Life’s Little Surprises
A 74 year old Italian woman got quite a surprise when she examined the sack of potatoes she purchased at her local market. She found a pineapple in there.
"I found a bomb in the potatoes," Olga Mauriello said in a telephone interview with Reuters.
"I went to the market to buy some potatoes and that's where the bomb was. But this bomb was covered in dirt, and I put it in water and got all dirt off. And then I realized 'It's a bomb'!"
Police said the pine cone-shaped grenade, which had no pin and was still active, was the same type used by U.S. soldiers in Europe in World War Two. Authorities believe the mix-up happened at a farm in France, where the grenade was plucked from the ground along with potatoes.
Of course stories like this are nothing new, either.
World news | Gaius February 28, 2007
By bird dog, March 1, 2007 @ 8:18 am
Funny. Glad she noticed before she tried to mash it.
By OldeForce, March 3, 2007 @ 12:24 am
The French – and more than a few other countries – are still finding munitions that date back as far as WWI.