I was very excited to read this article this afternoon and I had to share it with you
Unexploded bomb found in Ballarat museum | Herald Sun.
It is good to see that the tradition of unexploded bombs being found in inappropriate places (like ovens, octopuses and sharks) continues to this day.
An unexploded World War I bomb was found in a Ballarat museum by a volunteer doing some packing. Possible death was probably not what that person expected to find amongst the exhibits!
The kids were excited when I read the article to them, we have been to this museum, the thought of being in a room with something like that was utterly delicious to them. They wanted to rush back there immediately! They were disappointed when I told them the bomb would be taken care of by then and would not be a danger any more…
From now on I expect every time we go to a museum they will view each piece of military hardware with suspicion! Or is that anticipation? 🙂
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Crikey! As soon as I posted this the ‘suggested tags’ asked if I wanted to add the following tags to this post; vacation, travel, libya, politics. No, no, no and no!!! Eeeek! 🙂
Hahahaha… I love your kids! 🙂
They are very funny 🙂 They had a friend over tonight and the three of them were so full of excited hope that something like that would happen to them, it was hilarious. Little boys are so much fun!
oh yeah, gotta love the sugessted tags, mina always have vacation and travel… WTH?! Love the line “…Possible death was probably not what that person expected to find amongst the exhibits!..” oh and boys and their excited hope.. love it 🙂
Boys are so funny with the things that get them excited aren’t they? We all know that not much changes when they get older either 😉
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You’re doing great.
Thank you so much! 😀 It is so good to see that other people enjoy this weird stuff too, the world is a very funny place 🙂
As you say: there is an inexhaustible supply of old war bombs just knocking about. Just this year in Britain a three year old found a WW2 hand grenade whilst taking part in an Easter egg hunt!
FM
There is, isn’t there. My kids live in eternal hope! 🙂 I remember that news item about the kid thinking a grenade was an easter egg, it made my day! Not the parents day though, obviously. 😉
It’s kind of fun reading this kind of thing after the fact but I’m feeling a bit peeved that a museum could be so negligent for god knows how long. I mean, seriously? That bomb is almost one hundred years old and no-one noticed it was live until now????
Negligent, but kind of exciting. Just imagine what new discovery could be around the corner if there are bombs in the museum today!
I expect people looked at that bomb over the years and though ‘gee that looks real’. I guess it would take a person who actually knew what they were looking for to identify whether or not it was actually dangerous.
lol – finding a mummy in the basement is exciting, finding something that could go kaboom is a little too explosive for me :p
You are never going to look at museum exhibits the same way either, are you? 😉 My boys will look at them with hopeful anticipation, but you will be checking for exits!
lmao – oh how well you know me!!!!!!
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