Tubular bombs? Teachers should not imrpovise.
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A mine awareness team in Uganda were horrified to find an unexploded bomb being used as a bell when they visited a school to teach children how to spot bombs, a local newspaper reported.
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE76308...
The Anti-Mine Network organisation saw teachers banging the bomb with stones to call children to lessons in a 700-pupil school in a rural area, the Daily Monitor said.
"Its head was still active, which means that if it is hit by a stronger force, it would explode instantly and cause untold destruction in the area," Wilson Bwambale, coordinator of the organisation, told the newspaper.
Bwambale said they would explode it in a cordoned off area.
The Ugandan military has fought two rebel insurgencies over the last two decades and mines and bombs still litter former battlefields around the country.
This is the second bomb that the Anti-Mine Network have found in a Ugandan school in the last six months. Another was found being used by children at lunchtime as a toy and put away in a storeroom during lessons.
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE76308...
The Anti-Mine Network organisation saw teachers banging the bomb with stones to call children to lessons in a 700-pupil school in a rural area, the Daily Monitor said.
"Its head was still active, which means that if it is hit by a stronger force, it would explode instantly and cause untold destruction in the area," Wilson Bwambale, coordinator of the organisation, told the newspaper.
Bwambale said they would explode it in a cordoned off area.
The Ugandan military has fought two rebel insurgencies over the last two decades and mines and bombs still litter former battlefields around the country.
This is the second bomb that the Anti-Mine Network have found in a Ugandan school in the last six months. Another was found being used by children at lunchtime as a toy and put away in a storeroom during lessons.
Talking of improvisation:
I was an instructor at the district police training centre at Ashford in 1984. We had a visual aid for assistance in class when we were describing cannabis plants. Someone organised a visit from the Kent drugs unit and blow me, you'd have thought by their reaction that we were cultivating the bloody plant. They demanded that it go.
The chap who was growing the visual aid was not one for instructions so instead of the compost heap he placed it amongst other plants in the inglenook outside the commandant's office where it was watered on a daily basis.
This sergant was not, as you may have guessed, one of the favourites of the commandant but as a mark of his respect the skipper asked the comm if he'd agree to a photograph of them shaking hands when the lad returned to his division.
The location of the picture was outside the comm's office. In front of the inglenook as a matter of fact. The picture shows the skipper with a knowing smile and the comm completely oblivious of the cannabis plant between them.
I was an instructor at the district police training centre at Ashford in 1984. We had a visual aid for assistance in class when we were describing cannabis plants. Someone organised a visit from the Kent drugs unit and blow me, you'd have thought by their reaction that we were cultivating the bloody plant. They demanded that it go.
The chap who was growing the visual aid was not one for instructions so instead of the compost heap he placed it amongst other plants in the inglenook outside the commandant's office where it was watered on a daily basis.
This sergant was not, as you may have guessed, one of the favourites of the commandant but as a mark of his respect the skipper asked the comm if he'd agree to a photograph of them shaking hands when the lad returned to his division.
The location of the picture was outside the comm's office. In front of the inglenook as a matter of fact. The picture shows the skipper with a knowing smile and the comm completely oblivious of the cannabis plant between them.
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