Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote in message news:<bdtr5n030lq@drn.newsguy.com>...
> I thought I had already posted but it got lost in the ether. 
> 
> 
> "The Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) [the fucking ARMY!] sent a bomb-disposal
> squad to Kotani's home at the request of the police, who found 20 to 30
> artillery shells during a search at his home earlier in the day."
> 
> These were live blind 155mm arty shells he had picked up from the imact zone of
> a firing range in Shizuoka. A 155mm HE round can take out a tank, imagine what
> one of these could do to a Japanese house! I have seen medium arty and it is a
> fearsome sight. 30 of these mothers is too much to think about. Seeing a flare
> shell go off in a residential area would be interesting.
> 

The guy who was arrested has a military store in Fuji city.

He sells uniforms and replica guns etc. The usual nutcase goods.

Mukade