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Daily Express Article

waffenamt

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Dont know if you boys have seen this?

My pal in the States sent me this quote from a recent article in the Daily Express.

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WOMAN TAKES WW2 BOMB ON JET


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The woman tried to board the plane with a live shell in her hand luggage


Friday September 26,2008


A BRITISH woman sparked the evacuation of an entire airport when she tried to board a plane with a bomb in her hand luggage.

Security guards spotted the live Second World War shell on the scanners as she boarded a Ryanair flight at Bergerac, in the Dordogne.

Bomb squad officers destroyed the shell in a controlled explosion, while 1,000 passengers and staff were evacuated from the terminal.

The woman, 55, said she had bought the 37mm explosive in a secondhand shop as a present for her husband, who collected military memorabilia.

A French policeman said: She told us she had no idea that taking a military shell through airport security would cause such a fuss.

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waff
 
You cant even own a gas mask in France. They are very strict on what types of militaria you can own including vehicles. Makes you wonder what she was thinking though.
 
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