Whiskey Tango "Fox"trot! That's a Mortar!
Orange, Virginia Hunter Vap, a Marine veteran and resident of Orange, Virginia, went out to check on his animals on his small farm after his dog alerted him of a fox on the property. What he found was something much more alarming than the fox, it was a 50mm WWII French mortar.
According to Vap, he was attempting to chase off the fox in some brush when his foot hit what felt like a glass bottle. Vap said, "I picked it up, and then saw the little fins on the bottom and realized that it wasn't a glass bottle, and for a second I was like, 'There's no way this is actually what I think it is.'"
After noticing the plunger and 55mm markings on the side of the mortar he knew it definitely wasn't a glass bottle.
"I'd already picked it up," Vap said. "I went and put it in the shed, so a pig didn't touch it and turn into bacon."
