WW1 Luger found on Somme battlefields on Saturday

alanint · 03-03-2010, 09:07 AM

True on the average person's unfamiliarity with ordnance.

I frequented a hotel in France for many years, which used an old artillery shell to prop open the front outer door. I never really gave it a second thought as into the 1970's the presence of WW2 objects was not that uncommon in Europe.
One year I visited and it was gone. When I inquired at the front desk, they told me someone realized the shell was a live HE and had it removed!!

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03-03-2010, 09:07 AM	#34
alanint User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Marco Island, Florida Posts: 4,867 Thanks: 1,685 Thanked 1,917 Times in 1,193 Posts	True on the average person's unfamiliarity with ordnance. I frequented a hotel in France for many years, which used an old artillery shell to prop open the front outer door. I never really gave it a second thought as into the 1970's the presence of WW2 objects was not that uncommon in Europe. One year I visited and it was gone. When I inquired at the front desk, they told me someone realized the shell was a live HE and had it removed!!