• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    There’s 1,000 jokes that can be made in sure, but in the US I once found a grenade while magnet fishing and called a guy my parents know who is a cop. The moment I realized what it was, I told my friend to run to the end of the bridge, and I gently laid it on the pile of rope I was using.

    They have a whole bomb squad that’s about 30 minutes away at full speed, and they rolled up with their trailer, a guy in a suit came over to the bridge and placed it in a box, put the box in the trailer, and one dull THUNK later all I had to do was sign a paper saying this is where I found it.

    I specifically called my parents friend rather than 911 because I had read too many accounts of cops showing up and attempting to arrest the magnet fisher for any number of reasons.

    UXO is no fucking joke, don’t for a second think you can handle it without training. You really have no idea what explosive compound they used or what it’s stability level is after being exposed to the elements.

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      2 months ago

      Why wouldn’t you have just loaded it into the transporter buffer and then wiped the pattern (or beamed it harmlessly into space), Mr O’Brien?

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        2 months ago

        Unfortunately due to some temporal shenanigans, I’m stuck here without so much as a self-sealing stem bolt.

        No transporter system.

        Besides, why would I want to wipe my pattern buffer prisoners guests experiments?