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<p>[QUOTE="Kasperscuriosities, post: 131071, member: 404"]This is a true story...</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was a kid my mom bought or found (not sure where it came from) a mortar shell that she thought would make a nice addition to her decor. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Anyways, she painted it with little Geshia girls and flowers. It was used mainly as a door stop. I remember very well playing with it when I was just a toddler. I remember sitting on the ground and knocking it over and rolling it around the house. Well, one day a neighbor who was also a Sheriff came over and was looking at it. He said to my mom, "have you ever had this checked out? This looks like it could be a live." She said no and so he agreed to have it taken to be x-rayed or something. Guess what? Yep. It was real. Yep. It was live. They disarmed it and he asked my mom what she wanted to do with it. She said oh you can keep it. LOL! I had basically been playing with a live bomb. This thing was huge. It was about a foot tall and maybe four inches around.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kasperscuriosities, post: 131071, member: 404"]This is a true story... When I was a kid my mom bought or found (not sure where it came from) a mortar shell that she thought would make a nice addition to her decor. :facepalm: Anyways, she painted it with little Geshia girls and flowers. It was used mainly as a door stop. I remember very well playing with it when I was just a toddler. I remember sitting on the ground and knocking it over and rolling it around the house. Well, one day a neighbor who was also a Sheriff came over and was looking at it. He said to my mom, "have you ever had this checked out? This looks like it could be a live." She said no and so he agreed to have it taken to be x-rayed or something. Guess what? Yep. It was real. Yep. It was live. They disarmed it and he asked my mom what she wanted to do with it. She said oh you can keep it. LOL! I had basically been playing with a live bomb. This thing was huge. It was about a foot tall and maybe four inches around.[/QUOTE]
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