Left Hand Canyon, Colorado Police were called to the house of a 96-year old woman that recently passed away after an old wooden dynamite box was found by a neighbor. The box was labeled "DuPont Explosives, High Explosives" and had a date stamp of Oct. 9, 1950 on it.

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Waupun, Milwaukee The Milwaukee Bomb Squad received a call from the Waupun Heritage Museum after a visitor questioned the safety of military memorabilia in a display case. The memorabilia included two Civil War cannon balls, two mortars, a large projectile and an explosive bullet manufactured in the early 1890s.

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Pownal, Vermont a local resident came across an antique railroad emergency kit that contained explosives. The explosives labeled "railroad torpedoes" were designed for railroad employees to use to signal an upcoming hazard. The emergency kits have not been in use since the 1970s. Each railroad torpedo is equivalent to a quarter stick of dynamite. The man discovered who discovered them called authorities who responded with technical support from the Vermont State Bomb Squad. In all, 24 railroad torpedoes were safely destroyed by the bomb squad.

Cumberland, Maryland The Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 172 was caught by surprise when an official from the State Fire Marshal's office identified an ordnance item hanging in their museum as live. The 2.75-inch rocket had reportedly been on display since a local Vietnam veteran donated it to the chapter about two years ago.

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Cressy, Australia workers in an area that once a WWII era Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base uncovered a strange round object with a lever attached to it. The workers, who were not UXO or EOD technicians, immediately stopped all work and evacuated the area thinking that the item in question was an old WWII era anti tank landmine.

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