Posted on 11/03/2017 8:53:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Police were alerted on Thursday when a man in a south German town called them and told them he had found a Second World War bomb in his garden.
But when the police arrived at the 81-year-old man’s house in Betten, Baden-Württemberg, they did not find a bomb - explosive ordinance disposal services did not have to be called after all.
After close inspection, officers deemed that what the man had found was not a bomb, but rather, a large courgette - much to the senior citizen’s relief.
Approximately 40 centimetres in length with a weight of about five kilograms, the vegetable is thought to have been thrown over the hedge into the man’s garden by an unknown person.
According to the police, the man then took care of disposing of the courgette.
But it beats us whether this means he threw it in the rubbish bin, gave it to someone else or cut it up, cooked it and ate it himself.
The man who mistook his squash for a bomb.
Idiot was probably in the Luftwaffe and bombed Pearl Harbor too...
I guess that is a pretty big zucchini, but I don’t know how it would be mistaken for a bomb ;-)
My wife grew a zucchini like that once, and it frightened our parrot because it was bigger than him.
I’ve always assumed that they’re not very good for cooking, when they get that big (?)
Don’t tell Rosie O’Donnell.
Further proof green vegetables are dangerous and do not belong on your plate with the meat and potatoes.
Lol
Mature zucchinis can become gigantic. Like some pumpkins, they can thrive off of neglect.
The inner flesh or vegetable is still usable. You may have to slice the dark skin off first, but yes, it can still be cooked and digested. Just chop some onion, green bell peppers roasted chicken with the zucchini, maybe add some eggplant and sesame seed oil. Stir fry and serve hot.
If someone is chucking a 10 pound weener shaped vegetable into your backyard....you’d probably serve yourself best sniffing it before you eat it. God only knows where that’s been. I mean just google it. It’s disgusting.
XD
Courgette sounds like the name of a nice looking, fast moving car. It only has two seats, and a convertible top.
He’s 81 - maybe he should get cataract surgery before he finds any more “bombs”.
I make soup out of the really big ones. Take off the tough skin, scoop out the seeds and dice into small cubes. I love zucchini and potato soup.
Would you make such a soup out of something that has been chucked over your back wall and you just found one morning?
Not judging, just curious.
LOL
That’s okay - some people confused this guy for a Republican.
Funny stuff! At 2:20 one of the ‘victims’ eats his tormentor. So much for cats being obligate carnivores.
I think I saw this once on Hogan’s Heroes.
I’ve never had one chucked over a wall before. Usually people are so desperate to get rid of them, they end up at my house all the time!
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