Dog, while digging for bone, unearths decades-old unexploded bomb in Florida home
Image of dog with bone in his mouth.
A dog, while digging in the backyard of her owner to find a bone, ended up discovering something rather unexpected.
Homeowner Mathew Sims said that his pup, named Baby, was playing in the backyard of the house in Jacksonville, Florida when the rusted object was dug up by her near the fence line, said the police.
Speaking to FOX 30, Sims said, "You couldn’t tell what it was until you started pulling it up. Once I got it halfway out, I was like oh, I know what this is, let me gently put this back down."
The metallic item discovered was actually an unexploded military bomb, which was decades old.
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"OK is this live?" Sims remembered the first thoughts when he picked up the bomb with his bare hands last Wednesday (Mar 20). "You panic, then you drop," he said.
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The weapon was carefully laid back by Sims at the place where his dog discovered it and he then called the authorities. He added that the bomb weighed nearly 10 pounds and was around a foot long.
As per a police report, the amount of decay present on the weapon hinted that the bomb had been underground for years.
Bomb squad confiscates the bomb
A bomb squad reached hishome, which was located on 15th Street E, and the neighbourhood was evacuated.
Sims said that it was a matter of relief that the bomb was discovered by the dog and was removed from his house.
Meanwhile, his neighbour Carla Smith said that she was not worried about the strange discovery.
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"We just watched. I wasn’t scared because I’ve been around people who have found artefacts in the land," she said while speaking to the news outlet.
"To me, it was interesting to watch. They did their thing and they were out of here in minutes," she added.
The antique bomb was found by the dog two months after a man found a rusty rocket in Bellevue, Washington state. It was said to have been an old Cold War nuclear missile.
Meanwhile, an unexploded hand grenade was discovered by a nine-year-old boy in his garden in Yarcombe, East Devon, England.The grenade was removed by the police and detonated in a close field.
(With inputs from agencies)