Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/31/live-mortar-shell-turns-up-at.html
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That is a donation that make a real impact!
It’s all I got folks, I’ll see myself out now. 
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Someone tried to pass a spent rocket launcher thru BWI recently.
Just another day.
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Fuck Goodwill for exploiting the fuck out of a loophole that lets them pay disabled people well below minimum wage.
EDIT: I mean, not that their abusive behavior justifies this happening, if it was intentional
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the organization is clear that they don’t accept donations of live ammunition.
Why do they hate America? Sad!
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It’s not a launcher. The missile is shipped in a tube. Missile and tube are inserted (kinda like a big bullet) into a launcher rack (there are versions for ground, mobile, helo, or C-130).
Missile launches from the shipping tube, Afterward, the tube is a disposable, non-reusable, non-refillable piece of cheap kipple that gets left strewn all over battlefields.
Calling it a “missile launcher” is just another fear-the-terrrists bit of useless security theater.
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No fear here dude. None what so ever. Just wrong terminology. Thank you for the correction.
Kabuki theater is the TSA.
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I’ve just checked Goodwill’s list of acceptable donations – and yep – they really don’t accept 60mm M49A2 mortar rounds.
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Obligatory:
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This and lava lamps do have kind of a similar shape, tho.
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Oh, I didn’t mean to criticize you – The TSA called it “a missile launcher”, so it was an instant click-bait news-cycle darling.
The TSA knows better, but they like to keep the Alert Level high, y’knowwhuddimean?
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Is my Senior discount work with that? Asking for an old friend…
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I’m surprised that Goodwill is still a thing. In Canada, they collapsed as a cash-sucking scam.
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It’s for hunting.
And self defense.
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Man I really gotta see that movie…
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Hey stick around, with that kind of materiel you’ll be able to crater to the BB audience. We’ll have a blast.
@semiotix I’m surprised to see how short Nick Frost is. He has such a huge personality I imagine him as being vast, like Robbie Coltrane.
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As a regular Goodwill shopper I can guarantee you they have explosive deals.
But seriously, and this is funnier to me, the main Goodwill in Boston stopped selling pressure cookers after the Boston Marathon bombing. A cashier literally said to me “no we can’t sell this, somebody could make a bomb out of it!”
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Huh. I thought that joke would’ve bombed.
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Yeah, I snorted out loud at the clip, now I have to go watch that whole movie. Thanks, Happy Mutants…
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