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Offline BeeTee

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German police find 'WW2 bomb' was big courgette
« on: Friday, 03 November, 2017 @ 19:05:16 »
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A German pensioner feared a monster courgette he found in his garden was an unexploded World War Two bomb and called the police.
The 5kg (11-pound) courgette had probably been thrown over a hedge into the 81 year old's garden, police said.
Luckily no evacuation was required in Bretten, a town near Karlsruhe in south-west Germany.
The 40cm (16-inch) vegetable - also called zucchini - "really did look like a bomb", police said.
Once police had reassured him following the early morning call-out, the pensioner disposed of the courgette himself. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41857694

Offline Maik

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Re: German police find 'WW2 bomb' was big courgette
« Reply #1 on: Friday, 03 November, 2017 @ 22:24:11 »
A big courgette!?! He had a marrow escape.


Could've been worse, he could've baked a WWII bomb he'd dug up, thinking it was a zucchini.