Librarians find WW1 machine gun in library basement

[Moose]

Northern Maine library is where this discovery was made..... kind of an interesting story.

A search for books leads Aroostook librarians to a World War I gun - The County

While digging through ceiling-high piles of boxes for a summer book sale, Fort Fairfield librarian Barb Wells-Alexander stumbled upon a mysterious wooden crate.

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[surveyor]

The Devil’s Paintbrush....

 

[DrSpeed]

Good thing those librarians recognized where it belongs. I shuttered at the thought of what could have happened otherwise.

You never know where those things can show up, and who finds them:
(Good ending):

Officers stunned when woman drops off $40,000 WWII German rifle to be destroyed in police buy-back scheme

The rare find in Connecticut, which is worth up to $40,000, would have been sent home by an American soldier who had taken it from a prisoner of war or a German he had killed.

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(Bad Ending):

Ricker melts guns, turns metal into art

After Heath Maddox's father died unexpectedly in 2006, Maddox was clearing out his dad's...

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