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Skylace
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 Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: Dangerous potatoes |
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A 74-year-old Italian woman was shocked to find a live grenade in a sack of potatoes she had bought at a market.
Olga Mauriello, from a small town near Naples, had put the potatoes into water to peel them when she discovered the mud-covered, pine cone-shaped grenade.
She alerted the neighbours, who in turn called the police.
Officers detonated the grenade on Wednesday in a park in the town of San Giorgio Cremano. It is thought to have come from a farm in France.
The grenade had no safety pin and was still active. It is believed to be a type used by the US Army in Europe during World War II.
"If I hadn't felt its weight, I wouldn't even have realised that it was a bomb," she told Reuters news agency.
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If she wasn't careful she would have had some fast instant mash! |
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IRiSHMaFIA
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Instant mash indeed! The oddest thing I've seen in a bag of potatoes is a potato bug I think it's called. I touched it by mistake and saw it moving and screamed and ran out the kitchen.
Just another thing to add to my building phobia list  |
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girldorksrule
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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| IRiSHMaFIA wrote: | Instant mash indeed! The oddest thing I've seen in a bag of potatoes is a potato bug I think it's called. I touched it by mistake and saw it moving and screamed and ran out the kitchen.
Just another thing to add to my building phobia list |
And that is why I buy them individually! |
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eefanincan
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| girldorksrule wrote: | | IRiSHMaFIA wrote: | Instant mash indeed! The oddest thing I've seen in a bag of potatoes is a potato bug I think it's called. I touched it by mistake and saw it moving and screamed and ran out the kitchen.
Just another thing to add to my building phobia list |
And that is why I buy them individually! |
Good point girlsdork..... and I'm with you on the phobia thing, Irish! |
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