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.
Just sniff them first, that’s all I’m sayin.
People do extremely gross things.
If I was you, I’d search teh giggles for “gave my neighbor a butt zucchini”
It’s more prevalent than you think. I think. I’m sure. It’s rule 34.
Sniff your random zucchinis fellas, some might be a bit fragrant.
Could become the basis of zero-tolerance rules against zucchini.
Gad. Zukes.
Haha, I know the people well. No butt zucchini here ;)
It’s funny in that no matter how often I pick zucchini in the garden there area always one or two that manage to hid and grow that large.
As Mae West might have said in this situation: “Is that a zucchini in your hand or are you just glad to see me?”
No, they’re still very good, but you have to remove the seeds because by then they are starting to develop a hard seedcoat.
No, they’re still very good, but you have to remove the seeds because by then they are starting to develop a hard seedcoat.
[Though this one looks a wee bit moldy]
In our neighborhood everyone grew zucchini, peppers and tomatoes and cukes in abundance due to the rich soil- so it was not at all uncommon for whoever had too much in a given week to put their surplus produce in big paper bags and cardboard boxes and sneak them onto other neighbors' porches at night or in the wee morning hours... it was a kind of joke. Sometimes it worked out great and a neighbor would make a bunch of zucchini bread or can tomato sauce and the stuff would come back.
“sneak them onto other neighbors’ porches at night”
LOL! One night we snuck over to the neighbor’s and put a bumper sticker on their car. It said
“Sometimes when I laugh, I pee.”
We all spent the next few weeks checking our own bumpers before we left the house!
False Alarm After Man Mistakes Large Ananas (Pineapple)in his Garden for WWII Grenade
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 grenade 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 grenade, but rather, a large pineapple - much to the senior citizen’s relief.
Great video. Thanks for posting
Any gardener who cannot tell the difference either needs new glasses or should not be a gardener.
Depends on variety if they are edible that large. Most of the time they can be peeled and if the center where seeds reside is too pithy and seeds too large cut it out. The remaining flesh is perfectly good for sautes, frying, roasting or shredding to add to casseroles and soups. Zucchini hide and it doesn’t take long to get that big.
Moral of the story: If you're a German Zucchini, there are worse fates than being mistaken for a bomb.
A woman in Maine told me that if you mistakenly left a car window open while shopping (around this time of year, in fact) you’d almost certainly return to find a bag of zucchini on the seat.
When we would forget some on the vine and they got big like that, our kids would see how far they could throw them in to the wooded area at our former home. It was fun for them and the zucchini aren’t good for much at that size.
SOMEBODY NEEDS GLASSES!
In the south, people have to lock their car doors at church from August through October to avoid finding a back seat full of zucchini!
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