Lepton, West Yorkshire When Engineer Steve Grierson discovered a 40mm shell with his metal detector at Storthes Hall, Kirkburton, he wrapped the wartime munition in a blanket and loaded it into the bed of his truck. Ten miles in to his drive home, he began to have second thoughts. He pulled over in Lepton to take another look at it.

It was then he discovered the shell had a percussion cap, signaling to Grierson that the bomb was live. He called police and bomb squad experts raced 70 miles from Catterick Garrison to Knotty Lane, Lepton, to carry out a controlled explosion in a nearby field.

Tooele, Utah Mustard-filled munitions were found during the cleanup of a Utah chemical depot, according to Army Spokeswoman Alaine Grieser. The Deseret Chemical Depot, a 19,000-acre facility whose Chemical Agent Disposal Facility was closed in 2012, still contains 27 informal dumps where weapons and debris were burned in the years before the environmental impact of such actions were understood. Among the munitions found were buried containers of mustard, a liquid blistering agent, contained in non-explosive mortar cartridges.

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Almeria, Spain An explosion at the Alvarez Sotomayor de Viator military base in the southern Spain killed three bomb disposal technicians and injured two others. The explosion reportedly occurred near a mortar firing position mounted on an armored personnel carrier. The explosion occurred as the troops were returning from an exercise. The cause remains under investigation

Dorest, United Kingdom Some people go to the beach to pick up sea shells, but two men in Worbarrow Bay in Dorset were recently seen collecting shells of a completely different nature. Reports from a concerned beachgoer claim the two were carrying two unexploded projectiles over their shoulders.

The photograph below shows the alleged munitions collectors walking off the beach carrying the munitions from the area which is part of the 7,000-acre Lulworth Military Range used by the Army for tank firing practice.

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Jackson County, Alabama Members of the Jackson County Historical and Genealogy Society got a little more than they bargained for as the sorted through more than 100 boxes of artifacts and historical items retrieved from the Old Spanish Fort Museum following Hurricane Katrina. To the shock and fear of the members, they unpacked a cannonball coated with a suspicious looking black powder.

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London, England James McCormick, a British inventor, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling more than $50 million worth of fake IED detectors to the Iraq Interior Ministry amid an Al Qaida bombing campaign lasting from 2007 to 2010. According to court records, the anti-IED devices, called "Advanced Selection Equipment", were based on golf ball finders produced in the US.

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Eglin Air Force Base, Florida The Navy's EOD school was evacuated after an unexploded 500-pound bomb was discovered near the property earlier this week. The WWII-era bomb was found about 150 yards from the school's property line, said Lois Walsh, a spokeswoman for Eglin Air Force Base.

The bomb was reportedly found by a hunter in the woods, and according to Walsh, posed no threat to the community. Although there are many experienced EOD technicians at the joint-operations school, the Eglin 96th EOD flight unit was called in to handle the situation, because it is tasked with responding to UXO found in the area.

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Eglin Air Force Base, Florida The Navy's joint operations EOD school held a somber ceremony to mark the deaths of 11 graduates killed in the line of duty last year. Families of the fallen and military dignitaries were there to honor the men in the annual ceremony as their names were added to a memorial wall. The 11 deaths in 2012 bring the number of military EOD Technicians killed in duty to 298 since World War II.

The 11 men ranged from 22 to 39 years old. They came from all across the country, serving with the Army, Marines, Navy, and Air Force. The 11 included:

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Wailuku, Hawaii An unexploded bomb, left over from World War II, was found in a Puunene sugar cane field during plowing operations. According to reports, the aerial bomb was discovered by an employee of the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company during a weed control operation.

Police were called to the scene. They photographed the item and send the images sent to local Army EOD unit. EOD dispatched a team and properly disposed of the item through open detonation. No injuries were reported. The area where the bomb was found was the site of a military training base during World War II.