No1 son collects old bullets and shell casings, and as he is perpetually hard up, we often get to buy things on ebay: 'while you're online Dad, could you have a look at this....' sort of thing.
Anyway, a week or so back he saw a couple of 0.50" shells on ebay, so we bid for them and sent off a cheque to the vendor.
Today we had a phone call from Aberdeen Police, asking about a suspicious package that they had sent for forensic examination to the Police Laboratories in Glasgow... They wanted to know who had bought the contents, where it had come from etc etc.
After a bit of head scratching we realised that it was the 2 shells we had bought on ebay, and after quoting the ebay reference and the vendor's details, the Police officer advised that we would get the shells back after they had been cleared for postal delivery.
We didn't mention the cannon shells....:-))
Peter
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