Phuket mystery visitor could be armed and dangerous

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Phuket mystery visitor could be armed and dangerous

By The Nation

 

 

Something mysterious has washed up on Phuket’s Nai Yang Beach, and it could be explosive.

The Third Naval Region’s ordnance disposal team was scheduled to haul away the metallic, torpedo-shaped object on Wednesday.

 

Visible only at low tide, it’s been meanwhile fenced off and marked as a hazard with a buoy.

 

The object – five metres long and 60 centimetres in diameter – was spotted on Tuesday in the tidal sands of Sirinat National Park.

 

It’s covered in rust and barnacles.

 

Photos of the object circulating on the social media have drawn suggestions it’s an old military torpedo or a vessel used in mining minerals.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30328420

 

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[tracker1]

With all the BS lately I will still stick with it's a giant turd ! any guesses who it may belong to someone big !

[zaZa9]

It better report to Patong Immigration within 24 hours or its in big trouble !

[Somtamnication]

2 hours ago, tracker1 said:

With all the BS lately I will still stick with it's a giant turd ! any guesses who it may belong to someone big !

 

After I read your post, I asked my mother-in-law if she had been to the beach, recently. 

[Pakaty]

I think Kim Jong Un had misfire.  Lets hope its a fizzle.

 

5 meters long?  Looks about half that from what I can see.

[Dap]

43 minutes ago, zaZa9 said:

It better report to Patong Immigration within 24 hours or its in big trouble !

Very appropriate ... nearly spit out my beer 

 

[balo]

Could be one of those cigar shaped UFOs. They are here you know. 

[Oziex1]

That thing washed up?

 

I would guess it's been there a while and has recently been uncovered.

[KarenBravo]

That doesn't look like a torpedo.

Looks more like a plane's drop-tank.

[beechbum]

20 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

That doesn't look like a torpedo.

Looks more like a plane's drop-tank.

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[maxcorrigan]

If it had washed up Pattaya Beach no one would have noticed, it would have looked completely normal, or "norman" as my Thai wife would say!