The gardener was happily strimming away and decided to investigate further and on closer inspection the object looked suspiciously like a bomb at which point he made a quick retreat to inform the owner of the land who just happen to be some friends of ours.
The farm is fairly close to me and only a few hundred metres away as the shrapnel flies.
The bomb disposal team were immediately called out and took little time to weigh up the situation. There was no scratching of heads, no if's and's or buts they just produced a blanket to put over the bomb, (probably thought it was cold) before deciding that the best cause of action would be to blow the bloody thing up.
There was a slight bang, the earth moved a little and disappointingly there was no almighty mushroom cloud. Thankfully there was no radiation fallout (we hope), just enough explosive to render mark 2 above a wet trump as you can see in the video below which was reported and videoed by the National Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manhá.
It is thought that the bomb was once a souvenir from way back whenever, and the collector got tired of having it around waiting for another revolution and so dumped it in the nearest field.
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