Essex Boy Juggles With Live Bombs
AS the youth riot in London, Ben Stannard, 13, tosses the World War Two bombs in the air over Margaretting, Essex, and starts to juggle.
Ben, a Hylands School pupil, tells the Essex Chronicle:
“I was waiting for my mum to pick me up and they caught my eye. I thought they were strange, but just bits of concrete, so I started to throw them up and down. Then I noticed the serial number on one of them. When my granddad died he left me a shell casing and it had similar numbers, so I grew concerned, put them down gently and told my mum when she arrived.”
Says mum Molly:
“I didn’t take him seriously at first. He is always scavenging around and finding all sorts of different things. I am an antique dealer and get him all sorts of stuff, and he likes collecting things. But when he told me about the serial number, I told him to stay away from them and we told the farmer. He called the police, and the bomb squad then came along, confirmed they were incendiary bombs – probably hidden by the Home Guard as they were English. They then put sandbags around them and promptly blew them up. I thought I am so glad they didn’t go off when he was holding them.”
Or while on a day trip to London…
Posted: 9th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
