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u/Gordopolis
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To do the right thing when you stumble across a land mine.
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u/b4mmb4mm Mar 27 '23
Why are there land mines in Fon Du Lac Wisconsin?
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u/Frumpy_little_noodle Mar 27 '23
Have you seen the armor plating on the sturgeon there??
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u/Lone_Logan Mar 28 '23
I can’t imagine that there are any.
I’d be quicker to assume there’s more of a possibility of an old car part, piece from manufacturing equipment, or who knows what else before I learn there are old land mines in Wisconsin
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u/RotateTombUnduly Mar 27 '23
Exactly. Most people miss the main point which is that it is highly unlikely that there would numerous landmines in a river in a town in the upper Midwest which has not seen a war in centuries. Makes no sense. The cop was more right than wrong. Reminds me of the people in rural Kentucky who put plastic on their windows because they were afraid of anthrax in 2002.
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u/sonia72quebec Mar 27 '23
With a city actually called Bottom of the Lake, it's kind of ironic that they are getting in trouble for cleaning... the bottom of the lake.
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u/HawkFritz Mar 27 '23
They scraped the bottom of the barrel for that dismissive condescending cop. She's a real bottom feeder.
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u/Upper-Echo-1393 Mar 28 '23
She was busy dealing with some real shit. Can’t be bothered with something as menial as bombs in the lake.
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u/VW_wanker Mar 28 '23
Like arrest poor people with an ounce of weed... Highly dangerous!!!
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u/HintOfAreola Mar 28 '23
"I thought you said 'bong in the lake'. This is a waste of my time."
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u/CatStealingYourGirl Mar 28 '23
Giving a ticket to someone down on their luck and sleeping in their car.
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u/ivebeenabadbadgirll Mar 28 '23
She was just upset that their BAC was below the mandatory .08 required by Wisconsin law.
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u/tnecniv Mar 28 '23
I guess Die Hard 3 would have been over in like 5 minutes if she was on the case.
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u/pktrekgirl Mar 28 '23
Yes. We can all tell she has some serious crime-like shit goin’ down that is extremely urgent. Much more urgent than a bomb in the lake that any old Leinenkugal guzzler can snag with their fishing line this weekend. 🙄
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u/Alpha_Decay_ Mar 28 '23
Oh don't tell me you fell for that act, like she isn't clearly the person behind all of the landmines. She was trying so hard not to call them "meddling kids" right at the end there.
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u/evarigan1 Mar 27 '23
It being Wisconsin, I thought it might mean they actually have a Fondue Lake there.
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u/Buck_Thorn Mar 27 '23
I had no idea that the Fond du Lac bomb squad was so busy!
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u/keestie Mar 27 '23
I had no idea Fond du Lac was so rife with land mines.
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u/spaceisnotthathard Mar 27 '23
Munitions tended to get disposed of in water. This has happened a LOT for a long time. Sometimes dredging results in the munitions being moved around. There are cases of hand grenades showing up in the gravel on peoples drive ways because of this.
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u/APe28Comococo Mar 27 '23 •
Just remember don’t waste their time and keep the potentially hazardous explosives yourself.
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u/Mueryk Mar 27 '23 •
Nah, I think your just supposed to mail it to the police station so they can handle it there. That at least saves them the travel time
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u/bigmachill Mar 27 '23
You joke, but some new guy hooked a LiPo battery up in my team's lab incorrectly and left it over the weekend. We come back to a spicy battery actively smoking on the floor. This battery puffed up so much it fell off of the table with cables still attached.
Anyway, after removing the live leads we contacted the non-emergency university police number posted on the lab door which specifically mentions bombs, hazardous chemicals, fire hazards, etc only to have them show up and tell us to carry the battery to a residence hall across campus since that's where the mailroom was located.
There were words exchanged, explanations given, and light threats regarding the waste of valuable police time which resulted in the bomb carefully delivered (hysterically placed on a half-finished autonomous robot) to a lobby of undergrad college students lol the receptionist was confused about the smoking parcel to say the least
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u/pootinannyBOOSH Mar 28 '23
How dare you expect them to do their literal job!
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u/LowLifeExperience Mar 28 '23
I love how these same idiots will complain about welfare and the only difference is that they show up to a place on a schedule to collect their pay. They do equally nothing.
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u/MonsterMachine13 Mar 28 '23
Disagree, staying on benefits is often a constant and exhausting two-front battle against your disabling circumstance and beaurocracy designed to keep you off benefits
Whereas cops regularly fall upward
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u/FacesOfNeth A Flair? Mar 28 '23
So, when they ask if you are mailing anything explosive, do you just smile, wink and give the finger gun?
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u/lizfromdarkplace Mar 28 '23
This reminded me of an IT Crowd episode lmaooo
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u/MyLifeIsDope69 Mar 28 '23
That show was brilliant and criminally underrated, I wish it was bigger in the US like the office, no one I talk to has seen it!
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u/BADDEST_RHYMES Mar 28 '23
Your lab should have a bucket of sand or some better safety measures if you’re using lipos that can be connected incorrectly. It won’t stop the chemical fire but it will contain it. Horrible smell!
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u/ReZTheGreatest Mar 28 '23
I'm so disappointed in you guys, taking up valuable police time. That was time that could have been spent harassing minorities, or arresting children for jaywalking.
Next time, think before you call the police.
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u/Wiley_Rasqual Mar 28 '23
harassing minorities
It's fond du lac. Let's be realistic.
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u/Capitalist_P-I-G Mar 28 '23
Are you trying to say you'll Fond du Lac of minorities there?
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u/Wiley_Rasqual Mar 28 '23
I'm embarrassed how many times I had to read this out loud to get it
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u/americanmullet Mar 28 '23
Hey! It could have also been used to sexually assault people, drink free coffee, or beat their significant others.
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u/MilkVetch Mar 28 '23
Maybe i'm just drunk, but why do they need you to take the explosive to a mail room?
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u/Beneque79 Mar 27 '23
Just remember to write "Handle with care, explosive of unknow quality inside".
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u/Ascarisahealing Mar 27 '23
“Very deteriorated”
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u/Glittering_knave Mar 28 '23
Did she really want the finders to drive around with a deteriorating bomb in their car? Or just throw it back, I guess? Maybe sell in it on eBay?
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u/Humanoid_ish Mar 27 '23
I can see the SWAT team making time to come and visit you.
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u/HonoraryKrogan Mar 27 '23
And they bring their friends the ATF and FBI! There's pizza and flashbangs, and everyone has a good chuckle at the end of the day.
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u/APe28Comococo Mar 27 '23
I’m like 90% sure everyone that has a BS in chemistry is on a watch list lol
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u/FPSXpert Mar 28 '23 edited Mar 28 '23
Let the kids at their park play with it then if it's not a hazard. If anything happens then I'm sure FDLP will be happy to comment about it.
If that cop can't be bothered then she needs to give that fucking badge and EOD bot controls to someone that can.
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u/LibrarianSocrates Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 28 '23
I suspect that they don't have one but they need to pay to have one turn up from elsewhere.
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u/kfj3000 Mar 27 '23 •
That or there is a bar named City Resources that is losing business every time the bomb squad has to actually go to work.
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u/Adelman01 Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 28 '23
A lot of bomb squads are actually ancillary. So cops in the dept with other roles who train together and deploy together when there is a need.
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u/Invdr_skoodge Mar 27 '23
Having married a teacher this was my assumption. Cops with regular duties that get called to put on the bomb squad hat when needed.
Example: the beta club sponsors, prom committee, morning parking attendant, science lab coordinator, biology department, lab supervisor, all of these people are the same person, my wife.
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u/jeebucus Mar 27 '23
So, it's more like the Bomb Club
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u/SillyFlyGuy Mar 28 '23
The first rule of Bomb Club is we do not take away from City Resources..
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u/BaZing3 Mar 28 '23
We aren't the "Things That Look Like a Bomb" squad. Either be a bomb or don't.
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u/blhd96 Mar 28 '23
Let me put my bomb squad cap on. Yup. Looks very deteriorated. Take em away boys. City resources awastin.
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u/heimdahl81 Mar 27 '23
AFAIK, bomb squads are regional. A long time ago I went to a talk by a bomb squad guy and they covered something like 5 Midwest states. They had their own jet so they could go anywhere quick.
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u/Lawd_Fawkwad Mar 27 '23
That's when they don't just use existing military infastructure.
Cities around big navy bases will often call the Navy's EOD units to do their bomb squad stuff; the city saves money and the sailors get good training out of it.
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u/Boojibs Mar 27 '23
I lived in Appleton for a couple years.
I would've bet the entire Fox Valley greater area was bomb squad free.
Maybe the Mennonites are always up to shit we're not aware of.
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u/DragonfruitOk6901 Mar 27 '23
Wait, we have a bomb squad? Judging by how everybody drives on I41, I'm amazed we even have cops.
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u/Evilaquatica Mar 27 '23
"Ezekiel, steady with that nitroglycerin!! What are you trying to do? Take out the whole farm!?!"
"I am sorry papa, ill be more careful with the demolition charges"
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u/Key_Statistician3293 Mar 27 '23
Right! “Dont waste our time telling us about this possible bomb in this public area we’re busy trying to protect the publ… oh yeaaa lemme call the captain”
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u/candybomberz Mar 28 '23
"It didn't even explode how do you even know it's bomb. Could be an old shoe, looks like a metal shoe to me."
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u/M00SEHUNT3R Mar 27 '23
Well, when it’s in the river it doesn’t exist and no one is responsible for it. Probably have to call the Coast Guard or the Navy for anything in Fond du Lac’s waterways.
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u/Dick-Guzinya Mar 27 '23 •
You think they’re busy, you should see the Neenah bomb squad*
*Im aware that like 3 people will get this joke
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u/Redpsyclone Mar 27 '23
Isn't that where that foundry is?
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u/ive_lost_my_keys Mar 27 '23
Tell me you're from the Midwest without telling me... Every manhole and sewer cover everywhere.
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u/btronica Mar 27 '23
Most of the ones around me in the Boston area that aren’t from the 1800s/early 1900s (the really old ones have dates) say Neenah Foundry. I figured they have a monopoly on the street hole covering business.
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u/GTI-Mk6 Mar 27 '23
I live in one the 20 largest cities in America and know members of the bomb squad. They LOVE getting calls. Free excuse to blow shit up.
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u/Apprehensive-Ad-8541 Mar 27 '23
You're kidding right? They are like the real life version of Vincenzo Santorini
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u/Fit-Let8175 Mar 27 '23
What does she suggest? Before calling 911, maybe test to see whether it is a landmine using a hammer?
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u/kaliveraz Mar 27 '23
Hit the landmine with a hammer, if it doesn't expload then it is safe, if it does you won't need to call 911.
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u/garandguy1 Mar 27 '23
It's a foolproof test, or maybe a test for fools
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u/Loosenut2024 Mar 28 '23
I'll give the cop the hammer. No lady, go on! I wont take away the fun from you!
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u/political_bot Mar 28 '23
I get the sentiment of "goddamn it guys, this is the third time you've magnet fished a landmine out of the river. It's not technically illegal, but stop making us deal with explosives and just leave them in the river"
On the other hand, that's a fucking explosive and needs to be disposed of properly.
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u/Pushbrown Mar 28 '23
Why are there fucking land mines at the bottom of a lake in Wisconsin anyways lol
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u/Shinikama Mar 28 '23
Because the way people used to dispose of anything from ordinance to random chemicals was 'toss it in the water so it isn't your problem anymore.' We're talking up to the early 2000s in some places, and some people never stopped.
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u/KittenTablecloth Mar 28 '23
I noticed a posted sign at a lake in Illinois last summer that talked about how far out from shore you had to be to dump various waste. Maybe it was an outdated sign never taken down but I was really surprised to see what I would consider littering advertised like that.
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u/JoshJorges Mar 27 '23
Nah. Place it on the road to see if it still works
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u/BlueMagpieRox Mar 28 '23
Mail it to the police station oughta get their attention…
Just kidding, please don’t ever do this.
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u/deez_nuts_ha_gotem Mar 28 '23
I believe what the police department had already suggested multiple times was "please stop fucking magnet fishing here" because they kept calling about hazardous shit they found
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u/Fit-Let8175 Mar 28 '23 edited Mar 28 '23
They can tell them 1,000 times and until there are signs prohibiting magnet fishing, personal dredging or fishing of any kind, law enforcement's hands are tied.
Why is it so difficult for people to understand that police cannot enforce laws that don't exist? Those magnet fishers are not breaking any laws. It doesn't make them right, but it makes them not obligated to listen to police telling them to not do what they do if they are not breaking the law.
There needs to be authorized signs prohibiting them along with the posted threat of eviction, fines and/or charges or NO court in America will side with the police. Period.
All the upvotes or downvotes or comments on Reddit or anywhere on social media can't change that.
[Edit: "can't" not "can".]
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u/BigRedChi
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Yes. Fon Du Lac Wisconsin. The place where everything is happening.
Edit - My first silver! Thanks everyone!
Edit 2 - Gold and Plat?! Didn't think this post would be that popular, damn.
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u/nyconx Mar 27 '23
Fond du Lac is actually one of two cities in Wisconsin (Sheboygan is the other) where all of the strange and odd news stories come from. I remember they had an old broken down SWAT vehicle and they ordered a new one. While they waited for it to be built they got a loaner off of the Batman Begins Set. It even said Gotham City on the side of it.
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u/hovdeisfunny Mar 28 '23
Add Waukesha to that list because of their insane school board. They were just in the news for banning 1st graders from singing Rainbowland
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u/Gum_Thief Mar 28 '23
Isn't that where a teenage girl was murdered by two other girls claiming Slenderman told them to do it?
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u/_dead_and_broken Mar 28 '23
I just read an article about that. They also initially banned the Muppets song Rainbow Connection.
They are really freaking out about rainbows and I would laugh at the absurdity if the message behind what they're doing wasn't so terrifying.
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u/ILove2Bacon Mar 28 '23
Why would there be a landmine in a lake in Wisconsin though?
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u/Mooch07 Mar 28 '23
Elk hunting
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u/bkr1895 Mar 28 '23 edited Mar 28 '23
I don’t know about you but when I hunt elk I make an impassable no mans land of landmines and then I shell the forest for days at a time to demoralize the elk, occasionally I like to deploy mustard gas to really terrorize and strike the fear of god into them.
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u/therocketofpoop Mar 28 '23
You've never been Elk hunting in your life. You are a total poser. I know this because trench warfare is what really demoralizes the elk - the muck, the cold, the constant shelling, the smell, and the constant threat of death is what does it.
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u/PBR_King Mar 28 '23
I'm from the area and IIRC it's something used for derailing trains in case of emergency or something along those lines. There's an old train bridge that goes right above that river.
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u/ParadiseValleyFiend Mar 27 '23
Amazing. Where I live at least even a suspicious unattended backpack gets treated as a live explosive until it's confirmed that it isn't one. This level of apathy towards public safety is mind boggling.
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u/Putin_kills_kids Mar 28 '23
Bomb Hotspots:
- Baghdad
- Juarez
- Fon du Lac, WI
- OP's Mom's panties
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u/quanjon Mar 27 '23
She's a Wisconsin cop, you think there's actually any fucking crime in her dinky town? No, she just wanted to keep getting paid to sit on her ass all day.
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u/thunderkhawk Mar 27 '23
She literally said the bomb squad had other priorities which leads me to believe this city is training grounds for Al Quada. Many people are saying it. Many smart people.
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u/basedgod1184 Mar 28 '23
You can’t fine someone or beat someone’s ass for this so the police don’t want to get involved.
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u/ItsKurl Mar 27 '23
Wrong, they actually like to avoid serious problems and instead harass people when they’re bored and get paid for that cause no one will really do anything about it there.
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u/Born_2_Chill Mar 27 '23
Fond du Lac actually has a decent amount of crime, for a city of 50k. Referred to by some as the Armpit of NE WI.
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u/Fireproofspider Mar 28 '23
Keep in mind that you don't have the full background.
Reading the thread a googling a few things, there are a few things that jump out.
1- this happened years ago and the officer was already reprimanded at the time (before it became viral). 2- apparently they had found multiple objects like this one that time and had been told to stop prior. 3- someone had found a live grenade about a month prior where the bomb squad had been called.
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u/fridaystrong23
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She said, “…every single time you guys do this…”. That’s interesting.
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u/Dav82 Mar 27 '23
Meaning it wasn't their first 911 call. And it hasn't been their last.
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u/addicted_to_bass Mar 28 '23
Not the first time they think they found a bomb but it wasn't a bomb?
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u/damontoo Mar 28 '23
Bingo. They get lots of extra views if they call things bombs and get the police to respond, so they have tons of videos where they also find "bombs" that turn out not to be. And they hide behind the excuse of "we're just trying to be safe and protect the public!" when in reality they're trying to get rich off youtube.
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u/Abject_Film_4414 Mar 28 '23
This tells us a lot of context is clearly missing.
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u/mooocowmooo Mar 28 '23 edited 4d ago
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u/HerKneesLikeJesusPlz Mar 28 '23
They do. I saw one where they found a gun from like the Civil War with no serial number and called the cops
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u/addicted_to_bass Mar 28 '23
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was it a bomb?
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u/MrFluffyThing Mar 28 '23
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WFRV) – Brown County deputies have given an update on an item found recently in the Fox River.
Last week, a magnet fisherman and his wife pulled up what they thought was an explosive and called the police, which prompted an investigation from the bomb squad.
The Sheriff’s Office reports the condition of the item makes it difficult to identify. However, they do confirm it is made of some sort of metal.
After taking an x-ray of the item, the office reports deputies reviewed the information and they do not believe there is any kind of explosive contained inside.
Not an explosive.
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u/gridsandorchids Mar 28 '23 edited Mar 28 '23
It's honestly pretty reasonable for her to basically say "it was at the bottom of a fucking lake and not a problem before you guys pulled it out, which you've done multiple times before and we've asked you to stop.
Edit: also, holy shit, their whole reaction to it. "omg, what's that, a bomb thingy? Grab it and toss it on the boat". These people are idiots. All this bomb squad talk isn't considering the fact that these guys are literally carrying this thing around.
The logical thing to do is to STOP MAGNET FISHING THERE.
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u/HighKiteSoaring Mar 28 '23
I'm from Europe, we are used to finding unexploded munitions in rivers, under roads, in fields
If you pull a bomb or a mine out of a river and phone it in the police just show up and thank you for reporting it while they take it away for a controlled explosion
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u/jeffreywilfong Mar 28 '23
who the fuck is putting LAND mines under WATER, in WISCONSIN!?
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u/PresentAdvanced5910 Mar 27 '23
Was it a bomb? I can't find an answer anywhere.
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u/Badgerdont Mar 27 '23
I think I read years ago they had it x-rayed and don't believe it contained explosive material.
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u/Somber_Solace Mar 28 '23
In the full video all they said was "they want us to dispose of them, but they said it was inconclusive". So they didn't even call the bomb squad on it. But considering they just told them to keep it, and there was no later mention/news of it, I don't think it was. It just looks like a weight plate to me.
Side note though, they acted weird towards the female officer. They started calling her "crabby" and whatnot while she was still next to them, and spent most of the end of the video dedicated to shots of her like rubbing her face and other irrelevant actions, while barely showing the other officers actually inspecting the "land mine". Weird vibes, I'm guessing her reaction might have been partially based on the previous time she interacted with them, but I don't feel like digging through their videos to find that.
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u/No_Manufacturer5641 Mar 28 '23
These guys do this constantly and any strange peace of medal they call the bomb squad and want it to be a bomb because that gets clicks on YouTube. They are legitimately wasting a lot of peoples time. Yes they are their for bombs but if you call the fire department every time your neighbor lights his grill you'll get the same speech.
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u/fltpath Mar 28 '23
After being in the military for years in infantry, I know of no US mine, nor any other military mine that looks like that.
Aside from that, if the finders actually thought it was a mine, they had no idea how to properly handle it.
The officer appeared to already know these guys, and were probably tired of the calls..
What will happen next is that magnet fishing would be outlawed...
Showboating for YouTube clicks.
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u/thewickedbarnacle Mar 27 '23
The real question is how the f did a landmine end up there
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u/ManInTheMiddle1 Mar 27 '23 •
Exactly right! So is it a landmine or isn't it?! All this posturing and pontificating on who's right and who's wrong, yet no one has answered the question, "Are these actually landmines they are finding, or are they something that looks like a landmine, but is something else?" I can think of no rational reason why there would be landmines in a riverbed in Fond du Lac, WI. Was there are former army base there? Ammunition depot? Or are these guys pulling up inert objects, calling them landmines and wasting the cops time calling them in? They seem to be handling the object awfully casually for something they believe is a landmine.
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u/addicted_to_bass Mar 28 '23
I can't stop laughing at the idea that it's not a landmine and it's not the first time they believe they had found a landmine.
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u/crypticfreak Mar 28 '23
I live in the area and this isn't the first time these guys called in unexploded ordinance. I get why they'd be cautious and call the police but I also get why the police would be a bit frustrated. I think the fisherman are more in the right, though. What were they supposed to do? Throw it away?
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u/linklolthe3 Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
One probably wouldn't be there. The city of Fond du Lac is 100+ miles from the only military base in the entire state of Wisconsin.
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u/Buck_Thorn Mar 27 '23
Apparently there was more than one found by this group.
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u/foonati Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
Can someone please tell her that this is the exact reason those resources exist. We have a bomb squad, look, somebody found a bomb, alright, do your damn job.
Edit: please read u/Kwiatkowski's reply, contains important context that's missing from this video
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u/BigRedChi Mar 27 '23
She was reprimanded. This was 2 years ago.
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u/SunMummis Mar 27 '23
Paid leave for a month?
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u/Wishyouamerry Mar 28 '23 •
It’s more helpful to link the actual comment than the username.
Or just include the comment in your edit:
she’s annoyed because this isn’t the first call out for these guys, I forget how many times it was up to at this point but it was multiple in a short timeframe, and the cops had told them to please stop magnet fishing there.
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u/sambull Mar 28 '23
I can just imagine how many 'possible murder weapon found in river' calls they had before...
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u/jgjgleason Mar 28 '23
Maybe I’m off base here, but shouldn’t the police clear the area themselves to be sure there aren’t anymore Fucking bombs in the river.
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u/Kwiatkowski Mar 27 '23
she’s annoyed because this isn’t the first call out for these guys, I forget how many times it was up to at this point but it was multiple in a short timeframe, and the cops had told them to please stop magnet fishing there.
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u/Classic_Piccolo4127 Mar 27 '23
Yeah but like, did anyone in the town think maybe they should dredge the River next to the bridge and remove the MULTIPLE EXPLOSIVES THAT KEEP SEEMING TO TURN UP. Jesus Christ! It’s like “yeah, these idiots keep finding land mines next to that bridge. What assholes, wasting our time. How many are down there?!?! Get rid of the explosives in your fucking riverbed
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u/ManInTheMiddle1 Mar 27 '23
All this posturing and pontificating on who's right and who's wrong, yet no one has answered the question, "Are these actually landmines they are finding, or are they something that looks like a landmine, but is something else?" I can think of no rational reason why there would be landmines in a riverbed in Fond du Lac, WI. Was there are former army base there? Ammunition depot? Or are these guys pulling up inert objects, calling them landmines and wasting the cops time calling them in? They seem to be handling the object awfully casually for something they believe is a landmine.
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u/Cat-on-the-printer1 Mar 27 '23
The way the guy literally pulled the landmine off the magnet… and they’re stacking them together in a container??? They’re literally no nonchalant about apparently live explosives.
I can’t blame the cop for being skeptical, a bunch of YouTubers pressuring her to call in the bomb squad with cameras out and everything. It wouldn’t have been the first time YouTubers faked something for views.
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u/The_Good_Count Mar 27 '23
I feel like "these aren't landmines" would be something for the bombsquad to tell them on the first few callouts. If there's still doubt at this point, then it's probably still good to keep calling them.
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u/NewAccount_WhoIsDis Mar 28 '23
That part would be cut from the TikTok edit cause it makes the situation seem less exciting.
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u/Orleanian Mar 28 '23
There's too little context.
Has the bomb squad told these guys 4 times already that these aren't landmines, they're just old firework launchers that are no particular danger to anyone unless they get dug up, dried out, and set on fire with naked people in a 5yd radius?
And these wanna-be heroes are out here digging shit up from the riverbed out of a misplaced sense of civic duty and attention-seeking?
Who can say.
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u/Boycubpiglet Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
I tried to search anything about Fond Du Lac to logically explain unexploded munitions and I couldn't find anything about a nearby base, it being used for training, a train carrying munitions derailing on a bridge, anything. What I did find was a 2016 story of a grenade in a house the bomb squad had to destroy (separate from one that was fished up) and a 2015 story of an unexploded WWII bazooka round in someone's house. Somehow, this explains exactly why there are mines in their river.
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u/Anotherherolost Mar 27 '23
Today I learned landmine paperwork is apparently a pain in the ass.
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u/blackoutmedia_ Mar 27 '23
I would of thought that would be pretty easy to blow through
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u/Panzerv2003 Mar 27 '23
Just leave it in fron of the police station, shouldn't be a problem if it's not worth bomb squads time
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u/addicted_to_bass Mar 28 '23
Throw it in front of the cop car and see if they run it over.
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u/Buck_Thorn Mar 27 '23
Here's the news article about it: https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/fdl-police-officer-tells-magnet-fishers-they-are-taking-away-resources-from-the-city/
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u/AnorNaur Mar 27 '23
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u/Buck_Thorn Mar 27 '23
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WFRV) – A viral video of an interaction between magnet fishermen and a Fond du Lac police officer is gathering millions of views, as some are calling out the officer’s behavior.
The officer has a nametag of ‘B. Dolan’, which appears to be Fond du Lac Police Department’s, Bethany Dolan. The initial video was posted back in Sept. 2021, but a recently-edited version was shared three weeks ago and has already earned over 1.7 million views.
In the 51-second clip, at least two men are talking with Officer Dolan about a possible explosive they pulled from the water. The fishermen say they pulled it out of the water and then put it in a container filled with water to prevent it from drying out.
Officer Dolan says ‘Other than it being a similar shape, because obviously it’s very deteriorated, how can you say for sure this is an explosive?’ It is hard to make out if she said ‘bomb’ or ‘explosive’.
The fishermen respond with “You can’t, that is why you got to have the bomb squad come out.” This is when Dolan says that the bomb squad has ‘a lot of things they gotta do’.
After this exchange, one of the fishermen details a previous incident where they found a lot of grenades that a bomb squad was required to be contacted. They also mention that they can’t just throw it in a garbage can.
The officer ends the video by telling the fishermen that they are taking away resources from the City of Fond du Lac every single time they do this.
Fond du Lac Police Chief Aaron Goldstein tells Local 5:
This is an edited video which we became aware of back in September 2021 when it went viral on You Tube/TikTok at that time and we addressed the customer service issues immediately. It appears the video from September 2021 is recently being reshared in several platforms causing it to go viral again. Please be assured that we desire to provide the best police services to the city. We assure you this Department does not tolerate such conduct and that the appropriate corrective actions have already been taken. Fond du Lac Police Chief Aaron Goldstein→ More replies
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u/DeepFriedSausages Mar 28 '23
A lot of these type of videos are very dumb. One time they found a cannonball, just a solid metal ball, and called the bomb squad. The bomb squad told them exactly what they said it was to begin with and pointed out that even if it was a bomb from the 1700s, the thing obviously wouldn't explode. Also these kind of channels are pretty suspicious since every single one of their videos are about them finding dangerous things. they never find anything that isn't a gun, bomb, murder weapon, or car crash that's a part of a cold case.
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u/meekonesfade Mar 27 '23
It sounds to me like this isnt the first time these magnet fishers have caught a mystery object that they thought was a landmine in WISCONSIN. Maybe the first one or two times they deployed the bomb squad, but now they also take into consideration like where it was found.
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u/Altered-babe Mar 27 '23
The bomb squad has more important things than to inspect this particular bomb in our very bomb-infested city. So many bombs. This one is so lame. Want shiny bomb next time or don’t call.
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u/elfowlcat Mar 27 '23
“Look, guys, if your Geiger counter ain’t ticking, don’t bother the bomb squad. They have better things to do.”
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u/Zertaku Mar 27 '23
You can tell she doesn't want to deal with the paper work 😂
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u/Thameus Mar 27 '23
Just copy/paste from the previous paperwork and change the dates, it can't be that hard.
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u/MaAreYouOnUppers Mar 27 '23
Mixed feelings. They apparently were told multiple times to stop magnet fishing there. Because of the turn out of explosives. It’s completely reasonable to tell people who say things like “probably not something I should have in my hand” (ie: a fucking land mine) to stop doing what they’re doing. It’s the stupid games stupid prize exchange when these guys blow their hands off or half of their face winds up missing.
I’m an avid magnet fisher. It’s a great hobby but playing with old corroded and unpredictable explosives is incredibly stupid. I realize it’s part of the risk but coming across explosives you should immediately drop it back in the water where it’s going to do the least amount of damage to you, or god forbid, someone else. These guys are not very bright and their videos make me think they’re excited for footage like this because they’re YouTubers.
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u/the_real_sleventy Mar 28 '23
It seems like they were told to stop magnet fishing there because they kept on calling the bomb squad for things that weren't actually explosives, which makes sense given that this is in the middle of WI and 80+ miles away from the nearest military base. These guys are absolutely doing this for the youtube views.
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u/ManInTheMiddle1 Mar 27 '23
So is it a landmine or isn't it?! All this posturing and pontificating on who's right and who's wrong, yet no one has answered the question, "Are these actually landmines they are finding, or are they something that looks like a landmine, but is something else?" I can think of no rational reason why there would be landmines in a riverbed in Fond du Lac, WI. Was there are former army base there? Ammunition depot? Or are these guys pulling up inert objects, calling them landmines and wasting the cops time calling them in? They seem to be handling the object awfully casually for something they believe is a landmine.
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