A WWII grenade exploded in the kitchen of a resident of the English town of Deal, Kent, after she and her daughter took the ammunition for a fossil and brought it home. The Daily Mail reports.
On Saturday, December 5, 38-year-old Jodie Crews and her eight-year-old daughter Isabella were walking their dogs on the beach and found something like a bone on the rocks. “We often collect glass and driftwood because we love making crafts,” said Crews.
Mother and daughter took the find home. Crews posted photographs of the find on archeology sites and received many responses. “One woman said that the find looked like ambergris – very expensive vomit of a sperm whale – and advised to pierce it with a hot needle,” – said the Englishwoman.
Crews decided to follow the advice. “As soon as I stuck the needle in, the shell melted a little, and the whole object turned into a ball of fire,” the Englishwoman emphasized. She threw the ammunition into the kitchen sink. The grenade melted the plastic window sill, damaged the sink and filled the house with smoke.
Isabella screamed and ran out into the street. “When my daughter was in the garden, I ran upstairs to pick up the cats and dogs,” said Crews. Meanwhile, neighbors have called rescuers.
She suggested that the 80-year-old grenade, preserved after World War II, could be washed ashore during a storm.
Earlier it was reported that in France a young man was blown up by a bomb during the First World War war. An 18-year-old history buff tried to find gold with a metal detector in a forest in Metz, Grand Est region.