whats the trigger on those, the ones weve seen usually have a coat hanger with a broken circuit ready to connect when it touches something and the two poles touch together.  if it was one of those and not remote control (and remote control is more difficult & expensive) he could have kept that forever. gave it to his grandchildren as a war souvenir. he detonated that by closing the circuit - what a fucking brainlet. brilliant. lol.  if it had been a toilet he would have kept it.
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