Weymouth woman 'threw unexploded WW2 bomb across garden'

BBC ^ | May 3, 2020 | BBC

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There might have been hundreds dropped. This one just failed to go off.

[wally_bert]

An excellent series.

[Hot Tabasco]

"They said it was loaded and very dangerous so they took it away and the next thing I heard was they'd disposed of it on Weymouth Beach.

Didn't say it was detonated, they just disposed of it. In other words, they laughed and threw it in the garbage.........

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There’s a video of it going “BOOM” at the Weymouth Beach. Some really weird noise when it goes off, too.

[PLMerite]

Looks like it might be a 2in mortar:

Minus the tail fins, of course.

[Hot Tabasco]

There’s a video of it going “BOOM”

I suspect the go boom was the result of the following......LOL!

we were assisting EOD with a controlled explosion on the beach!

[SamAdams76]

They will be digging up WW2 bombs a thousand years from now.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

WW 1, too, in France.

In WW I, artillery training took place in the hills above Stanford University where I and many other people hike. The shells were thrown 3 to 4 miles into the hills. One was found about 15 years ago during the construction of a new house!