Gulfport, Mississippi Authorities including the Gulfport Police, Biloxi Police, and the BATF responded to a residential house after the resident, a 33-year old man, checked into the hospital with injuries sustained from a munition. Reportedly, the man was dismantling the munition at this house in order to recycle the metal when it exploded. During the inspection of the house, Authorities discovered numerous munitions (specific numbers and types not reported) requiring disposal. The munitions were safely disposed of on-site after neighbors were evacuated.

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Victoria, Australia a local resident walking his dog in a park came across a munition item. Not having a cell phone handy and concerned that children may find the munition, the man decided to carry the item himself to the police station.

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Kauai, Hawaii A teenager walking along the beach came across an encrusted munition item. Curious in his new find, the teen decided to carry the item back to his parent house located in Kapaa. When his parents noticed the item on their porch the following morning, they called the Kaua'i Police Department.

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Trapper Creek, Alaska A property owner called the police for assistance in disposing of some old dynamite he had stored on his property. The dynamite, all 550 pounds of it, were being stored in an abandon station wagon that served as a make-shift storage bunker. Reportedly, the man purchased a surplus boxcar from a railroad company back in 1996 which contained the dynamite. The man moved the dynamite into the station wagon where it sat for nearly 15 years. Over that time, the dynamite crystallized and thus had become unstable making it extremely sensitive.

Alaska State Troopers initially evacuated a 400-yard radius around the station wagon before calling the EOD unit from Elmendorf Air Force Base for technical assistance. EOD responded and recommended a much larger safety exclusion zone, 6,600 feet or 5 square mile radius due to the explosive weight of the dynamite.

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St. Francis, Wisconsin A 70-year old man rehabbing his bathroom discovered a munition item buried behind the wall. The munition was found behind the installation in the wall that was removed to access the plumbing. The man pulled the munition from the wall and placed in the lawn next to his garage before calling police.

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DeLand, Florida A widow clearing out some belongings of her late husband decided she no longer needed the two hand grenades her late WWII veteran husband had used for bookends. So she decided to give the grenades away to a neighbor. The neighbor reportedly pulled the pin out from one of the grenades and then quickly re-inserted it after getting nervous that the grenade may be live. The neighbor then called the police who responded with a local bomb squad.

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Leavenworth, Kansas a vehicle carrying a live mortar fuze caused the temporary closure of the front gate at Fort Leavenworth. The unidentified occupants reportedly drove the mortar fuze to the gate in an effort to get the military to dispose of the item. It's unclear where the occupants of the vehicle obtained the fuze but authorities do not suspect that there was any malicious intent involved in their actions.

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Kalpitiya, Sri Lanka A man was killed and another injured when the two reportedly used an unexploded mortar round to open a king coconut. The two found the mortar round at a nearby military training range.

Fayetteville, North Carolina A contractor that worked on Fort Bragg was stopped at the front gate as part of a routine security check as he was attempting to access the base. The security personnel decided to search the man's car where they found three military munitions in the trunk. The civilian contractor was detained by the military police while the FBI and the 722nd EOD Company responded to investigate the find. EOD determined that the munitions were inert WWII era 3.5 inch bazooka rounds.

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Berowra Heights, Australia A family who recently purchased an older five bedroom home were in the process of renovated their new home when they came across an old munition item in the garage under a dusty workbench. Initially, the family considered reporting the find to police but reportedly did not do so right away due to concerns that the report may cause an evacuation/interruption of a nearby elementary school. So the family kept the munition in the garage for ten days until the school was on break before calling police. During that time, the family reportedly posed for several photos with the munition and the father even tried to clean the rust off of the munitions with a wire brush.

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