt

[salguine]

14. I've been using an old Sidewinder missile to prop my garage door open.

[Turbineguy]

15. There's a great French film

(made in the late 50's-early 60's) about a mountain shepard who has an unexploded bomb near his house. After years of living in fear, waiting for this thing to explode, he takes matters into his own hands and from a safe distance shoots the bomb. The casing ruptures exposing a fortune in US Dollars.

Armed with his new found wealth he goes to Paris and proceeds to ruin his life.