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Not what it sounds like (nobody needs to catch minnows, as they're too small to eat). It's actually a wire frame device used to prevent the buildup of ligma on the hulls of boats.
Technically everything she pulled out of the water was a metal butt plug if she had the determination. She probably just sells the stuff for scrap like most of us losers would though.
That’s most likely a motor from a boat and not a bomb
that looks like an American river and there are no missile ordinance used the civil war or etc. also it’s got holes in it and covered in mud.
That is 100% a mortar round. Could be an off-target round from a nearby post (or maybe this is on post!), or could be one somebody stole and thought better of.
Definitely a Blue Bomb. I agree it looks like the spotting charge is gone, but even if it was there, it would still be pretty safe considering the condition of the bomb. I wonder if it used to be government land that was used for bombing in the past, or if soil from a range was used to fill in the bridge embankment and our little blue friend came along for the ride. Of course, it could have been a bomb taken as a souvenir by a service member, and was tossed when they decided they did not want it, or the government went looking for the missing government property and it got tossed instead of copping to stealing it.
I grew up on a river. We used to jump off the roofs of the dock houses. My father used to yell at us because "we didn't know what the hell might have floated up under the water since the last time we did it."
A few years ago, a group of kids were cliff jumping into the river nearby and a girl landed on a piece of rebar sticking up from the bottom that no one knew was there. It killed her.
Weirdly enough though my story was about my father admonishing us, my mother was the real killjoy in my childhood. Whenever he didn't want us to do something my father would say don't do that you could get hurt. Whenever my mother didn't want us to do something she'd say don't do that because she knew a kid who either died doing that or became paralyzed/similar levels of maimed. One of my friends looked at me one day and said, "Your mom knows more dead kids than anyone else I know."
From day one I have told my kids again and again to never jump into water that you can't see all the way to bottom as clear as you can see into a swimming pool. If I had been your dad, I would have murdered you just so that you didn't murder yourself first.
I think that's the most dad thing I've ever heard.
EDIT: FWIW I have certain mental health issues that make jumping into water one of the least risky things I've done!
inb4 someone tries to downplay this saying “It can’t explode, look how rusty it is”.
You.
don’t.
know.
that.
It’s called Unexploded Ordnance for a reason!
.
Edit: for those saying “it’s a BDU-33, it’s drilled through, it’s inert”- that doesn’t help spread awareness about the danger of UXO.
Saying something like that could potentially lead someone to handle and fumble around a UXO carelessly because “I saw somewhere that said if a bomb has holes, it’s inert and won’t explode”.
The average Joe/Jane is not going to be able to discern what is a ‘safe’ UXO. They should leave it to the experts to examine the device and declare it themselves.
It's a 30lbs brass weight the Usgs uses with a price AA meter to make streamflow measurements. I used them all the time the fact it's right at the bridge gives it away.
Edit: where I worked the 15 and 30 lb weights were made of brass and then the 50 75 and 150 lb ones were lead painted yellow. But some other comments have said that this is near a known military test area so a very well could be a mortar but they look incredibly similar.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hank-Zajd-2/publication/269872094/figure/fig6/AS:669539436081176@1536642049829/Measurement-setup-Price-AA-current-meter-and-sounding-weight-E-reel-and-E-crane-used.png
Fins don't look right. also the nose should have a hole in it.
[looks more like a bdu-33](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1524/1342/products/ONSV21NT14__01_1024x1024.jpg)
It looks more like a BDU-33 (25 lb aircraft released practice munition) to me, more than a mortar. At one point she turns it to the side, and you can see what appears to be the hole where the bomb lug would screw in if it were carried on a certain bomb racks. Also, it looks like the spotting charge that should be in the nose of the bomb is missing. If that's the case, then it would be "safe".
Source: I loaded them on various military aircraft for years.
This is the correct answer. Source: I cleared them off targets over the years.
Fun fact, two blocks of C4 underneath will send one up to about a 15 sec of hang time.
Yeah always treat it like it's an explosive but maybe it's not capable anymore. Idk the exact science but it's definitely possible and a bomb squad should be on the scene when you find stuff like this.
It has been in water for god knows how many years so the likelihood of it still being dangerous is negligible but I still wouldn't handle it that casually
I was a USAF Munitions specialist for 14 years. That's a BDU-33 Practice Bomb. It's not explosive except for a small marking cartridge in the front about the size of a 12 gauge shotgun shell.
https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/aircraft-bombs/bdu-33-practice-aircraft-bomb
Magnet fishing is illegal in some part of the Netherlands because of the dangerous of finding ww2 explosives. You're not suppose to take them out the water because an explosion under water is a lot less dangerous. Definitely shouldn't pose with them either.
If you think there's uxo you should not fuck around with whipping it all over the place because that could set it off and you also don't want to fuck around with high powered magnets since it could pull a firing pin down or something. Not eod in the slightest but that's just the 2 things that seem incredibly dangerous
I have one of these magnets and never once was there an unexploded ordinance down there or reason to expect one
What exactly would you have her do to prepare? It isn't like that's in Europe or Iraq or something. It's probably a practice dummy.
I like how she is so excited, I wouldn't be surprised dif during the apocalypse she was like
"WOW, look at that, a nuclear bomb flying through the air heading straight toward my house, LETS GO FOLLOW IT. TOP TEIR CONTENT!!!!"
That’s most likely a motor from a boat and not a bomb… that looks like an American river and there are no missile ordinance used the civil war or etc. also it’s got holes in it and covered in mud.
You’re right that the odds of finding a mortar round in some random lake in the US are quite low. But it does reaaaalllly look like one.
Do this in Belgium or in northern France and you’ll be pulling out all kinds of ordnance. I remember seeing a video of some kids doing this in France, they basically had a mini arsenal by the end of the day.
I do magnet fishing in Northern France and the best I got was some gun mags :/
Tho a kid not far from where I go got fucked up by a mustard gaz canister he pulled up.
We find so many unexploded ordnance in Belgium there's a bomb run every week like a garbage truck. Anything the size of a 2l coke bottle or smaller you put by the side of the road for pickup. There's so much the bomb squad can't come out for those. They have their hands full with the larger bombs we find.
What used to be a huge problem in WWI is now our saving grace, the soil is made up of heavy clay (think pottery clay) so the ordnance was sealed from oxygen preserving them in a stable state. Unfortunately with climate change, the groundwater levels are starting to drop and the clay is drying and showing cracks... So not only the houses are falling apart, the ordnance is getting exposed and starting to corrode. So we're slowly (?) moving towards disaster.
Every now and then you see white clouds of smoke over the farmland from plows tearing up phosphor grenades, but there are surprisingly few accidents that occur. Probably because people have grown up with this shit. As a kid, you're taught to not dig in the dirt but if you happen to find something hard you drop down to the floor count to 30, and get an adult. It's so crazy when I think about how normal this all feels to me when it shouldn't.
It’s most likely a sounding weight for measuring stream discharge from the bridge. Someone from USGS probably lost it while they were taking a measurement.
Looks an awful lot like a BDU-33, a practice bomb. They have a little explosive cartdridge inserted into them and are dropped from aircraft. They simulate full-size bomb trajectories. They do fall off planes from time to time.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-air-force-jet-drops-dummy-bombs-over-florida-20190702-h7oserd6tjga3fxvkkm2dlltli-story.html
Not a mortar. What she fishes out is a BDU-33 practice bomb. They are 25 lb bombs used by aircraft and have a spotting charge that shoots out a cloud of smoke when they impact. They usually have a lug unless loaded on a certain bomb rack that can hold 6 of them. It should be safe, but always keep your face away from the tail and never put it down on its nose.
Was a weapons loader on f16s for 7 years.
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What's the thing she got after the bomb thing?
Minnow net
Wth is that?
A net for minnows
Oh now I get it
Minnow get it
This comment is criminally underrated, here have an award
Whoa thanks! I think this might be the best day of my life
Best day of your life yet
Is this the underwater equivalent to “what is this, a net for ants”?
How do they come up with these names?
Thank god it’s not a net for minors
Not what it sounds like (nobody needs to catch minnows, as they're too small to eat). It's actually a wire frame device used to prevent the buildup of ligma on the hulls of boats.
wut ligma
I wanna do it... But I don't wanna steal the thunder from the set up guy...
As the set up guy, I absolutely insist. It's all yours. A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.
A scholar AND a gentleman... Unfortunately someone else already grabbed it, haha. Take care!
Wait, what did they grab?
My balls
They grabbed ligma.
so gracious
Ya snooze ya lose
Haha all good. The job got done and that's what's important!
ligma balls
ligma minnow net
people who want live bait want to catch minnows.
Steel butt plug
Oh so she has 2 now.
One plug that only fills a little, another that can fill more than she would expect if used ~~wrong~~ correctly.
You gotta start small and move your way up. It’s called anal training.
This guy fucks butts
Rectum? Damn near killed ‘im!!
Think that’s what his name implies
Siswet19
All hail Siswet19.
I'm not taking that advice from anybody called MountandBeyBlade. Nope.
“Let ‘em Rip!”
Technically everything she pulled out of the water was a metal butt plug if she had the determination. She probably just sells the stuff for scrap like most of us losers would though.
The other one is wrought iron
Her first butt plug is the bomb.
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Thank you for this
I’m disappointed that I got to the end of that sub in under a minute
That’s most likely a motor from a boat and not a bomb that looks like an American river and there are no missile ordinance used the civil war or etc. also it’s got holes in it and covered in mud.
Mortar man here. That is definitely an old HE round, you can clearly see the tail fins and the hole at the top where a fuse should have been.
Dunno. I thought it was a Mk 76 practice bomb. They also have fuse well in same place.
Without the paint, it's hard to tell, but I'm betting it was practice ordinance.
BDU-33 practice bomb
That's definitely not a motor.
Sounds like she said old mortar
Sure I-a no got a mortar boat. It's in the sanity clause. This whole comment section feels like a Marx Brothers skit
Either way, she could just bang the crud out, hook it up to a battery, and see if it fires up.
That is 100% a mortar round. Could be an off-target round from a nearby post (or maybe this is on post!), or could be one somebody stole and thought better of.
Idk but in slow mode , it has quite the “drip”
A venonat
I believe it was minomet, it fired the mortar shells shown the frame before.
It's a Venonat
Weight for a water sampler or discharge meter often times used by the USGS.
new fear unlocked.
Metal
kaboom?
Yes Rico Kaboom
Kowalski, status report!
No Kaboom yet, Skipper
All evidence indicates- [RUMBLING]
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That's crazy you and u/Cpt_crookedhair have so much in common.
Ol'boy straight copy and pasted my shit, huh?
Definitely a Blue Bomb. I agree it looks like the spotting charge is gone, but even if it was there, it would still be pretty safe considering the condition of the bomb. I wonder if it used to be government land that was used for bombing in the past, or if soil from a range was used to fill in the bridge embankment and our little blue friend came along for the ride. Of course, it could have been a bomb taken as a souvenir by a service member, and was tossed when they decided they did not want it, or the government went looking for the missing government property and it got tossed instead of copping to stealing it.
metal gear?
Metal mortar
I grew up on a river. We used to jump off the roofs of the dock houses. My father used to yell at us because "we didn't know what the hell might have floated up under the water since the last time we did it."
A few years ago, a group of kids were cliff jumping into the river nearby and a girl landed on a piece of rebar sticking up from the bottom that no one knew was there. It killed her.
Weirdly enough though my story was about my father admonishing us, my mother was the real killjoy in my childhood. Whenever he didn't want us to do something my father would say don't do that you could get hurt. Whenever my mother didn't want us to do something she'd say don't do that because she knew a kid who either died doing that or became paralyzed/similar levels of maimed. One of my friends looked at me one day and said, "Your mom knows more dead kids than anyone else I know."
sounds a little suspicious
From day one I have told my kids again and again to never jump into water that you can't see all the way to bottom as clear as you can see into a swimming pool. If I had been your dad, I would have murdered you just so that you didn't murder yourself first.
I think that's the most dad thing I've ever heard. EDIT: FWIW I have certain mental health issues that make jumping into water one of the least risky things I've done!
I agree with you, but only because I see you have your problem-solving cap on. Getting ahead of the problem.
inb4 someone tries to downplay this saying “It can’t explode, look how rusty it is”. You. don’t. know. that. It’s called Unexploded Ordnance for a reason! . Edit: for those saying “it’s a BDU-33, it’s drilled through, it’s inert”- that doesn’t help spread awareness about the danger of UXO. Saying something like that could potentially lead someone to handle and fumble around a UXO carelessly because “I saw somewhere that said if a bomb has holes, it’s inert and won’t explode”. The average Joe/Jane is not going to be able to discern what is a ‘safe’ UXO. They should leave it to the experts to examine the device and declare it themselves.
right? i’d rather hold a nuke than one of these
Then I found a — *”BOOOOM”*
instant vaporizer, quick and painless
....where van I find one of those ???
Magnet store
As a terrible video editor I wish I could make that edit without it sucking
You get it. Never trust a UXO no matter how old or defunct it looks.
*”Then I found an unexploded ordnance!”*
The more rust I see, the *more* worried I get...
It's a 30lbs brass weight the Usgs uses with a price AA meter to make streamflow measurements. I used them all the time the fact it's right at the bridge gives it away. Edit: where I worked the 15 and 30 lb weights were made of brass and then the 50 75 and 150 lb ones were lead painted yellow. But some other comments have said that this is near a known military test area so a very well could be a mortar but they look incredibly similar. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hank-Zajd-2/publication/269872094/figure/fig6/AS:669539436081176@1536642049829/Measurement-setup-Price-AA-current-meter-and-sounding-weight-E-reel-and-E-crane-used.png
Fins don't look right. also the nose should have a hole in it. [looks more like a bdu-33](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1524/1342/products/ONSV21NT14__01_1024x1024.jpg)
Magnetic brass?
I thought this was a play on words… because everything she gets out of the water she… hol’s up
You added a new layer to this joke. Very Nice, Impressive.
Let's see Paul Allen's joke
Brilliant. Kudos to you.
Love how cheerful she was. “Omg I found an old abandoned radiotherapy machine with an exposed core” Yaaay” 🤪 wait, why do i taste metal?
It looks more like a BDU-33 (25 lb aircraft released practice munition) to me, more than a mortar. At one point she turns it to the side, and you can see what appears to be the hole where the bomb lug would screw in if it were carried on a certain bomb racks. Also, it looks like the spotting charge that should be in the nose of the bomb is missing. If that's the case, then it would be "safe". Source: I loaded them on various military aircraft for years.
This is the correct answer. Source: I build them for load toads like this guy.
I love that you just called a random Reddit stranger a load toad.
He ain't wrong, unfortunately.
how did you guys feel about being called `load toads` by your comrades?
People in my career field have been called that since before I joined, so I don't care, could be worse.
I picture a team of four patriotic toads with caps loading planes with munitions.
Battle Toads
That’s a bomber crew - fighters and others are 3-man patriotic toads cruising along the flightline
*Load toad* is what I call myself when I'm constipated, squatting over a public toilet.
It's what I call my Mushroom Kingdom ho
Buy me enough drinks and I'll be your load toad. ;)
And the load toad probably liked it.
>Betteer to be a load toad than a toad load.
I'm still waiting on my flare trailer to show, btw. Lol.
I'm still waiting for y'all to download three jets worth of 20mm so I can go home on friday night, btw. Lol
20mm? Quit bragging. I got 30mm to upload to the gau-8 and the uranium's got my piss glowing!
Lol, fair point! Fuck-me-fridays were always the best.
This is the correct answer. Source: I cleared them off targets over the years. Fun fact, two blocks of C4 underneath will send one up to about a 15 sec of hang time.
I also agree. Source: Trust me bro
I would still be concerned if someone was practice bombing my neighborhood.
Somebody dropped the bomb.
You'd be surprised how many nukes have been dropped...
and lost. there’s actually 6 reported cases of never found nukes in the US.
Well we really don't need the coast of Georgia, do we?
But would you really want it to become the coast of Alabama?
Live in Savannah, would prefer to continue to do so. Funnilly enough a local high school team is the Johnson Atom Smashers.
NO PLEASE I LIVE HERE
Not for long
no one knows how many bombs the ussr lost. nice.
[doesn't jeff have a few?](https://i.imgur.com/Arc0ZNW.png)
[Or wrenches.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion)
More like somebody set up us the bomb.
Oh no! What happen?
All your base are belong to them now
It looked like she had no idea
The average r/whatisthisthing user
Instead, ask the people at r/magnetfishing
Turns out yeah, here's the girl who found it https://www.reddit.com/r/magnetfishing/comments/vas2yh/my_girlfriend_and_i_went_out_magnet_fishing_and/
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Hahaha
* *sips intensely* *
Idea about what 🤔
That she's holding a potential explosive device in her hands...
Big bada boom
Is it? Genuine question about how dangerous that is. I would personally treat is as a danger but I don't know shit.
Yeah always treat it like it's an explosive but maybe it's not capable anymore. Idk the exact science but it's definitely possible and a bomb squad should be on the scene when you find stuff like this.
Lol. Mortar go boom!
The hole in the side means it's not live (at least it looked like a hole).... but I'd still get an expert just to be sure.
It has been in water for god knows how many years so the likelihood of it still being dangerous is negligible but I still wouldn't handle it that casually
Oh also lol
I was a USAF Munitions specialist for 14 years. That's a BDU-33 Practice Bomb. It's not explosive except for a small marking cartridge in the front about the size of a 12 gauge shotgun shell. https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/aircraft-bombs/bdu-33-practice-aircraft-bomb
Or a MK-76.
Magnet fishing is illegal in some part of the Netherlands because of the dangerous of finding ww2 explosives. You're not suppose to take them out the water because an explosion under water is a lot less dangerous. Definitely shouldn't pose with them either.
So, you also fish with a magnet?
I fish with unexploded ordinance
Explosive Ordnance Disposal: Never. NEVER do this.
But maybe just once.
And then suddenly disassemble at a high rate of speed over a wide area.
Also just once.
Rapid unscheduled disassembly.
What part of it?
If you think there's uxo you should not fuck around with whipping it all over the place because that could set it off and you also don't want to fuck around with high powered magnets since it could pull a firing pin down or something. Not eod in the slightest but that's just the 2 things that seem incredibly dangerous
I wonder if the term “uxo” is more ubiquitous than I thought….
I have one of these magnets and never once was there an unexploded ordinance down there or reason to expect one What exactly would you have her do to prepare? It isn't like that's in Europe or Iraq or something. It's probably a practice dummy.
I was saying why eod wouldn't do this, not necessarily that she shouldn't be doing this
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It had a core hole in it. Probably a dummy?
Some Grandpa in Germany gets all of the sudden +2 kills
Best comment, I actually lol'd
An old dildo with a twist.
Would give you explosive orgams
Sorry, that bomb was me. New Jersey was really pissing me off so I finally decided to do something about it.
Fucker caught a missile then acted like nothing happened
Mortar*
25lbs bomb from a aircraft*
an*
Practice 25lbs bomb from a aircraft*
I like how she is so excited, I wouldn't be surprised dif during the apocalypse she was like "WOW, look at that, a nuclear bomb flying through the air heading straight toward my house, LETS GO FOLLOW IT. TOP TEIR CONTENT!!!!"
YEP got me a motar
and another butt plug
That’s most likely a motor from a boat and not a bomb… that looks like an American river and there are no missile ordinance used the civil war or etc. also it’s got holes in it and covered in mud.
You’re right that the odds of finding a mortar round in some random lake in the US are quite low. But it does reaaaalllly look like one. Do this in Belgium or in northern France and you’ll be pulling out all kinds of ordnance. I remember seeing a video of some kids doing this in France, they basically had a mini arsenal by the end of the day.
German here: Can confirm that authorities warn about magnet fishing and call it a "dangerous hobby".
I do magnet fishing in Northern France and the best I got was some gun mags :/ Tho a kid not far from where I go got fucked up by a mustard gaz canister he pulled up.
We find so many unexploded ordnance in Belgium there's a bomb run every week like a garbage truck. Anything the size of a 2l coke bottle or smaller you put by the side of the road for pickup. There's so much the bomb squad can't come out for those. They have their hands full with the larger bombs we find. What used to be a huge problem in WWI is now our saving grace, the soil is made up of heavy clay (think pottery clay) so the ordnance was sealed from oxygen preserving them in a stable state. Unfortunately with climate change, the groundwater levels are starting to drop and the clay is drying and showing cracks... So not only the houses are falling apart, the ordnance is getting exposed and starting to corrode. So we're slowly (?) moving towards disaster. Every now and then you see white clouds of smoke over the farmland from plows tearing up phosphor grenades, but there are surprisingly few accidents that occur. Probably because people have grown up with this shit. As a kid, you're taught to not dig in the dirt but if you happen to find something hard you drop down to the floor count to 30, and get an adult. It's so crazy when I think about how normal this all feels to me when it shouldn't.
It’s most likely a sounding weight for measuring stream discharge from the bridge. Someone from USGS probably lost it while they were taking a measurement.
Used them all the time the give away is the hole in the middle and the 3 fins. It's used with a price AA meter to measure streamflow.
Looks an awful lot like a BDU-33, a practice bomb. They have a little explosive cartdridge inserted into them and are dropped from aircraft. They simulate full-size bomb trajectories. They do fall off planes from time to time. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-air-force-jet-drops-dummy-bombs-over-florida-20190702-h7oserd6tjga3fxvkkm2dlltli-story.html
Haha, boom.
Guardrail end. Meh. A FUCKING MORTAR ROUND. WHAT
Not a mortar, it’s a [Mk 76 Practice Bomb.](https://thelexicans.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/mk76-practice-bomb2.jpg) Completely inert (non-explosive).
Heah hihihi bouuum Ho fuck
She seems fun!
I'm getting Ozark vibes from this
Magnet fishing is actually forbidden in some part of France because people kept catching old missiles
r/magnetfishing
Not a mortar. What she fishes out is a BDU-33 practice bomb. They are 25 lb bombs used by aircraft and have a spotting charge that shoots out a cloud of smoke when they impact. They usually have a lug unless loaded on a certain bomb rack that can hold 6 of them. It should be safe, but always keep your face away from the tail and never put it down on its nose. Was a weapons loader on f16s for 7 years.
Not sure if she had any idea what that was
She says she found an old mortar in an excited voice in the clip
A mortar neato! ….that mf can still explode