Virginia Woman Catches Cannonball Magnet Fishing
Colonial Heights, Virginia A woman magnet fishing in Swift Creek pulled in something a little different than her normal scrap metal - a live Civil War-era cannonball. The woman told reporters that she was using a "Magnetar Magnetics 1400-pound pull" when she "hooked" the large heavy object. Once she pulled the catch up, she noticed it was ordnance and she proceeded to notify the Colonial Heights Police Department, who then alerted State Police of the potential "unexploded ordnance."
Police responded to evacuate and lose the park while State Police bomb technicians safely detonated what was identified as a Civil War-era cannonball.