Not to mention “wicked” and “treachery”. Maybe it was ghostwritten by Elmer Fudd, in which case it was “tweachery”.
That’s what I was thinking was re-assuring about DG’s situation: nitro would be leaching out into the dirt, which, though not as good as wood pulp or gelatin, would still be dispersing, absorbing, and … feeding the yucca.
The best fertilizer for yucca is time-release nitrogen one. It will boost the growth of the plant and encourage the blooms to form.
I swear, when I first read that bit, I read it as:
The best fertilizer for yucca is time-release nitrogen one. It will boost the growth of the plant and encourage the booms to form.
Like that plant in Iron Man 3 that exploded when you cut the leaves? 
It just might boost the whole plant fifty feet into the air.
Yeah, but he mentioned it was . . .
The bold part indicated to me that it was still in a container, not leaching into the soil.
Tripler
No boom today. Maybe tomorrow. . .
The annoying part is that he also buried a jar of Morgan silver dollars–on a section of land that was sold (he originally had more than 40 acres here) and the new neighbor found it. Why couldn’t I get that?
Depending on how much you like (or don’t) that new neighbor, you might really prefer they’d found the bottle of recrystalized nitroglycerine. 
Oh, I hated that neighbor. But the sale and find happened before I was born, and the neighbor has been rotten meat in a hole for years now.
So I guess “BIP” is not merely the sound it makes?
Depends on how far away you are!
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I have ‘up close and personal’ videos, naturally.
So, we are still creating WWII casualties 75 years after the event? Wow.
I would think that the devices would have either exploded or become inert over that much time, especially if they are heavily corroded.
Another fun catastrophe found in junkyards is radiation contamination from improperly disposed of medical equipment. A typical scenario is a bunch of junkers cut open a heavy metal container to find a pretty blue powder inside, or something similar. Goiânia is one of the better known, but there have been a bunch.
So…yeah. It’s a good idea to have some idea what’s inside before attempting to slice something open.
It’s my information that farmers are instructed to leave them on field margins near roads or designated points to facilitate the military later coming by to pick the things up. So your characterization is in error - the farmers are following established protocols for collection and pick up. And they’re not digging them up for fun, they’re finding them when going about their farming business.
Is leaving your garbage at a designated point for your weekly city pickup making your trash “Somebody Else’s Problem” or is it you following established practices to facilitate waste collection in your area?
Sadly, @Kobal2 hasn’t posted in nearly a year. Last post was in April 2020, when the pandemic was about to hit France hard. I hope he’s okay.
Me, too - this past year you never know if someone stopped coming by because they moved on to other stuff, or something more dire might have occurred.
Certainly the normal firing mechanism is probably corroded to inoperative. Heck, it didn’t work back in 1940-whenever either, so decent bet it won’t work today.
The explosive fill on the other hand may be as good as new, or may have become less stable and more sensitive. So just as big a boom and on an ever-increasingly hair trigger. Yipes!
I’ll just note that there’s an old, old urban legend about that, and that the New York Post is not the most reputable of newspapers.