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Skriven 2007-03-23 08:32:55 av Glen Jamieson
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Hello Hap,

 -> chainsaw!  Unexploded shells and bombs were frequently unearthed when
 -> digging ditches for pipes and cables, so they would be piled into a
 -> front-end loader bucket and taken to a quarry for the Australian army
 -> to detonate.  To my surprise no one had been killed doing that.
 -> 
 HN> When I was in the navy I spent quite a bit of time on the Island of
 HN> Guam. It  too was the site of some very heavy fighting and a whole lot
 HN> of ordinance  had been shot, dropped and thrown at it. When I was there
 HN> in the early 70's  there was still so much unexploded ordinance on
 HN> Orote (ah wrote eee) point  that it had simply been fenced off as too
 HN> dangerous to even try to reclaim.  Often during the day or night we'd
 HN> hear a big explosion from the point...could 
 HN> be that some small animal had triggered one of the old shells/bombs or
 HN> whatever, or simply time and the unstable nature of explosive
 HN> compounds. I  cannot imagine simply tossing one of those into a front
 HN> end loader bucket!  chat with you soon

[I'm leaving for Darwin today, and don't know when I will be able to
get in contact again.  It could be 3 days, or 3 weeks.]

The unexploded shells and bombs in PNG still result in occasional
deaths.  People have unknowingly lit a cooking fire on the beach,
directly over a shell, which exploded.  Some others deliberately put a
shell in a fire, pointing it out to sea, thinking that would be safe.
(!)
When I was in Lae some of my workmen dug up a dump of rusty old
"daisy-cutter" anti-personnel mines; I found one of them using a power
wire brush to clean up the outside of one so it looked better.  That
was one of the very few times I raised my voice!

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: PNG Coconut Cream
 Categories: Sauces, Vegetables, Png
      Yield: 1 servings
 
           Coconuts; fresh
           Water; 1c/coconut
 
  To make coconut cream - (which is used in cooking in Papua New
  Guinea):
  
  Scrape the flesh away from the coconut shell - (so that it resembles
  desiccated coconut) for each scraped coconut add one cup of water to
  the scraped mix.
  
  Squeeze the mix between your hands and strain the resulting cream
  into your prepared dish or save for later.
  
  From: <http://www.michie.net/pnginfo/recipe1.html> Snagged by Kevin
  JCJD Symons, 28th January 2007
 
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