A woman and her husband in northeast Maryland found a live World War I bomb while digging in a flower bed. After the startling discovery Wednesday, Kelly and Shannon Thomas, of Belair, left the round where they found it and called the Harford County Sheriff’s Office. “Bomb Technicians disposed of the potentially dangerous round on the scene.”WHILE PASSING THE TIME DURING CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, FAMILY FINDS LIVE WWI GRENADEThe unexploded military ordnance, determined to be a 37 MKI projectile, made its way to the Thomas’ flower bed from the Aberdeen Proving Ground on the Chesapeake Bay 10 miles away. “Unexploded military ordnance in the Bay and surrounding waters occasionally makes its way to the surface,” the news release said. “However, the discovery of military ordnance is not limited to tidal waters.”CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP“The discovery of military ordnance from WWI & WWII is not uncommon in Maryland, and these devices pose the same threat as the day they were originally manufactured,” according to the news release.

Source: Fox News June 19, 2020 14:03 UTC