Posted on 08/19/2015 11:21:58 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
(LONDON) -- A family beach outing turned terrifying last week when what was thought to be a washed-up buoy turned out to be an active bomb.
"My children took their boogie boards down and we were going out to the sea," Kelly Gravell of Burry Port, Wales, said. "We saw a large object on the beach, so we thought we’d have a little look."
"We get things washed up all the time, so we thought it was a buoy. We never thought for one second it was a bomb," she continued.
Gravell told ABC News she, her husband, and two young children went to their local beach for a picnic on Aug. 12, when the kids noticed something wash onto the sand.
That's when, she said, Erin, 6, and Ellis, 4, began posing for photos with the huge metal ball.
"We were more fascinated by the barnacles on it," Gravell added. "My son was touching it and was knocking on it a little bit, and that was it really."
Five days later, Pembrey Country Park officials announced on their Facebook page that the “buoy” discovered on the seashore was a United States military mine bomb.
Gravell said she and her husband, Gareth, were notified of the news by a friend who saw photos of their children with the bomb on Facebook.
"The realization that it was a bomb -- it was completely shocking for us," she said. "We realize now just how lucky we were."
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Oops!
Yeah, that vacation was a real blast...
He could replace Bugs Bunny as a bomb tester.
Talk about something that would ruin your day...
Thank goodness it didn’t go off!
It wuz da bomb, yo!
Here be dat bomb buoy!!!
LOL!!!
Several years ago a local shrimper brought up a 500 lb bomb in his nets. He dumped it into his deck and ambled back into port, passing several large chemical plants and their bulk loading terminals/storage tank. Once moored, he posed for several pictures sitting on it, some with a toddler relative.
Authorities discovered his catch because he bragged about it to a guy filling up a car adjacent to him at a gas station later that evening. Fortunately that guy was an off-duty LEO.
EOD was dispatched from Ft. Good and the bomb was detonated about 3 means from my house. Felt like the house leapt a foot of the ground. Would have been less stressful had they given a little advanced notice.
Wow, that be a whole lotta barnacles!
Make the Ft. Hood and 3 miles.
Darned small keys on this phone....
Looks like a mine.
Somebody set up us the beach buoy.
Is this a WWII vintage mine that has been floating around for 70 years? The barnacles seem to attest to that.
Ping...or not.
A mine bomb? Really? The stupid makes my head hurt.
I don’t know how to post a picture, but this is hilarious...
Danger UXB
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