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Years ago I used to work for the (then) Caloundra City Council and we had a UXO management plan and specific people allocated to deal with them. Most were coming from the North in the suburbs of Currimundi etc and they were from WWII. Over the period most of the old landing areas had been reclaimed and there were houses everywhere and the amount that "grew" out of the ground after 60 odd years was amazing.

Plenty of the old fellas would see these things coming up into their garden beds so out would come the crowbars and shovels until they got them out. There were even a few who would put them in the boot of their car and drive to the main office to advise the customer service people that they had these and where could they go to dump them. Obviously didn't realise that they were still live. Speaking to the bloke who was in charge of these he said you would be surprised how many had gouges in them and nicks taken out. Bloody wonder someone didn't blow themselves up but never heard of it happening so they must have some level of protection around them (wouldn't want to test that though). We used to laugh about it but were a bit horrified at the same time

<blockquote data-quote="Rodt" data-source="post: 612505" data-attributes="member: 19830">Years ago I used to work for the (then) Caloundra City Council and we had a UXO management plan and specific people allocated to deal with them. Most were coming from the North in the suburbs of Currimundi etc and they were from WWII. Over the period most of the old landing areas had been reclaimed and there were houses everywhere and the amount that &quot;grew&quot; out of the ground after 60 odd years was amazing.Plenty of the old fellas would see these things coming up into their garden beds so out would come the crowbars and shovels until they got them out. There were even a few who would put them in the boot of their car and drive to the main office to advise the customer service people that they had these and where could they go to dump them. Obviously didn&#039;t realise that they were still live. Speaking to the bloke who was in charge of these he said you would be surprised how many had gouges in them and nicks taken out. Bloody wonder someone didn&#039;t blow themselves up but never heard of it happening so they must have some level of protection around them (wouldn&#039;t want to test that though). We used to laugh about it but were a bit horrified at the same time</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rodt, post: 612505, member: 19830"] Years ago I used to work for the (then) Caloundra City Council and we had a UXO management plan and specific people allocated to deal with them. Most were coming from the North in the suburbs of Currimundi etc and they were from WWII. Over the period most of the old landing areas had been reclaimed and there were houses everywhere and the amount that "grew" out of the ground after 60 odd years was amazing. Plenty of the old fellas would see these things coming up into their garden beds so out would come the crowbars and shovels until they got them out. There were even a few who would put them in the boot of their car and drive to the main office to advise the customer service people that they had these and where could they go to dump them. Obviously didn't realise that they were still live. Speaking to the bloke who was in charge of these he said you would be surprised how many had gouges in them and nicks taken out. Bloody wonder someone didn't blow themselves up but never heard of it happening so they must have some level of protection around them (wouldn't want to test that though). We used to laugh about it but were a bit horrified at the same time [/QUOTE]

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