Dead lucky?🤔

[Dingo40]

Some people are just lucky not to be dead!

Milford Haven: Garden ornament turns out to be live bomb

Sian and Jeffrey Edwards had always assumed the 64lb projectile in their garden was a "dummy".

www.bbc.com

 

[Rosie C]

I notice what looks like two hammers in the lower left of the photo too...?

 

[losthobos]

I notice what looks like two hammers in the lower left of the photo too...?

West Ham Supporters

 

[Ffingers]

I attended high school in Milford Haven and at the time the Castlemartin firing range nearby was still active.
There has a lot of material from which to make "Trench Handicraft" imitations etc. as well as lots of other useful things from the brass casings which got smuggled out of there.
How the heck they got some of the larger shell casings out of there I have no idea, but the commonality of the shapes of umbrella stands, plant pots, chicken feeders, bird baths etc. etc. indicated that the Ministry of Defence (War Department?) was certainly not getting its "bang for its buck" nor "the full quid" from its scrap metal sales.

 

[Rosie C]

West Ham Supporters

Maybe. I'm reading the article about previous owners having set it in concrete, and then in the photo there are a pair of hammers beside it and I'm thinking "surely not?"