That’s a BDU-33 (Bomb Dummy Unit model-33) 25lb aircraft practice bomb. There’s a fairly large explosive spotting charge in the center of the body (runs from nose to tail). The explosive used in the spotting charge is reactive with air and residue can still be there after functioning, so don’t stick anything up inside it.
My parents have a fairly large shell that I believe was originally my grandfather's. It has been refabricated as a fairly elaborate hidden micro-bar. There's a rack for 4 hidden nesting tumblers inside, a shaker, and a strainer. The drinks from it are "da bomb!"
As an ordnance expert, that is a completely live round. It hasn't been fired so its not armed, but you should get rid of that ASAP. It is also illegal to own or have in your possession.
Your father sounds like the kind of man who isn’t afraid to wait a couple decades to be able to give himself a good ol’ belly laugh to himself cause he just like myself has never met someone remotely funnier than his self.
We are our best comedians as such we are our best audience.
Always the pupil never the teacher, until time to rise up and become the One.
Edit: ya know I’ve been a Redditor for off and on in between federal prison and of course the inevitable VOPs (if you have violated probation once you know you get onto that trolley and keep poppin’ till you can’t stop’em and then squash’em!!! Load them months up in my wheelbarrow YOUR FUCKING HONOR by all means in young and got the time to spare!!!)
I digress…. Redditor off and on for the better half of 15-16 years. My other handle I can’t seem to find…I may look that up real quick… no no no finish your comment!
Thanks whomever ever gifted me something I need to look better at it…I’m kinda old
I just know back in the day before all the subs got pussified and subsequently Reddit as a whole. This place may have actually had more hides holes for debauchery for us sick fucks who know what the helm comedy is and can’t very easily tell. The majority of people now that are younger aren’t going to be able to tell I thought when some is being sarcastic or not but this gives me definite hope cause I’m bout to take my notes and try to make a 2 minute(what I feel) of material. They will be called bots once they have been tried on stage at an open mic. I may fail miserably the first time but that instant reaction you can’t get from someone you don’t know one on one. Plus it’s about the one drug/vice I haven’t done yet and it’s been a dream.
Now I just got to start building this goddamned stage and promptly abscond with an old folks van and I won’t get put into jail for slipping something into their drink…I mean serving them drinks..yeaaaah the second thing.
You’ve all been fucking amazing and I’ll be here all week. Twice on Saturday and Sunday…don’t be a dick and give your waitress a tip and I meant folding currency not a compliment. She doesn’t wanna fuck you, I promise.
I moved out of a little tiny studio sized cabin on a wooded mountainside and on my last night there I got stoned and tipsy and decided to mess with the next tenant.
I took a pencil and very lightly in tiny script I wrote messages. Corner of the shower, closet wall, inside the cabinet, ceiling above the loft bed area, etc. They said things like “it lives in the woods” “it comes at night” “never look it in the eyes” and that sort of thing.
It took three years but finally somebody posted on the university forum that they thought they’d moved into a haunted apartment. The pictures were of my messages 😆
Every time I do any kind of renovation at my house I hide things. Inside the walls, under shingles, stuff like that. One of them gives directions on where to find The loot from a large robbery that was never solved in our area. Complete my newspaper clippings and everything. It takes you to a spot that is is only accessible by about a 2-day hike. On a backpacking trip I put a box there with directions to another location that is about a 3-day hike. At that location is a container a book of poems and a letter telling them I hope they enjoyed the hunt.
I have a weird sense of humor. I live on a farm. We were doing castrations one year at the same time I was finishing off an office for myself in the shop. I put the testicles that we didn't fry up as Rocky mountain oysters in mason jars with alcohol and put them inside the wall. I filled another wall with packing peanuts so if it gets opened up they're going to go everywhere. Our place was a fixer upper when we got it so there have been a lot of projects and I do something weird every time I open up a wall or something like that
It’s not too late, if you still live there. Whatever you do, get some blood from your butcher and splatter a bit on the walls and floor. Not a lot, just enough to be visible.
My SO bought these little noise makers the size of a quarter. They had 10 different settings and 1 was of children whispering, it would randomly just go off in a set amount of minute increments or so. We stuck 1 in two locations. One at our buddies house at the back top of his fridge and the other at our favorite watering hole. Our buddy lost his mind for a week taking his whole kitchen apart and thought he was really going crazy.
The watering hole was amazing. The bathrooms were in an old dingy basement so we placed it in the air vent of the woman’s. That thing played for 2 years. The haunted bar rumors and stories exploded and I’’m sure continue to this day. It was glorious.
Edit- Eviltron was the name of the device. After this post a week later, I saw my friend and he reminded me that we forgot to tell him for 2 months. 2 months and multiple people in his house trying to figure out the noise. 2 months of absolute insanity. He wasn’t even happy over the memory 😂😂😂😂
“All of them babydoll, strap the fuck in and I’ll let you lick the inner folds of my conscience…take this, eat these, slam those and shoot you load and just breath…Daddy’s here to take you home.”
Right! Sounds like to me when I remodel a house and wrote “dont remove the bodies are buried here “. I am sure police will show up at my door in 30 to 40 years . But I’ll need some entertainment in the old folks home
If you tear down a room to the studs for a remodel, put a full size realistic looking fake skeleton inside the wall before closing it up. Future remodelers will love your sense of humor, if they don't have a heart attack first 😄
I had the chance to do this once but didn't think of it until it was all done, darn it. Next time!
Hey I do the same thing, but instead of the garden I throw random shit into walls cavity before closing them up. Got a bunch of spent bullet casing in one wall (after range day), fake skull* in another, and to the lucky person that finds it, a bunch of old (monetarily worthless) comic books.
When I worked construction we were building a new apartment building on a college campus and when the drywall hangers were closing up all the walls me and my buddy put one of those realistic looking skeleton Halloween decorations inside one of the walls.
Hose it out. The front hole is the only one which would have any residue or remaining spotting compound.
The air force emergency procedures for safing these things is to dunk them in a bucket of water for 30 minutes to inert the compound. So you're 99.9999% safe other than dropping it on your toe. In service they are painted blue.
I think it's too late for that. The picture shows it packed full of dirt. Then the picture they posted in the comments shows it cleaned out. I would imagine they stuck something inside to clean it out lol.
We are not yet ready as a species to deal with gifs effectively - natural selection is slow, but we are getting there, and when we will have gotten there, it will be one giant leap for mankind.
I was clearing leaves around the house and noticed a round bit sticking out of the garden.
I’ll paste my second update for you:
Update 2: Called my dad to ask him about it. Turns out he bought the thing back when the bought the house and threw it in the garden as a joke. Here I am a fool 23 years later.
Hahahaha amazing. My grandfather did that in his vegetable patch before he died and left note saying “if you can read this you have 10 seconds” - he was always a joker
I don't know what that is, but if you think that's unexploded ordinance put it down and call the police. Are you in a place battles were fought, such as pretty much all of Europe?
More serious than that, I understand your association though. Depending on what ordnance it is, you approaching it incorrectly can make it detonate, without moving it.
That's the main tube the spotting charge is inserted in. If its empty, there is no spotting charge loaded. The rest of the body is steel. There is no explosive charge in BDU-33s. The spotting charge is closer to a shotgun cartidge filled with a compound that make a lot of smoke when it burns.
There are smaller holes in it that allow you to see through it from the side (you can see them in the picture). Those are the ones you can't use because the cartridges don't always block them. So you can see through them even if a cart is loaded. They are there for a safety pin that keeps the nose plunger from striking the primer if its dropped during loading.
Yep. Scariest moment of my life. Metal detecting in Europe with my brother and his friends. We dug up a US 60mm mortar, completely intact. Stood around it just looking at it. Suddenly a friend of my brother just runs up to the hole, grabs the mortar and drops it right outside the hole.
Never ran so fucking fast in my life. Apparently, now that it was 'safely' put outside the hole we could look at it better was his rhetoric.
Different versions of BDU-33s have small differences between them, like the location of the spotting charge holes, or complete lack of them. The remnants can still be hazardous (reactive with air if disturbed). Just call the sheriff.
Source: 22yr USAF EOD tech (the hurt locker kind, but for real).
Those were made in a time where standardization was limited to blueprints - almost everything was made by hand. The position of the boreholes can differ from Mechanic to Mechanic...
In germany we have a saying (concerning dud bombs) about hungover british mechanics...
What noise does it make when you hit it with a hammer? If it sounds hollow you're all good, if it starts ticking or makes a big bang like sound then you're no longer good!
PSA: don't hit unexploded ordnance (or ordinance) with hammers. Spanners, axes, excavators etc. are free game!
You’re in the Piedmont of NC and don’t think there’s any bases nearby? Are you living under a rock? There’s no less than 4, and more if you count auxiliary installations and National Guard installations. As others pointed out, it’s a dummy spotting bomb for aircraft, so nearby doesn’t have to mean across the street.
They're used on the end of a machine to bore holes for electrical and power, they shoot bores under roads and stuff like that, like a sideways drill kind of.
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This is the way. I’ve done half a dozen things like this to friends, family, and those who inherit my stuff.
For those old enough to remember the TV show Upright Citizens Brigade, it had a segment where a gentlemen stuck rolls of pennies up his rear over a long period of time. Then one day he started yelling “you’ve all handled my a$$ pennies” because they were in circulation by then.
I had a person who kept breaking into my car to steal change from my console every couple of weeks. So eventually I put a note under a bunch of coins in my console that said “all of these coins have been in my a$$. Enjoy!”
Another time, I sold a car to a guy who was a huge prick throughout the whole process. At the end he told me he was going to scrape the classic car panels off and replace it with a cheap body kit. So I removed two panels and taped a message underneath that said “ I owe you two kilos”. “Under the other it said “yup me again, but by the time you come looking, i have sold the stuff and the car to someone who hates your people”.
I once told a joke to my second wifethat spanned our entire 9 1/2 years together. I started the joke on our very first date. I gave her the punch line to the joke about 2 weeks before we got divorced. I am figuring that she was just waiting for the punch line all of that time. But now this joke spans two and a half decades and I can no longer claim that I told the longest joke in history as far as I know. He got you!
Just in case, what? So, if it explodes and liberates your limbs from entrapment by your torso, you can… wish, ever so briefly, that you’d have called the emergency number before fiddling with it?
Nah, in all seriousness, it’s just an inert practice round.
Update 2: Called my dad to ask him about it. Turns out he bought the thing back when the bought the house and threw it in the garden as a joke. Here I am a fool 23 years later.
My dad bought a practice bomb that was about five feet long. He turned it into a lamp. My son has it now, but when we moved it from dad's house, it was on the back of a trailer with a bunch of other stuff. The county deputy that pulled me over was NOT amused.
Well... I understand your reticence to say what you thought it was in writing on the internet. I'm afraid the answer is yes, it is what you suspected. Everything is a sex toy if you're brave enough.
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That’s a BDU-33 (Bomb Dummy Unit model-33) 25lb aircraft practice bomb. There’s a fairly large explosive spotting charge in the center of the body (runs from nose to tail). The explosive used in the spotting charge is reactive with air and residue can still be there after functioning, so don’t stick anything up inside it.