Boy Finds Grenade Among Easter Eggs
A three-year-old boy in Britain sparked a panic over the weekend when he found a live grenade among Easter eggs. The bomb squad was immediately called and was able to detonate the World War II grenade.
Stuart Moffatt, 34, told The Daily Mail that his children were participating in an egg search in Somerset. He noticed that the three-year-old was standing over what Moffatt thought was a rock or brown egg. "We were beginning to count up the eggs at the end of the hunt, and I saw a boy of three standing on an object."
"It was brown and about four inches high. It looked like an Easter egg, but it was a hand grenade-I was shocked. The boy who was standing on it thought it was a rock."
Moffatt immediately told the hunt's organizers, who began gathering the children and moving to safety. The bomb squad moved in and was able to detonate the bomb without any injury. According to local trucker Paul Gibbard, the grenade could have been left behind during World War II.
"Apparently there used to be an American Army base in Holford during the Second World War," he told The Daily Mail. "I think it has something to do with that."
There were Army barracks in Somerset, England during the war, but these have now been taken down and been replaced by an arts center, according to the Airfield Information Exchange. Huffington Post reader Normtuba has added that there is danger in the United States from bases "contaminated with live ordnance."
"Almost every military museum curator in the service museums has one or more stories about close encounters of the explosive kind," he stated. "It is no great surprise to me that this kid found a live grenade. This kind of thing happens a lot more often than you would think."
