Check your paperweight

[Columbia_Student]

<p>[Managing</a> director uses live bomb for paperweight - Telegraph](<a href=“Managing director uses live bomb for paperweight”>Managing director uses live bomb for paperweight)</p>

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Jeff Heyes kept the foot long shell on his desk at his print firm.</p>

<p>He had been given the object by a friend who had gone diving in the Solent on the South Coast and spotted it on the sea bed.</p>

<p>However, his office landlord, Clive Parks, and his friend Jon Williamson, a keen shooter, realised the detonator on the shell was still live and the TNT was showing.</p>

<p>They carefully moved the bomb out of the building and into a flower bed before calling the police who then contacted the army’s bomb disposal unit.

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[mommusic]

<p>I thought this was going to be about flying and getting a paperweight through the TSA! Any heavy object could be a weapon, you know.</p>

[backhandgrip]

<p>I recall going on an archeological excavation up at West Point when I was in college in the mid 1970’s. We found 3 cannonballs and the students dispatched them to the lab where we were cataloging the found objects. There in the lab 2 of my very nice friends started to hammer the rust off of the cannonballs with hammers.That was, they did this until a professor brought up the possibility the balls may be/have been filled with gunpower. It was interesting.</p>