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Boy Finds WWII Bomb with Metal Detector
UPI ^ | Dec. 29, 2012

Posted on 12/31/2012 3:20:16 PM PST by nickcarraway

A military bomb disposal team took care of some unfinished World War II business in eastern England after a boy found an old bomb, officials said.

Sonny Carter, 7, was using a metal detector he got for Christmas during a walk with his parents Wednesday, the Lynn News reported. He got a hit on Roydon Common near the family's home in Gaywood, Norfolk.

The family brought the mud-caked object home and washed it off. Then Sonny's father, Jem Carter, got concerned and called a friend who had been a Royal Air Force armorer, who told him to call police.

An RAF bomb disposal team determined the bomb was a British practice weapon used on training runs. It still had its wiring in place but contained no explosives.

The family found the experience more exciting than scary.

"We are dumbfounded that he discovered this on his first go," Sonny's mother, Tracy Wood, told the News. "We are going to go out again to see if he can find something Roman. It has made our Christmas."

But Flight Lt. Donald Earl, a spokesman for RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire, advised anyone who finds a possible bomb to leave it be and call for help.


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1 posted on 12/31/2012 3:20:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

What an exciting find for the kid! A story he can tell his grandchildren. Cool!


2 posted on 12/31/2012 3:28:20 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: nickcarraway
I am surprised the damn socialist government didn't find the whole family guilty of possession a bomb and throw them all in prison...
3 posted on 12/31/2012 3:30:02 PM PST by ArtDodger
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To: nickcarraway
UXO training. They need it. Badly.

/johnny

4 posted on 12/31/2012 3:32:09 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: nickcarraway
Why would a bomb need a metal detector???

Ducking and covering now

5 posted on 12/31/2012 3:33:33 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Hope and Change has become Attack and Obfuscate.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

That will be a while. For now he can tell his schoolmates.


6 posted on 12/31/2012 3:34:51 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The one thing that Hollywood gets right about guns is that crminals will always get them.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Squantos
A story he can tell his grandchildren.

And look, kids, I've got all my fingers, and most of my toes.

Probably best to leave the large metal objects alone for Lefty and his buddies. They ain't too bright, and do a good job of securing a site.

/johnny

7 posted on 12/31/2012 3:35:52 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
I have 2 very young grandsons that are close in age. When they crowd around and get annoying, I explain: "One of you is a spare. Don't make me decide which one."

They of course, back off. Kid nailed me on that and said I used the same line with her and her sister when she was a bratling.

Didn't deny that charge. Just asked which one made the final cut? ;)

/johnny

8 posted on 12/31/2012 3:40:33 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: nickcarraway

Have a friend who lost a leg to unexploded ordinance.

I guess it didn’t help that he tried to open it with a saw.


9 posted on 12/31/2012 3:43:18 PM PST by pennyfarmer (Your socialist beat our liberal AGAIN.)
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To: pennyfarmer
A saw?

Ever body knows you use a tub of gas and a roman candle.

10 posted on 12/31/2012 4:08:47 PM PST by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: nickcarraway

Been detecting for 20 years and never found anything that exciting unless you consider pull tabs and zinc pennies fun.


11 posted on 12/31/2012 4:23:29 PM PST by neal1960 (D m cr ts S ck. Would you like to buy a vowel?)
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To: nickcarraway

Will Brian Ash please pick up the red courtesy phone. Leftenant Brian Ash ...


12 posted on 12/31/2012 4:24:27 PM PST by NonValueAdded (If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
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To: nickcarraway

When I was a twelve year old Army brat living in Okinawa in the sixties, I once found a real bomb from WWII. The little brothers ratted me out, and Dad called the bomb disposal squad. They told him it was still live, and quite deadly.


13 posted on 12/31/2012 4:27:00 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: nickcarraway
practice weapon .......contained no explosives

Lets all PANIC!

14 posted on 12/31/2012 4:53:18 PM PST by ASA Vet (There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.)
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To: NonValueAdded

As a WW2 history aficionado, that is one of my favorites. Hats off to those Royal Engineer chappies! Also to the inspiration of this, Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, and his memoir, “Unexploded Bomb”.


15 posted on 12/31/2012 7:08:17 PM PST by SES1066 (Government is NOT the reason for my existence but it is the road to our ruin!)
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To: nickcarraway

Is that a bomb,or are you just happy to see me?


16 posted on 12/31/2012 7:25:44 PM PST by pricilla (one should always try to be smarter than the equipment one is operating - Amajato)
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To: SES1066
Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E,

Hand salute and all due respects. No one around here knows what an MBE is, or an Iron Cross, or a Red Star (Hero of the Soviet Union), or that ribbon they give you for not getting arrested in the last 3 years. Good Conduct, I think they call it. I've got two. Amazing, that part.

No-one reads Kipling anymore.

We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;

Me? I live it. Dance?

/johnny

17 posted on 12/31/2012 7:51:47 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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