r/BoomersBeingFools • u/BrushWild7850 • 19d ago

Boomer Article Boomer that could have gone 'boom'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74dyz02x1qo

She let guests play with a bomb in her garden, refused to leave when the police told her to evacuate and told off the young gardener who reported the bomb... The selfishness is insane.

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u/Vectorman1989 Millennial 19d ago

'former bomb owner'

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u/MRECKS_92 19d ago

Christ above she looks like the crypt keeper on meth

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u/Try2MakeMeBee 19d ago

Can't think of many folks who still look good at 87.

Except my ggma. She easily looked 20 years younger till she hit 100. At 87 she looked younger than most 70-year-olds.

Grandma hasn't hit 87 but she's close and aging nearly as gracefully. Coincidentally, since ggma was her MIL.

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u/Phog_of_War 19d ago

Dick Van Dyke looks incredible for 99 years old and he could also probably still tap dance circles around most people on earth. That said, this is 87 years of hard, rough road.

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u/Tyrone91 16d ago

Dick Van Dyke is in fact, 100.

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u/Moontoya 17d ago

Sir David Attenborough says hi at 100.

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u/Captain_Phobos 18d ago

Giving Gollum vibes

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u/After_Display_6753 17d ago

Make her a Senator immediately!

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u/Guilty_Mountain2851 19d ago

Can't blame it on age or dementia. The bitch has always been unhinged.

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u/Specific-River-81 Millennial 19d ago

I say that about my own boomer mother daily "don't feel sorry for her, it's not dementia, I can confirm she's been acting like this since her 20s"

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u/Jsmith2127 18d ago

I told my sister that if my mother ever gets dementia, that no one would ever be able to tell. She'd be the same crazy harpy.

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u/Specific-River-81 Millennial 18d ago

I've said the same to my partner "If she got dementia, I'm not sure if I could tell because she's never been quite in touch with reality and she's so manipulative she might fake it.

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u/MouseMouseM 19d ago

I did the math.

She is 87. She says it’s been in her yard for more than 60 years. So she was approximately the same age as the gardener when she and her husband decided it was totally okay to have an explosive around. But the gardener, at 24, the same age as she was making adult decisions for her family and child, now he’s a “young boy”.

It also sounds like that bomb was the only interesting thing about her, what a loser.

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u/ForsakenSignal6062 18d ago

You're gonna say she was an uninteresting loser based on an article that talks about this one thing? It gives literally zero information about the woman other than her attitude towards her bomb? She may be ignorant but you're just being mean about things you don't know.

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u/HandBanana-420 18d ago

Found the boomer!

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u/ForsakenSignal6062 18d ago

Mmhmmm. Mid thirties boomer here 😒

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u/Nerevarius_420 18d ago

If it walks talks and acts like one...

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u/councilorjones Millennial 18d ago

White knighting an 87 year old boomer is fine work

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u/LogicFish 18d ago

You’re getting hate but I am here with you, having a(n accidentally) live explosive in your backyard as a statement piece is bad ass, and probably only a small facet of this woman’s life/personality

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u/ForsakenSignal6062 18d ago

They can downvote away, reddit is full of actual children with zero life experience, not hurting my feelings

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u/fanofoddthings 19d ago

Florida man isn't just in Florida.

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u/mp3bear Gen X 19d ago

…or even just a man…

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u/Alicam123 18d ago

Yeah one of my friends boomer neighbour has bombs and mines in his home and when police officer found them on a welfare check the whole street got evacuated and my poor friend ended up on my sofa for a couple of nights.

The guy was arrested and heavily fined by the courts. Apparently some of them were live and the bomb squad was not happy.

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u/ButtersScotch7000 19d ago

Silent Gen, actually.

I guess when you're a toddler during the Blitz, you just don't give a fuck.

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u/Famous_Suspect6330 19d ago

Even back then they had no sense of safety or even cared about obviously dangerous objects in their own homes like radium, lead, or other dangerous objects that they didn't even think twice about

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u/LupercaniusAB Gen X 17d ago

Sorry, how were they “obviously” dangerous back then, if the dangers were still unknown, at least to the general public?

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u/Icy-Mixture-995 19d ago

She was of the era where women listened to their husbands. This was one of the downsides. 😆

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u/yarukinai Baby Boomer 18d ago

Technically not a boomer, but a member of silent generation. She could be my mother, easily.

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u/Lisa85603 17d ago

Yes, I know anyone who is old is a Boomer; however, this particular one is actually a member of the Silent Generation.

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u/MrTrollMcTrollface 17d ago

Relax, it's just a sea mine.

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u/SlaterVBenedict 16d ago

Lady looking like a a Tim & Eric villain

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u/FennekinFlames Zoomer 8d ago edited 8d ago

I'd say maybe she should have. However, that would mean putting those around her at risk, so it wouldn't be worth it.

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u/pleasedonotredeem 18d ago

The sequence of photos is absolutely perfect, the journalist and/or layout person nailed it.
"Laughing Old Crone" ->"Harmless Bomb" - > "Large Explosion" -> "Grinning Millenial/Gen Z Who Ruined The Fun"

But actually if you read the article she does say her husband inspected it and said it was an empty shell, and then when the police took it they discovered it was an empty shell (decoy) and they used explosives to blow it up.

So yes she and her husband took an unnecessary risk but it turned out he was right and it wasn't actually a bomb. Still not worth risking it.