Bomb Squad Kilcoole Beach

Cheeky Chops · 11-04-2011 03:33PM #1

Anyone know what was going on? Bomb squad, motorbike cops, traffic cops, army .. loads of them. Mad! Apparently there was a bomb in a house but that came secondhand.

Son of Jack · 11-04-2011 04:05PM

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Cheeky Chops · 11-04-2011 04:11PM

Thanks but why were they down the beach with their lights flashing an hour ago?!!

Rasmus · 11-04-2011 05:03PM

Son of Jack, do you know that both links refer to the same incident? Cheeky Chops, keep us posted! Maybe post in the Greystones forum though for more web traffic?

Cheeky Chops · 11-04-2011 05:11PM

Ok apparently the one down the beach was a second world war "object" that they believed at the time may have been a bomb hence all the units out.

Rasmus · 11-04-2011 05:12PM

But it wasn't then? What is it? : )

Cheeky Chops · 11-04-2011 05:14PM

Well I heard it was a buoy from that period but you couldn't mistake a buoy for a bomb could you?

That's not a very sexy story either .. bomb squad find buoy...:D

Rasmus · 11-04-2011 05:25PM

Well maybe not a bomb, but didn't sea-mines look a little like buoys when they were jutting out of the water?

lconmara · 11-04-2011 08:41PM

it was most likely an anti-submarine device from ww2. looked pretty much like a sea mine... the guards were called for advice when it was dug up and they decided it was too risky to deem it safe and called the bomb squad. It took them three hours to determine what it was - it wasn't obvious to them either that it wasn't a bomb they even x-rayed it.

Cheeky Chops · 11-04-2011 08:49PM

Thanks ....

very sexy reply

lconmara · 11-04-2011 09:12PM

huh?

Alun · 12-04-2011 09:08AM

lconmara wrote: »

it was most likely an anti-submarine device from ww2. looked pretty much like a sea mine... the guards were called for advice when it was dug up and they decided it was too risky to deem it safe and called the bomb squad. It took them three hours to determine what it was - it wasn't obvious to them either that it wasn't a bomb they even x-rayed it.

What's an 'anti-submarine device' that isn't a mine?

Cheeky Chops · 12-04-2011 09:33AM

lconmara wrote: »

huh?

I was just joking ..

lconmara · 12-04-2011 12:58PM

Alun wrote: »

What's an 'anti-submarine device' that isn't a mine?

there were lots of them, this yoke most likely held a chain net that would stop the subs in their tracks...

lconmara · 12-04-2011 01:00PM

Cheeky Chops wrote: »

I was just joking ..

i reread my answer, couldn't find anything sexy about it. must just be the air about me...

Alun · 12-04-2011 01:41PM

lconmara wrote: »

there were lots of them, this yoke most likely held a chain net that would stop the subs in their tracks...

I knew about the chains, saw them many times on B&W WW2 films on the telly, but didn't think there'd be much else to them apart from the chains themselves. What would it have been then, a float of some sort that the chains hung down from?

Jammyc · 13-04-2011 02:14PM

lconmara wrote: »

they even x-rayed it.

Today's Bray People talked about this story.

They quoted the following

Bray People 13th April 2011 wrote:

"They even X-rayed it" said a source

That's journalism there.

Bomb Squad Kilcoole Beach

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