If you have 4,000 bushels of empty oyster shells, the US Army will pay you $15,000 for them. (Thanks, David!)

  • http://twitter.com/Listener43 Listener43

    It’s going to take me some time to empty them, but ….

  • AndyBooth

    I wonder what its for. I believe they used to burn oyster shells and use the ashes as a primitive chemical weapon since it causes blindness when it gets in your eyes, but then I could be totally misremembering a Sharp novel.

  • Another Kevin

    Hmm. When my old neighbourhood was a fishing village, they used broken oyster shells in the streets where others might have used gravel.  Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.

  • SeaSpider

    What’s it for? Trying clicking on the link and reading. Jeez, some people really are incredibly lazy.

  • Scott R

    Dammit! I just threw all mine out! Goes to show: you always need that thing you’d been saving just after you get rid of it.