Family Photographs Kids with 'Beach Buoy' That Was Actually a Bomb - World News

ABC News Radio ^ | 8-19-2015

[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."

[TangibleDisgust]

here's a re-purposed WWII mine...

kinda cool

[EQAndyBuzz]

Mussels for everyone!!

[wally_bert]

Great series.

[Larry Lucido]

“Those aren’t buoys!”

[wally_bert]

The best beach blast was at Anzio - TV’s Frank.

[Gamecock]

This family?

Bomb? "Whatever."

[Gamecock]

And of course that may be the world’s first photo bomb!

[JimRed]

Wow, that be a whole lotta barnacles!

Actually, mussels. Tasty!

[Boonie]

Thanks...

[Slings and Arrows]

DARWIN: "Missed him by *this* much, Chief!"

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Falling Hare

[Slings and Arrows]

http://www.roalddahlfans.com/books/gremtext.php

[Tijeras_Slim]

Ping to #21, that’s badazz.

[colorado tanker]

White wine garlic and onion sauce. Mmmmm!

[Squantos]

Saw that a few years ago .....indeed badass wood stove. I’ve got lamp bases made from old german 240mm brass, 5 inch 38 rounds that were test rounds with just nose fuses that flowered to forward ends ....use em as 40 pound planters for ivy on our mantle. Lots of trench art from WWI I collected for decades....BBQ pit made from a inert Mk 83 gravity bomb....

Would love to have that sea mine wood stove..

[Psalm 73]

"Darned small keys on this phone..."

Oh - I just thought you were talking in code....

[Tijeras_Slim]

My Great Grandfather had some artillery shell art from WWI. He was a Captain in the AEF. I have a French 37 mm shell he brought back. My Uncle has his 1917 Colt.

[ApplegateRanch]

One is a buoy; the other is a guoyl.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

DANG!