A puzzlement

[commodorified]

So, an unexploded shell of indeterminate age has been removed from a house in Toronto and taken to CFB Borden to be destroyed.

Noting that all has ended well and everybody is fine, so I can afford to be trivial:

A man who had just bought a home on the street discovered the shell in the house's garage

I think that the homeowner would be well within his rights to request that the fee for the customary pre-purchase home inspection be refunded in full. I mean, unless he waived inspection, which would be very unusual, or it's on page 12: "Garage — foundation good, roof in need of repair, unexploded ordnance behind workbench" and the purchaser just didn't read the whole thing.

Comments

[commodorified]

*giggles*

Events incline me to believe that the garage was badly skimped, though.

[nineveh_uk]

It certainly doesn't auger well for their powers of observation.

[xinef]

That was my reaction!

[thnidu]

And they're supposed to know the drill. (BTW, it's "augur".)

I expected you to go for "mortar bit".

[commodorified]

Please do not attempt to use an augur on unidentified live ordnance.

A hammer drill is right out.

[commodorified]

Also, I know these things make you twitch, and I also know you mean only good and are used to this being perfectly okay, but while you may freely correct the spelling in my posts, please don't correct my commenters. Some of them are composing or typing under difficult conditions, and all of them are allowed to be imperfect in off-the-cuff remarks.

[thnidu]

Ah! Noted to remember.