Monday, January 05, 2009
Denver Post Gets it Wrong. Rocky Gets it Right. Just Sayin’.
As reported, confusingly, by the Denver Post:
A man going through the personal effects of his grandfather on Friday found a Korean War-era mortar that was later destroyed by the Northeast Regional Bomb Squad, the Weld County Sheriff’s Office said today.
I saw this first and wondered why anyone would get uptight over an empty metal tube. Seemed a bit paranoid.
A Colorado man sorting through his late grandfather’s belongings found a bombshell, sort of: A live mortar round from the Korean War era.
A bomb squad detonated the shell at an undisclosed site. No one was hurt.
Given that the mortar round is the bit that goes boom, suddenly the story made a good bit more sense. Nice to see that at least one of the papers can report the facts correctly.
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Too bad it’s the paper that is going under.
I grew up with the Rocky and I’ll be sad to see it go. Truth is that newspapers are running out of time (at least in their current format) and the Rocky has been failing in slow motion for a very long time. What is a shame is that they couldn’t find a way to recreate themselves for the digital age, but that’s a tough transition.
Those things were popular as lamp bases in the 50s. The bomb squad probably popped some C4 in the bomb tank with it by way of SOP, and gave it to one of the cops to make into a lamp.