Missle Handed In

[alan-d]

OK so if you found a missile you would hand it in, but would you take it for a drive across the Midlands first?

 

BBC News - Surface-to-air missile taken to Wednesbury police

[laserblazer]

When I did my RAF apprenticeship, it was customary to pull a Pass-Out stunt. We had some visiting military apprentices from France, who brought us dummy missile. The Passing Out Entry took said missile to London, climbed over the wall into Buckingham Palace and buried the thing nose down in the gardens. This was 1966, I'm not sure it would be as easy now. Rumour has it that the Met Police told the MOD that we could collect it from the local police station but I don't think anyone bothered.

 

I'm not going to tell you what our entry did because it is probably still on Avon and Somerset's unsolved crimes list.

 

I had an Isetta Bubblecar and when it got to Passing-Out time, I used to have to park it in the Guardroom compound otherwise it ended up in all sorts of unlike places.

 

Happy days.

[superfletch]

I love where it says:

 

 

"The man had collected a few items from the house clearance in Leicester and only realised afterwards he might have a missile"

[MK-2]

I love where it says:

 

 

"The man had collected a few items from the house clearance in Leicester and only realised afterwards he might have a missile"

 

to be fair i've done it too. i went to a jumble sale and just picked up a load of stuff and bought it. was only after i got home i realised i'd got a WW2 panzer tank, a nuclear sub and a pair of 60 denier tights.

 

 

how the tights got in there i'll never know

[Little-Miss]

Ahh yes, the Black Country...

[Rydra]

I bet THAT wouldn't fit in their weapons amnesty box outside the local station....

[pooley]

I bet THAT wouldn't fit in their weapons amnesty box outside the local station....

 

I thought that was a lucky dip? well you live and learn

[sted]

to be fair i've done it too. i went to a jumble sale and just picked up a load of stuff and bought it. was only after i got home i realised i'd got a WW2 panzer tank, a nuclear sub and a pair of 60 denier tights.

 

 

how the tights got in there i'll never know

 

where is that car boot i need a tank with all the potholes round here

[russdev]

Well you know in Leicester we prepare for worst be grateful it wasn't a working one

 

Russ

[CAM]

I noticed they haven't said that they blew it up!

[Andrew_C]

I heard (reliable source) that a crate coming through customs in a van was stopped when C&E thought that the driver was taking the P when he said that there was a penguin in it. Apparently the look on his face was priceless when it was opened.

 

[MK-2]

I heard (reliable source) that a crate coming through customs in a van was stopped when C&E thought that the driver was taking the P when he said that there was a penguin in it. Apparently the look on his face was priceless when it was opened.

 

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hey thats my penguin.....my names on it!!

[Rawns]

I'm not sure how I ever got it, but at home I have a M1 Garand clap with 8 live rounds from WWII. Edited February 11, 2011 by Rawns
Mistype causing comical posts ;)

[tom_newton]

I'm not sure how I ever got it, but at home I have a M1 Garand clap with 8 live rounds for WWII.

 

For ww2? You're a mite late

[timzim]

For ww2? You're a mite late

 

For you Tommy ze war is over...