Tanks For Nothing, Say Swiss Frisbee Players
Two Swiss students on holiday played frisbee with an object they found on a beach - unaware it was a live land mine. Lukas Aider, 20, and Christoph Kurz, 19, were swimming in the Danube in Budapest when they found the mine and began their potentially lethal game. An alert lifeguard stopped them and immediately called the police. A bomb squad then arrived to identify the object, which turned out to be an old Soviet anti-tank mine, weighing six kilograms.
FOOTNOTE: They got the flight of their lives.
14 comments:
I bet they were soon "russian" off the beach after that!
No worries, Anti tank mines require at large amount of weight to detonate, unless it's been near sea water...oh wait
Well, David, they could have gone swimming in Sydney:
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man tumbled into a bed of crocodiles and was forced to scurry up a tree where he stayed for seven days before being rescued by a military helicopter.
"Every night, I was stalked by two crocs who would sit at the bottom of the tree staring up at me," David George, 53, an outback cattle farmer told Reuters. "All I could see was two sets of red eyes about six metres away from the tree."
George said he survived on two sandwiches and tied himself to the tree so he wouldn't fall out while sleeping.
Eventually, he said he built a bed between two branches out of leaves, where he spent much of the time dozing, writing a letter to his son and praying to Aboriginal spirits before an Australian army helicopter eventually plucked him to safety.
George's plight started after he was thrown from his horse into a crocodile-infested swamp, he told local media.
After seven long nights, George said he ventured out of the thick scrub, where he was spotted by a helicopter involved in the search for him.
Darwin award nominees...
Are ya' sure it wasn't rehearsal for the NEXT Simpson's movie???
D'-OH!!!
Crap... that's just scary!
Catmoves posted an interesting comment about Swimming in Australia, however at least David George was aware of the danger... sounds like these two were completely oblivious!
G'day Ruth,
You stole the limelight with that one!
Boom, boom!
Keep smiling
David
G'day Hammer,
Oh, no, salt water, you say! Put that mine away, Brian, er, Brine ....
Keep smiling
David
Hi Catmoves,
I thought that story might have caught your attention. The guy was actually up in Far North Queensland. Great story - I actually posted a link to a Reuters video clip about 10 days ago, featuring an interview with him.
Keep smiling
David
Hi FHB,
Yeah, no doubt about that!
Keep smiling
David
Hi Bruno,
Must been Homer and Ned ...
Keep smiling
David
Hi Steph,
I'm not sure I'd try playing frisbeee with something that weighed 6kg .....
Keep smiling
David
after that they could have had more holes in them than a block of Swiss cheese... kind of suitable really.
How the heck does one fling a 6-kg "frisbee", anyway?
Having the mine go off might have been the only way to relieve the stress pain on the shoulder joint.
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