The shell, believed to be from the first world war, was found in London, Ontario, at the end of a driveway next to a bag of trashPolice in Canada were forced to call in the bomb squad after a resident put out a live artillery shell, believed to be from the first world war era, with the rubbish. Resident Danny Vellow stumbled across the two-foot-long ordnance in the Ontario city of London on Tuesday as he was heading to a doctor’s appointment. “Lo and behold, I almost stepped on the bomb,” he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Once they arrived, the explosive ordnance disposal officers identified the explosive as a live shell from the first world war era and said it contained 20 to 30 pounds of explosives. Vellow believed the shell might have been left behind by tenants who had been recently evicted.

Source: The Guardian May 17, 2018 19:55 UTC