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Family Photographs Kids with 'Beach Buoy' That Was Actually a Bomb - World News
ABC News Radio ^ | 8-19-2015

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnewsradioonline.com ...


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To: Citizen Zed
here's a re-purposed WWII mine...

kinda cool

21 posted on 08/19/2015 12:18:07 PM PDT by TangibleDisgust ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
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To: Robert DeLong

Mussels for everyone!!


23 posted on 08/19/2015 12:34:41 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Hillary, you magnificent b**ch! I read your book!")
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To: Kirkwood

Great series.


24 posted on 08/19/2015 12:39:30 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Citizen Zed; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna

“Those aren’t buoys!”


25 posted on 08/19/2015 12:40:37 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: gov_bean_ counter

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


26 posted on 08/19/2015 12:42:03 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Larry Lucido
This family?

Bomb? "Whatever."


27 posted on 08/19/2015 12:46:17 PM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: Gamecock

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


28 posted on 08/19/2015 12:46:51 PM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: colorado tanker
Wow, that be a whole lotta barnacles!

Actually, mussels. Tasty!

29 posted on 08/19/2015 12:54:07 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Chuckster

Thanks...


30 posted on 08/19/2015 1:09:54 PM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: Army Air Corps; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ..
DARWIN: "Missed him by *this* much, Chief!"


31 posted on 08/19/2015 2:20:46 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Falling Hare
32 posted on 08/19/2015 2:31:56 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

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


33 posted on 08/19/2015 3:36:18 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: Squantos

Ping to #21, that’s badazz.


34 posted on 08/19/2015 3:43:57 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: JimRed

White wine garlic and onion sauce. Mmmmm!


35 posted on 08/19/2015 4:00:43 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Tijeras_Slim

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..


36 posted on 08/19/2015 4:56:24 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: txeagle
"Darned small keys on this phone..."

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

37 posted on 08/19/2015 5:47:33 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Squantos

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.


38 posted on 08/19/2015 6:20:12 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Larry Lucido

One is a buoy; the other is a guoyl.


39 posted on 08/19/2015 6:42:54 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Citizen Zed; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...
DANG!
40 posted on 08/19/2015 8:01:25 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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