I am glad my office is largely deserted, otherwise I would have to answer some awkward questions about why I burst into laughter from that. 
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“Today we are going to play The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with added danger.”
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Fire in the hole!!!
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Guys, we talked about this.
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These articles keep misstating the shell as “artillery” or “mortar”. It looks like its a 2pdr anti-tank round. And the important characteristic: its 40mm (1.57") diameter.
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If you don’t want people to put your munitions in their butts, stop designing them to look like buttplugs.
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But being this is a 2pdr anti-tank round, and would blow your ass clean off, you’ve gotta ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk?”
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As brilliant as Eddie Murphy was, he didn’t have the foresight to include a mortar round in his epic song on the topic.
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what what
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Indeed. Now I doubt the existence of mortars. And rectums.
The thing is, this isn’t even the first time I’ve read about this happening. (I.e. the munition getting lodged and requiring the intervention of doctors and bomb squad. How often it happens and doesn’t require intervention is another, un-knowable number of instances…)
These things happen, occasionally. The Sun story was just an (somewhat fictionalized, I imagine) elaboration on earlier reports.
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I like Butter’s version better
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Pulls out the metric ruler. Hmmm, 40mm… still nope…
Lemme guess. They “fell” and it got stuck there?
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Ah, so that’s why the bomb squad team always walk so carefully!
Yeah, I was wondering whether the photo was of the actual item, or just a stock photo. Because I don’t think anybody used spin-stabilized (no fins) mortar rounds that small in WWII.
Had it been up there for 75-80yrs?
That’s a level of commitment I can’t go near.
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