Weymouth woman 'threw unexploded WW2 bomb across garden'

BBC ^ | May 3, 2020 | BBC

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A woman who dug up an unexploded World War Two bomb in her garden said she threw it across the lawn for her dog before she realised what it was.

Lulu Cirillo, 49, was gardening at her home in Weymouth when her spade struck the bomb 10in (25.4cm) down.

She thought it was a large stone and took it inside before taking to Facebook to ask people what they thought it was.

The bomb was detonated on Weymouth Beach at about 21:00 BST on Saturday.

When Ms Cirillo dug the device up, she initially thought her pet Shih Tzu Cica might want to play with it.

She said: "I thought it was a stone so I threw it. It was muddy - I never thought it could be a bomb."

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There might have been hundreds dropped. This one just failed to go off.

[wally_bert]

An excellent series.

[Hot Tabasco]

"They said it was loaded and very dangerous so they took it away and the next thing I heard was they'd disposed of it on Weymouth Beach.

Didn't say it was detonated, they just disposed of it. In other words, they laughed and threw it in the garbage.........

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There’s a video of it going “BOOM” at the Weymouth Beach. Some really weird noise when it goes off, too.

[PLMerite]

Looks like it might be a 2in mortar:

Minus the tail fins, of course.

[Hot Tabasco]

There’s a video of it going “BOOM”

I suspect the go boom was the result of the following......LOL!

we were assisting EOD with a controlled explosion on the beach!

[SamAdams76]

They will be digging up WW2 bombs a thousand years from now.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

WW 1, too, in France.

In WW I, artillery training took place in the hills above Stanford University where I and many other people hike. The shells were thrown 3 to 4 miles into the hills. One was found about 15 years ago during the construction of a new house!