If that's a UXO, I'm actually a little surprised it would be the police on the scene, rather than the army.
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Can't talk for UK, but in Germany there's a service by the government for cases just like that. No army or stuff, just the Kampfmittelbeseitigungsdienst.
E: "just" at the wrong place
gesundheit
If I own it, does it become Mein Kampfmittelbeseitigungsdienst?
Shut up.
CombatMeansRemovalService
It is a little bit more complex: those guys from the explosive ordnance disposal service are actually only there for ammunition which was used until 1945 or the end of the second world war. Every ammunition after that time falls in the scope of responsibilities of the German armed forces.
So yeah in total, we technically have two services in the public sector which could handle this stuff :)
There's 1,000 jokes that can be made in sure, but in the US I once found a grenade while magnet fishing and called a guy my parents know who is a cop. The moment I realized what it was, I told my friend to run to the end of the bridge, and I gently laid it on the pile of rope I was using.
They have a whole bomb squad that's about 30 minutes away at full speed, and they rolled up with their trailer, a guy in a suit came over to the bridge and placed it in a box, put the box in the trailer, and one dull THUNK later all I had to do was sign a paper saying this is where I found it.
I specifically called my parents friend rather than 911 because I had read too many accounts of cops showing up and attempting to arrest the magnet fisher for any number of reasons.
UXO is no fucking joke, don't for a second think you can handle it without training. You really have no idea what explosive compound they used or what it's stability level is after being exposed to the elements.
Why wouldn't you have just loaded it into the transporter buffer and then wiped the pattern (or beamed it harmlessly into space), Mr O'Brien?
Unfortunately due to some temporal shenanigans, I'm stuck here without so much as a self-sealing stem bolt.
No transporter system.
Besides, why would I want to wipe my pattern buffer ~~prisoners~~ ~~guests~~ experiments?
A real engineer would've been able to make a mnemonic circuit using stone knives and bear skins.
Look, if you want to wrangle with a bear to try and get that pelt, you go right ahead.
I've had enough suffering in my lifetimes, I'm hunkering down and waiting for the department of temporal investigations to show up and take me home.
Besides, you need at least 3μg of pergium, which I'm sure I don't have to remind anyone is not native to the solar system.
A quick break in on area 51 should do that for you. Bring the bear... for .... reasons.
You actually only need 0.75 μg of pergium, but it's nice to know who's work you're copying.
Cops can handle the perimeter. You only need army EOD if local cops don't have a unit.
Around here, they've got one among them on a good day.
And on a bad day, they have to pull one together. :D
Don't even get me started on the deeply psychological reason pigs love a sweet-glazed fried pucker to nosh on. 😶
Well, I imagine on nearly every place, the police would arrive before the army.
Police secure it before the army arrives.
It's an artillery shell and it looks used up from the primer pin
https://forum.cartridgecollectors.org/t/brass-3-5-x-12-tall-ammo-shell/33883/16
No. It's a water pump. He says it right in the post!
Plot twist : it's a shell casing used to house a water pump.
But it’s powered by explosives
A petrol fueled pump? Must be old.
Somebody left that silly little guy there...
Interestingly enough, I haven't seen one of those unexploded ordnance pamphlets since I was a kid, they used to give those to everyone in my country.
Guess WWII was a long time ago and people have done a lot of metal detecting over the last few decades.