Artillery doorsteps now?

[matgb]

El Reg reports:

Royal Navy bomb disposal experts were called to a house in Paignton, Devon, after a tip-off that 68-year-old Thelma Bonnett was rather ill-advisedly using a live First World War German shell as a doorstop

The Daily Mail informs us:

At any time during all those years, however, it could have exploded.

And local newspaper rag The Herald Express confirms:

it had been used by a pensioner as a doorstop for more than 20 years

I was born in Paignton. She seems to fit the demographics much better than I ever did...

Comments

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Grannies often play doorstop russian roulette where you're from, then? We can't afford WWII shells up here, we have to use one of the children... [/four yorkshiremen]

[matgb]

World War One shell. But yeah, they are all a bit mad.

[js84.livejournal.com]

I was pleased to find a link to that image macro generator. Will come in handy.

I was not so pleased when I realised that lolpensionerz.com does not exist...

[matgb]

You could set up a lolpensioners community on LJ though; it'd get a huge number of members fairly quickly. IT's LJ, they always do. There's even a Lolporn somewhere.