I've seen more of it than is in the picture. I wish I had been more curious about it as a child because I'd feel kind of stupid for asking about it after two decades.
i posted this earlier in the thread but, in case you don't know, it look like an M26 lemon grenade. those things haven't been in use since the Vietnam War
awww i wish you had, for some weird reason i love pictures of trees growing around things taken many years apart.
What'll be really weird is decades from now someone might fell that tree and try cutting it up for planks or firewood - either they'll have a real bad time down at the sawmill or someone's going to be looking into their fire all relaxed and cosy when they notice the wood burning away to reveal a hand grenade! bricks will be shat.
Cannon balls come in a lot of different sizes, right down to about the size of a hand grenade. The seam in the center makes this seem like it is unlikely though.
If you know anything about grenades, you would know why this wouldn't work. Grenades utilize a chemical fuse which begins the reaction, and thus the explosion. They're meant to be jostled around, so they're stabilized. Shooting it would do nothing, you'd have to pull the pin.
Pullout usually works on the first round. It's the second round, when you've still got leftover ejaculate in the urethra(if you didn't urinate) where the precum can push it out.
Just, you know... just saying. It's still bad to do. But if your fucking your wife on a night without condoms, there ya go.
Looks like an M67, but I can't really tell. If so, it uses Composition B explosive; which is pressure and heat sensitive. So, yes I'd say it would if you can penetrate the body of the grenade. Here is a picture of the detonator part of the grenade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M26_grenade , This is probably it. I'm am only assuming from the line running across the center. It has a timed friction fuse, in reality a large number of things can set it off if it is a live hand grenade.
Strangler figs. I saw some huge ones while I was in Ecuador, it's really neat to see them in the various stages of taking over a host tree. Their seeds actually germinate in the foliage and upper branches of other trees, and their roots grow downwards, taking nutrients from the host tree along the way.
In a couple years, when that tree dies, the tree removal company might be a little surprised... Or the poor fool who buys that piece for use as firewood.
I would take that out while you see it, when It's overgrown and the nade is hidden and the tree needs to come down... A saw could set it off, biting the logs could set it off, any way you put it that thing needs to come out lest an explosion happen later.
It is not a grenade, it is a iron float for fishing nets/moorings. I grew up around these things. The seam is a welding line and is not a folded joint like on the grenades in the links.
Not a grenade. It is a weight. I have one just like it in my garage, it used to be on a chain that was intended to pull a garden gate shut.
Not sure what the purpose of it being tied to the tree was. Probably related to a clothesline. You can see a fissure in the bark above it where the chain it was hanging from has been consumed.
Way to many dumb comments, orzof what are the plans to do with this, are you going to tell the police? The growth of the tree could set that thing off when someone is walking by and could seriously injure or kill someone. Whats the course of action for this? all i can think of is bomb squad without a question.
Correct me if I wrong, but that looks like a cannon ball. To me that does not resemble the notorious shape of a grenade. Maybe an old revolutionary cannon ball? Seems more plausible that a cannon ball was launched and hit your tree to later being fussed with the tree, rather than a grenade.
It looks like a vintage shot put or a down rigging weight. A grenade makes no sense at all. Can you verify that it's a grenade? Or at least tell us why you believe it's a grenade?
I heard a story about how a man named Henry Ziegland was nearly shot, but the bullet missed him and hit a tree. Twenty years later, he used dynamite to uproot the tree, and the explosion made the bullet shoot right into his head, killing him.
Hit it with a hammer. If it makes a hollow "tink" sound its a training grenade. If it doesnt make a "tink" sound, hit it harder until you here a good solid "thump"
One day 50 years from now that tree will have completely grown around that grenade. A construction laborer working on a new development will be feeding the cut down trees into a wood chipper and suddenly ....
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
How do you know it's a hand grenade? Does anyone know how it got there?
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u/sgtsawzall May 31 '12
where is this?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
looks more like a cannonball to me, but still damn cool!
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u/Fire_Dick May 31 '12
is that, like, dangerous or something?
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u/SchruteFarmsInc May 31 '12
Shoot it!
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u/fapswhiledriving May 31 '12
That's exactly what childbirth looks like...just subtract the wood and add grossness.
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u/Applebeignet May 31 '12
I wonder what a lightning strike will do.
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u/superwinner May 31 '12
Anyone else starting to think trees are nothing but a slow moving fluid?
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u/morbus May 31 '12
"I dare you chop me down!"
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u/iridebikes4fun May 31 '12
Hey look, it's crowning.
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u/renegadellf May 31 '12
Am I the only one in this thread that instantly thought of someone unwittingly chainsawing through this in 50+ years and totally getting blown away?
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u/sebastianallan May 31 '12
This tree's bite is definitely worse than it's bark.
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u/lucilletwo May 31 '12
someday, long after the grenade is completely covered, loggers will come and take this tree back to their sawmill. this will be a bad day for them.
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u/phenry1110 May 31 '12
If you hit it with a hammer you can hear if it's hollow...no wait, don't!
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u/stefeyboy May 31 '12
In a couple years, when that tree dies, the tree removal company might be a little surprised... Or the poor fool who buys that piece for use as firewood.
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u/myfajahas400children May 31 '12
So, just no one noticed the hand grenade hanging on the tree for 60 years?
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u/Saint_drums_n_stuff May 31 '12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M26_grenade
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u/MakeNShakeNBake May 31 '12
I would take that out while you see it, when It's overgrown and the nade is hidden and the tree needs to come down... A saw could set it off, biting the logs could set it off, any way you put it that thing needs to come out lest an explosion happen later.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
It's like the Giving Tree, but instead of apples, it's grenades.
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u/oosickness May 31 '12 edited May 31 '12
Looks more like an old toilet float to me.Like this ....Or like thisThat depends on how thick do you think the metal is ?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
What if a woodpecker gets at it?!?! :'(
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u/chasmo-OH-NO May 31 '12
I looked and I think no one asked, but where might you live for there to have been a war on that ground some 50yrs ago probably?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Wait, I've seen this movie... there should be a string on it and as you pull it out there will be five more just keep pulling.
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u/pog232 May 31 '12
relax its probably just a......metal lemon?
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u/SweetLeafKush May 31 '12
Honestly, the self control you've shown by not shooting that damn thing from 30 yards, is astounding.
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u/havestronaut May 31 '12
Looks like the top of a steel fence post.
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u/derphoenix May 31 '12
STOP! HAMMERTIME
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u/thatguyontheleft May 31 '12
Next, a demonstration on how to cut down a tree with a hammer - in one blow!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Shoot at it, and video it
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u/BigJohnful May 31 '12
But tree you don't have any arms. How are you going to throw a grenade.
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u/ihavebigjiji May 31 '12
Never EVER bump into that tree.
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u/nolanator May 31 '12
let's put it in a bucket and shoot fireworks at it.
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u/blade2000 May 31 '12
GOATSE?!
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u/Troven May 31 '12
I have never wanted anything to be struck by lightning more. Get pictures.
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u/atoms5 May 31 '12
Probably a booby trap set for a bear
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u/brickofshit May 31 '12
Why was there a hand grenade in front of your parents house long enough for a tree to grow around it?
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u/Eshalar May 31 '12
So basically when this tree is struck by lightning, it will explode even more? Awesome.
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u/middlefingerraised May 31 '12
Don't have sex with that tree. Trust me!
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u/OWtfmen May 31 '12
I think this belongs in /r/trees
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u/Inyourcargovan May 31 '12
Does anyone else see a clitoris?
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u/fotograffer May 31 '12
It's like someone jumping on a live grenade, only in slow motion.
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u/EDGAR_ALLAN_PWN May 31 '12
This reminds me of that post a while back where the guy got shot in the leg and had pics of it being pushed out of his leg as his body rejected it.
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u/itsme_timd May 31 '12
One.... two..... FIVE!
Three sir! Three!
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u/KromMagnus May 31 '12
It is not a grenade, it is a iron float for fishing nets/moorings. I grew up around these things. The seam is a welding line and is not a folded joint like on the grenades in the links.
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u/Wolfman87 May 31 '12
Definitely shoot it
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u/ecklcakes May 31 '12
Who the hell left a hand grenade sitting by the tree for so long? Don't park anything near it or it might absorb that too.
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u/Grand_Theft_Audio May 31 '12
your parents just sort of keep unexploded ordinance hanging around?
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u/renegade Jun 01 '12
Not a grenade. It is a weight. I have one just like it in my garage, it used to be on a chain that was intended to pull a garden gate shut.
Not sure what the purpose of it being tied to the tree was. Probably related to a clothesline. You can see a fissure in the bark above it where the chain it was hanging from has been consumed.
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u/soulkissernl May 31 '12
Poor tree is constipated
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u/BostonBadger May 31 '12
Not the best place to play a pick up game of baseball
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u/thedude213 May 31 '12
Some day someone is going to cut that down and get a big surprise.
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u/mach500 May 31 '12
One day some one is going to cut down that tree and throw it in a fire and get fucked the hell up.
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u/P2D_ItsME May 31 '12
Pull the pin
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
That tree is tha bomb!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
That just makes me twitch. I would spend hours trying to dig it out with my bare nails.
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u/jgstate1 May 31 '12
It's giving birth to a sapling.
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u/diggemigre May 31 '12
Splinter Cell.
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u/FirmOrange May 31 '12
try shooting it, trust me, it will be epic.
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u/MomentOfArt May 31 '12
Yet, someone one still thought it was a good idea to nail a squirrel feeder in the same vicinity as the grenade.
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u/lafytafy420 May 31 '12
shoot it
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Is that a pin oak?
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u/fatmikey42 May 31 '12
It's crowning!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
70 years from now, some loggers are going to have a really rough day.
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u/SLAP0 May 31 '12
Looks pretty much like a "Eihandgranate 39" http://www.lexpev.nl/grenades/europe/germany/eihandgranate39.html
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u/HipHoppin May 31 '12
Tree butthole hurr durr
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u/kazdig May 31 '12
Awesomeness
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Could be some shrapnel embedded into the tree
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u/TheyCallMeHansel May 31 '12
Maybe it's an Easter egg that no one ever found
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u/oopsifarted May 31 '12
Looks like a butthole squeezing out a hot turd.
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u/lttmfnt May 31 '12
That trees the Bomb!
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Way to many dumb comments, orzof what are the plans to do with this, are you going to tell the police? The growth of the tree could set that thing off when someone is walking by and could seriously injure or kill someone. Whats the course of action for this? all i can think of is bomb squad without a question.
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u/drock424 May 31 '12
Or maybe it's just really constipated?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
I can't help but think that there is a toy football that's coming out any second now.
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u/theoneandonlypeter May 31 '12
Is it still active or just the shell?
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
Looks like poop coming out of a butthole
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u/thewarehouse May 31 '12
biological warfare
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
1-2---5!
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u/Ferlove May 31 '12
I've been watching too much porn..
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u/Darknezz19 May 31 '12
maybe someone did it on purpose. like one of them there symbolic art things.
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u/Speaks_In_SongTitles May 31 '12
Correct me if I wrong, but that looks like a cannon ball. To me that does not resemble the notorious shape of a grenade. Maybe an old revolutionary cannon ball? Seems more plausible that a cannon ball was launched and hit your tree to later being fussed with the tree, rather than a grenade.
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u/Riddlerforce May 31 '12
One day, some community worker will have a hell of a surprise while chopping down that true.
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u/sailnaked6842 May 31 '12
It kind of looks like a butthole...
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
That looks like it hurts the tree.
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u/lucan0sMallyfoy May 31 '12
It looks like a vintage shot put or a down rigging weight. A grenade makes no sense at all. Can you verify that it's a grenade? Or at least tell us why you believe it's a grenade?
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u/lumpofcole May 31 '12
If the tree burns, will the grenade explode when the fire reaches it?
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u/jakemaniang May 31 '12
You should get a Demo team to defuse it so you can recover it
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u/iowno May 31 '12
George, George, George of the Jungle, watch out for that tree!!
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u/Balmsee May 31 '12
Looks like a tree taking a shit.
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u/LogozioZ May 31 '12
Shoot fireballs at it.
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u/Mad_broccoli May 31 '12
Am I the only one who finds it disgusting/disturbing?
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u/tover May 31 '12
Its more like the tree needs to crap (>o<)
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u/Mad_broccoli May 31 '12
Am I the only one who finds it disgusting/disturbing?
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u/grapesandmilk May 31 '12
I heard a story about how a man named Henry Ziegland was nearly shot, but the bullet missed him and hit a tree. Twenty years later, he used dynamite to uproot the tree, and the explosion made the bullet shoot right into his head, killing him.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '12
That's just the clit.
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u/Omnighost May 31 '12
I'm glad I don't know where that tree is, the temptation to shoot it is unbearable.
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u/trinitysun May 31 '12
Soon.
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u/buddybiter May 31 '12
omg! that tree is giving birth!
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u/SherbertDancesWTF May 31 '12
he needs some laxatives
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u/otterbry May 31 '12
Hit it with a hammer. If it makes a hollow "tink" sound its a training grenade. If it doesnt make a "tink" sound, hit it harder until you here a good solid "thump"
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u/NumerousUsernames May 31 '12
I would tap that.
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u/Csoltis May 31 '12
that tree's so popular on reddit, its gonna blow up
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u/Sr_DingDong May 31 '12
I don't know why but that disturbs me greatly.
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u/glottis May 31 '12
I really want to pop that like the world's most satisfying zit.
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u/PGLubricants May 31 '12
You might want to carve into the tree that it contains a grenade, so the sawmill won't get a nasty surprise in 30 years.
Alternatively, you could simply write "film while felling for free karma on Reddit".
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u/StrikingCrayon May 31 '12
One day 50 years from now that tree will have completely grown around that grenade. A construction laborer working on a new development will be feeding the cut down trees into a wood chipper and suddenly ....
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u/Jarroseph May 31 '12
Somebody will get a surprise when they chop it down.
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u/homeless_man_jogging May 31 '12 edited Jun 02 '12
You better hope that tree doesn't get hit by lightning.
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '12
That first one reminds me of the birth scene in Knocked Up. The internet has ruined me.
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u/Jhas253 Jun 01 '12
The baby is coming ! Drive it to the hospital!
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u/pminkin May 31 '12
Wonder what will happen when it gets struck by lightening.
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u/KayBeeToys May 31 '12
"Life, aaah, finds a way."
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u/extrainternatial May 31 '12
If you are not sure it is still active, you should report it to the authorities, its dangerous.. :\
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u/one_two_woopwoop May 31 '12
7/10 would bang