Fort Hood personnel detonate 60mm mortar brought in to Texas pawn shop

[Elderberry]

American Military News by Ryan Scott  November 27, 2019

According to Ken Bishop, owner of B6UP Pawn & Gun in Commerce, a woman had been coming by frequently while trying to settle her late brother’s estate, taking his items in for appraisal. He said that the patron came by Monday, bringing a few items, including a dark green canister.

“I saw the canister was labelled as a 60 millimeter M50 mortar,” Bishop said. “I opened it, and you could see the fins sticking out.”

“I spent some time overseas and I knew what that was,” Bishop said. “I was shocked and a bit nervous about it at first, but I am glad that it was disposed of properly and no one was hurt.”

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[PeteS in CA]

June 1944 date code?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

A better way to handle things than what I saw by the Bellaire Texas police years ago.

The office I was working in had an incident where a briefcase was left in the foyer.  Someone walking by spied a wire protruding.  Called local police, who proceeded to bring it outside into the parking lot.

Several police emptied their guns at it there.

They are lucky it had no explosives in it as it was just a guy's briefcase full of papers and a spiral binder.

So much for experts handling possible bombs.