01/04/2022 Regno Unito, Inghilterra, Yorkshire e Humber, North Yorkshire, Ryedale
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A family’s Mother’s Day fishing trip turned into a bomb squad mission after a WWII mortar bomb was found. A mum from Hull and her 10-year-old son went on a bonding trip to Helmsley on Sunday (March 27). The market town is one of their “favourite” places to enjoy some downtime and to do some magnet fishing. The school boy sat for a while by River Rye before finding a mysterious item. The pair, who wish to remain unnamed, believed it to be a large piece of camping stove or farm machinery and took their treasure home – but they were left “shockingly” mistaken. The Yorkshire mum drove over 50 miles not knowing that she had an unexploded WWII mortar bomb on her back seat. Arriving back in Hull, the mum decided to try and identify what their “treasure” could be. She began to think “something was weird” about it and looked at pictures online to compare. To her surprise, she discovered the machinery looked identical to a WWII bomb. The mum called the police to ask for advice before a bomb squad was called to her home the following day (Monday, March 28). She texted her mum, Carol Young, in the meantime to let her know what happened. Carol said: “My daughter contacted me on Monday night to tell me the bomb squad was on their way from Catterick after she contacted the police. I just couldn’t believe what I was hearing. “She told me it was to do with what my grandson had found whilst magnet fishing in Helmsley on Mother’s Day. I was in disbelief. “She sent me photographs of what it looked like and she said to me ‘you can’t just make this up’.” It wasn’t until they got back home that she realised it was a motor bomb.”
Photo-Source: examinerlive.co.uk
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