Para Handy Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 It would seem there has been a Bomb scare in Gibblestone Scalloway. Police everywhere. and a grenade is being rumoured in the village Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logie-Bear Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Any more on this? I havent heard anything and i am only along the valley! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 More importantly, anybody heard a big bang yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Any more on this? I havent heard anything and i am only along the valley! Try Facebook, plenty of first hand accounts on there. Shetlink can wait until it's a genuine news story, and even then, it may be invasive to discuss whatever it was about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para Handy Posted October 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 I hear this morning, that two hand grenades have been found in the Gibblestone House. It was used in the war time for something or other so.I suspect there from from WWII Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 odd considering the interior was completely ripped out to create the flats, you'd have thought they'd have been found during the renovations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kittybee Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Well I stay right in da middle o scalloway and I havna heard or seen a thing!Not ta say its no true though..... but chances are its just a tennis ball, not a grenade and its just a rumour wi aa da usual "bits" added on.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crofter Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Dredged up by a scallop boat, removed last night to a "safe" location packed in sand... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooter Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 SIBC said 2 grenades were dredge up by someone after scallops and taken home. Police have taken them to await disposal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicky Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Haha it's on Shetland News now, poor guy. Although I there are a lot of people I can think of who would have done exactly the same thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EM Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 I vaguely remember a related tale involving grenades in a Shetland shed. The gist of it was that some guy (possibly from Tingwall) was heating up tar for his roof. Later, at the bottom of the tub a "lump" was encountered. This turned out to be a grenade (or possibly more than one, I don't remember) which had presumably fallen into the tub from a shelf in the shed. Apparently (and very fortunately) that grenade had been for training, so no explosive content or detonator. Anyone know the correct details? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Back in the day of muzzle loaders and whatnot, and old damp earth floors, poorly plastered walls and straw roofed houses. A certain distant relative was known to dry out his gunpowder on the mantlepiece on occasion, when it had gotten damp wherever else in the house it was usualy stored. To fully appreciate the risk, you have an open peat fire burning away happily on the floor, and little more than 3 or 4 feet directly above it you had a wooden board/shelf fixed to the wall on which the gunpowder was put. Whenever anybody stirred the fire with the poker, a cloud or sparks etc erupted from it, some went up the lum, those that didn't tended to either end up on the floor, or the mantlepiece. Thankfully he didn't blow anyone up, but the rest of the family threw him out of the house when he started making habit of it, and refused to stop it when they asked him to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para Handy Posted October 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 odd considering the interior was completely ripped out to create the flats, you'd have thought they'd have been found during the renovations. Sorry you lot the full story is something more simpleA idiot took them home after dredging them up while fishingWhy he did not throw them back over the side I don’t no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icepick239 Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Well I stay right in da middle o scalloway and I havna heard or seen a thing!Not ta say its no true though..... but chances are its just a tennis ball, not a grenade and its just a rumour wi aa da usual "bits" added on.... Mmmm, if those are tennis balls then I am taking up golf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Why he did not throw them back over the side I don’t no Well, we'd have to go through a similar hysteria when they were brought up again.. Maybe even worse, knowing It was the ones that were recently placed!.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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