A PennDot archaeological team arrived at a dig under I-95 this morning to find two men drinking beer and sitting on a 20-foot-long torpedo they apparently had found hours earlier in the Delaware River.
The archaeologists called police and the Bomb Squad evacuated the immediate area at Richmond and Cumberland Streets, near I-95.
The torpedo with the number 56 on its side was inert, but the men who found it will not be able to keep it because it is military ordnance.
Charles Metzger, a PennDot spokesman, pieced together the following story.
The team arrived at 7 a.m. and saw the pair sitting on the torpedo, beers in hand, on land between the dig and a Conrail yard.
The two were waiting for a third companion who had gone off to get a vehicle to take the torpedo away.
They told the archaeological team they had found the torpedo in the river and spent something like six hours dragging it about 1,000 feet to the work site.
Police said the torpedo weighed 800 to 1,000 pounds.
No charges are expected, police said. The bomb squad removed the torpedo from the site, but not until it fell once from the claw of the lift device used to load the metal tube into a truck.
Woha, woah woah... How fucking blacked out do you have to be to drag a 1,000 lb torpedo almost a 1/4 of a mile without knowing its 'going to blow you into pink mist' status? Unless you were a member of a bomb squad or military ordinance expert, why the hell would you even attempt this?
The true gem of this story is the PennDot crews found them at 7a.m. slamming beers sitting on this thing... Stay classy Philly
k-mac weighs in:
k-mac weighs in:
These guys must have been crushed on the job. Who carries a half ton piece of metal anywhere? I don't care if it was made of gold and I could get my rocks out with it like those freaks with the balloons (insert link). It's a thousand fuckin pounds! To each his own I guess.
Love how they quietly dropped (no pun intended, but totally intended)* the "The bomb squad removed the torpedo from the site, but not until it fell once from the claw of the lift device used to load the metal tube into a truck." Like how do you explain that one if it somehow exploded when you dropped it? "Uh, yea, Chief, we kind of dropped the torpedo and killed everyone here," probably wouldn't go over real well.
*Totally stole the no pun intended line from Pres, but I love saying it so don't tell me I stole it in the comment section idiots
P.S. - I imagine DoC could find some use for this massive shaft...
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