Dangerous potatoes

Post by **Skylace** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:08 pm

A 74-year-old Italian woman was shocked to find a live grenade in a sack of potatoes she had bought at a market.

Olga Mauriello, from a small town near Naples, had put the potatoes into water to peel them when she discovered the mud-covered, pine cone-shaped grenade.

She alerted the neighbours, who in turn called the police.

Officers detonated the grenade on Wednesday in a park in the town of San Giorgio Cremano. It is thought to have come from a farm in France.

The grenade had no safety pin and was still active. It is believed to be a type used by the US Army in Europe during World War II.

"If I hadn't felt its weight, I wouldn't even have realised that it was a bomb," she told Reuters news agency.
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If she wasn't careful she would have had some fast instant mash!

IRiSHMaFIA · Post by **IRiSHMaFIA** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:34 pm

Instant mash indeed! The oddest thing I've seen in a bag of potatoes is a potato bug I think it's called. I touched it by mistake and saw it moving and screamed and ran out the kitchen.

Just another thing to add to my building phobia list

girldorksrule · Post by **girldorksrule** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:11 pm

IRiSHMaFIA wrote:Instant mash indeed! The oddest thing I've seen in a bag of potatoes is a potato bug I think it's called. I touched it by mistake and saw it moving and screamed and ran out the kitchen.

Just another thing to add to my building phobia list

And that is why I buy them individually!

Post by **eefanincan** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:13 pm

girldorksrule wrote:
IRiSHMaFIA wrote:Instant mash indeed! The oddest thing I've seen in a bag of potatoes is a potato bug I think it's called. I touched it by mistake and saw it moving and screamed and ran out the kitchen.

Just another thing to add to my building phobia list
And that is why I buy them individually!

Good point girlsdork..... and I'm with you on the phobia thing, Irish!