Comments on: 140-Yr.-Old Cannonball Kills Civil War Fan

Va. Collector Died While Disarming 19th-Century Ammunition In His Driveway

[rushlimpdrug]

"I''ll give you my cannonball when you take it from my cold, dead hands!"

[nothappyatall]

Best to just ignore them and dont feed their thirst for opposition, for they will never change their viewpoint. Thats what they are payed for.

Posted by kaviz

PS: I have said before I dont give a dam if people reply to my comments, I''m not here to get replies, I''m here to post MY opinions

[voltaire333]

He sounds like a far more decent and engaging individual than the bleaters and stone-throwers on these pages.
Posted by erichsh at 04:21 PM : May 03, 2008

Calm down, Esther, you know it''s bad for your heart to get so riled up.

[nothappyatall]

Kaviz, Newster is not only a cold dude, hes a classless piece of garbage.
Posted by effjay4

Why, cause I tell it like it IS? You right wingers want it all both ways, first you come blasting in telling us about all this great paradise in heaven with a perfect god and yadda yadda yadda that perfect people go to when dead, THEN you go "oh the POOR guy he was killed" so according to YOUR logic, you''d rather he stay HERE in purgatory (compared to a perfect paradise where everyone lives forever, no disease etc it IS) for the next 50 years years instead of going to this perfect place you claim.

He no doubt died INSTANTLY and didnt feel a thing, guess you''d rather he had a heart attack or stroke and lay in a hospital bed the next 50 years paralized in a coma like Terri Schiavo?
So, given the fact you mourn for a guy who left purgatory for a perfect paradise instead of rejoycing, that says you really DONT believe there is a heaven or that he didnt go there, which IS it?

[nothappyatall]

Im sure newster is only one of the names he goes under on these pages. The hired nut jobs flip around day to day to rile emotions and try to stir conflicts. some are pretty good at it, others should be fired by their sponsers. Best to just ignore them and dont feed their thirst for opposition, for they will never change their viewpoint. Thats what they are payed for.

Posted by kaviz

Wrongo kaviz, I only use THIS name with the 1 or the l depending on which browser I happen to have open when I come in- firefox doesn''t like the scripts in here.
Yer also wrong on your other statements, I''m not some ''hired'' dude, I am my own person and highly opinionated, I also feel free to freely express those opinions with NO mindgames, NO pc rhetoric and no bullchit, what you see is what you get not lies, inuendo or fake- something mighty rare these days with all the PC feel-good garbage people post write or say that we all know is totall BS.

[lewiston14]

Some posters gave me new thoughts on the subject. If its legal or not to go out looking for these things. Around here I dont know ill have to ask. I scuba dive and was diving off shore from an old fort on the great lakes. I think I found a couple of cannon balls least the were round but I figured Ill just leave them. I dont need one to dry up and become a bomb on my desk. Makem me think remember about a year ago some teacher had a WW2 shell on his desk and used it as a bug squasher and it went off. To the combat engineer your right if it was made to explode leave it alone new or 150 years old.

[nothappyatall]

"The more I visit these blogs, the more I become repulsed by the vermin I find here."

Maybe you should hike it on by the fox news or cnn news sites then since we arent good enough for you.

"Just on the last two pages I find: (1) The guy was an idiot, (2) He deserved to die and (3) People who believe in God are idiots."

1) he was, 2)maybe, 3) people who believe in mindless fairytales like a Santa Claus in the sky ARE idiots, as surely as those who believe they can fly and jump off a building.


" Ill add (4): what a bunch of callous, pompous, self-righteous blowhards you all are. The man pursued his hobby and love of history with a passion, and was killed in an accident that even the experts cited in this article agreed was extraordinary."

Which wouldn''t have happened had he left unstable high EXPLOSIVES alone and stuck to bullet casings, coins and other stuff. Even explosive experts with loads of training and safety equipment are killed.


Posted by erichsh

[rudy654-2009]

I''''m surprised this kind of activity is legal. And, yes, he was an idiot. Sorry if it offends some of the other posters to point out the truth.



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Posted by cdfoxtrot at 05:35 PM

I believe that what he was doing is not legal. At least in my part of the country it isn''t. For example, some boy scouts came upon some old army munitions from a particularly tragic war with the Indians. They took a bunch of stuff home, called the local newspaper, which reported on their find, etc. They even had an old saddle with food stuffs still in it. At any rate, they got into serious trouble with the government. They were told that they were supposed to report the find and leave it in place. The reason for this is so that archeaologists have a chance to examine the area first.

[kaviz]

Swwils, you say you planted explosives, did you also plant timers to go off at later dates that some family would be killed if they took it home as a decoration? I''m not trying to be mean here. War is he11 no matter what side you''re on.

[cdfoxtrot]

It was totally irresponsible for this person to play around with this thing on his driveway. The shrapnel that hit a home "a quarter-mile" away could have killed someone else. I''m surprised this kind of activity is legal. And, yes, he was an idiot. Sorry if it offends some of the other posters to point out the truth.