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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3595062, member: 10461&quot;]People are still killed every year by unexploded ordinance from both World Wars, not to mention even the American Civil War here in the States. </p><p><br /></p><p>I once read a story (perhaps apocryphal, but plausible nonetheless) of a farmer&#039;s wife in the early 1900s who found three Civil War Parrott projectiles (artillery shells) that had been plowed up in her fields.&nbsp; She fashioned a sort of tripod out of them, to put her cast iron laundry kettle on.&nbsp; Then she put wood underneath the kettle and lit a fire to heat up the water for the washing. </p><p><br /></p><p>The whole thing blew up, in rather spectacular fashion.&nbsp; Luckily for her, she had gone back into the house when it blew, but the house suffered broken windows and damage to the roof and walls, and there was shreds of her laundry in the trees for hundreds of yard around.</p><p><br /></p><p>I read of someone else (a modern detectorist) finding a CW artillery shell, and tapping the rust off the thing with a <i>hammer</i>.&nbsp; He too was lucky it didn&#039;t go off.</p><p><br /></p><p>Others are not so lucky.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]qqMOjpFH6g8[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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