Ugandan school found using bomb as bell
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[quote user="Reuters"]KAMPALA (Reuters) - 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.
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.[/quote]This was the second bomb is six months. Shouldn't they by now have taught the school teachers and children how to identify explosive devices?
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If you live in Africa*, don't you grow up around bombs and guns?
*) except for the very north and very south
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@Zecc said:
This was the second bomb is six months. Shouldn't they by now have taught the school teachers and children how to identify explosive devices?[/quote][quote user="Reuters"]KAMPALA (Reuters) - 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.
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.African leaders have much higher priorities, like corruption.
@dhromed said:
If you live in Africa*, don't you grow up around bombs and guns?
*) except for the very north and very south
Bombs, not really. Guns, yes. Electric fences and high walls, hells yes.
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@The_Assimilator said:
@Zecc said:
This was the second bomb is six months. Shouldn't they by now have taught the school teachers and children how to identify explosive devices?[quote user="Reuters"]KAMPALA (Reuters) - 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.
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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.African leaders have much higher priorities, like corruption.
@dhromed said:
If you live in Africa*, don't you grow up around bombs and guns?
*) except for the very north and very south
Bombs, not really. Guns, yes. Electric fences and high walls, hells yes.
[/quote]
Actually bombs are common in middle-east shopping centers and in outdoor markets.
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Shouldn't they by now have taught the school teachers and children how to identify explosive devices?
A mine awareness team... visited a school to teach children how to spot bombs
Isn't that exactly what they were working on doing?
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@dhromed said:
If you live in [b]America*[/b], don't you grow up around bombs and guns?
*) [b]especially in[/b] the very north and very south
FTFY
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@frits said:
@dhromed said:
If you live in America*, don't you grow up around bombs and guns?
*) especially in the
very north andvery southFTFY
Meh, FTFY
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Sounds like a good bell to me. If people don't hear it, you keep banging it harder and harder and eventually they will.
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Have you ever heard of Alaska?
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@Zecc said:
This was the second bomb is six months. Shouldn't they by now have taught the school teachers and children how to identify explosive devices?[quote user="Reuters"]
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.[/quote]
Welcome to WTF World Edition! The school teachers undoubtedly reasoned: "We've been using this as a bell for two years now, and it's never caused any trouble. Why should we stop now just because you consultants think there's a problem with it."
Does this attitude sound even remotely like anything you've encountered in your own professional dealings?
Incidentally, I hope the Anti-Mine Network at least supplied a substitute bell for the school to use. Otherwise the teachers are really going to resent their interference.
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@Sutherlands said:
@frits said:
@dhromed said:
If you live in America*, don't you grow up around bombs and guns?
*) especially in the very north and very south
FTFY
Meh, FTFY
FTFY, AK definately means growing up around that stuff
