karajorma is quite right - the first thing to do in such an incident is to smack each and every perpetrator on the noggin and say
Now don't do it again!
I mean, we have reports of children digging up old hand grenades at the beach, and thinking they've found a great new toy - that's quite worrying.
But what's more worrying is a group of grown up and supposedly intelligent people placing an artillery shell in their home, and surrounding it with their family and friends.
If a friend of mine burnt his hand on a hot oven, for example, I'd make sure they were OK, but I'd also laugh at them and say "that's what you get, dumbass".
A bloke I know went round a blind corner on his bike and got hit by a bus. That wasn't especially funny. What we found most amusing, however, was when the exact same thing happened to him again a week later. Oh, how we were laughing.
Frankly, ignorance is one thing, but these people knew it was an artillery shell. And they presumably knew that such objects tend to explode. It's when people insist on injuring themselves through downright stupidity that we laugh. Here's a quote from the SimCity 3K news ticker:
From the desk of Wise Guy Sammy: history laughs at many people who deserve to be laughed at
I guessed that you might take exception to this thread, Razor, since relatively speaking it's just down the road from you, but seriously man - lighten up a little
