Home Construction Project Results in UXO Find
Bournemouth, United Kingdom a homeowner and his friend working on a new deck in his back garden made a shocking discovery when the uncovered an ordnance item.
While digging the holes for one of the support pilings, the two encountered "metal in ground." They began digging into and around the metal object to dislodge it.
As they uncovered the item enough to get a good look the item, one of them jokingly said, "this may be a bomb" because it was round and was described as "bullet shaped."
Describing the incident to reporters, the homeowner stated, "I then told my wife who said we should check the internet. We did that and immediately stopped work and started to think we have a bomb in the garden."
He went on to say, "We got so scared as there was a bomb in my garden. She rang 999 and was told to stop work until the police came, and we had to wait for the bomb squad to come over from Portsmouth."
The responding bomb squad arrived and cordoned off the area. The bomb squad reportedly confirmed with EOD that the item was safe to move. The ordnance was safely removed for proper disposal.