Military Blows Up Mortar Left For Judge As A Gift
<p>JACKSON, Miss. — It was the gift that came with a bang.</p> <p>The wife of Mississippi Judge Charlie Vess found a mortar shell on the couple’s patio in Natchez this week. They called the sheriff’s office.</p> <p>The sheriff called Fort Polk, an Army base in neighboring Louisiana. It sent a bomb team to blow up the mortar at the Natchez-Adams County Airport on Wednesday.</p> <p>Turns out, the judge collects military memorabilia and a friend had left the mortar as a gift. There was no note and military explosive experts said it could have been a live phosphorus round because it didn’t appear to have been taken apart. The sheriff’s department, however, said Thursday in a news release that information it obtained since then indicates it was not a live round.</p> <p>“I think people may not want to give me little happies like that anymore,” Vess, an Adams County Justice Court judge, told The Associated Press.</p> <p>The judge said he suspected that the round was a gift, but judges make de
Military Blows Up Mortar Left For Judge As A Gift <p>JACKSON, Miss. — It was the gift that came with a bang.</p> <p>The wife of Mississippi Judge Charlie Vess found a mortar shell on the couple’s patio in Natchez this week. They called the sheriff’s office.</p> <p>The sheriff called Fort Polk, an Army base in neighboring Louisiana. It sent a bomb team to blow up the mortar at the Natchez-Adams County Airport on Wednesday.</p> <p>Turns out, the judge collects military memorabilia and a friend had left the mortar as a gift. There was no note and military explosive experts said it could have been a live phosphorus round because it didn’t appear to have been taken apart. The sheriff’s department, however, said Thursday in a news release that information it obtained since then indicates it was not a live round.</p> <p>“I think people may not want to give me little happies like that anymore,” Vess, an Adams County Justice Court judge, told The Associated Press.</p> <p>The judge said he suspected that the round was a gift, but judges make de
Military Blows Up Mortar Left For Judge As A Gift <p>JACKSON, Miss. — It was the gift that came with a bang.</p> <p>The wife of Mississippi Judge Charlie Vess found a mortar shell on the couple’s patio in Natchez this week. They called the sheriff’s office.</p> <p>The sheriff called Fort Polk, an Army base in neighboring Louisiana. It sent a bomb team to blow up the mortar at the Natchez-Adams County Airport on Wednesday.</p> <p>Turns out, the judge collects military memorabilia and a friend had left the mortar as a gift. There was no note and military explosive experts said it could have been a live phosphorus round because it didn’t appear to have been taken apart. The sheriff’s department, however, said Thursday in a news release that information it obtained since then indicates it was not a live round.</p> <p>“I think people may not want to give me little happies like that anymore,” Vess, an Adams County Justice Court judge, told The Associated Press.</p> <p>The judge said he suspected that the round was a gift, but judges make de
Military Blows Up Mortar Left For Judge As A Gift <p>JACKSON, Miss. — It was the gift that came with a bang.</p> <p>The wife of Mississippi Judge Charlie Vess found a mortar shell on the couple’s patio in Natchez this week. They called the sheriff’s office.</p> <p>The sheriff called Fort Polk, an Army base in neighboring Louisiana. It sent a bomb team to blow up the mortar at the Natchez-Adams County Airport on Wednesday.</p> <p>Turns out, the judge collects military memorabilia and a friend had left the mortar as a gift. There was no note and military explosive experts said it could have been a live phosphorus round because it didn’t appear to have been taken apart. The sheriff’s department, however, said Thursday in a news release that information it obtained since then indicates it was not a live round.</p> <p>“I think people may not want to give me little happies like that anymore,” Vess, an Adams County Justice Court judge, told The Associated Press.</p> <p>The judge said he suspected that the round was a gift, but judges make de
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