Pensioner used live artillery shell as a doorstop for 20 years

[Foxy Brown]

For decades the seven-inch-long shell had been a family memento, polished and given pride of place on the mantlepiece.

The First World War relic also served as a toy and finally, for the past 20 years, as a front doorstop at the home of 68-year-old Thelma Bonnett.

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

The German squat shell was live, packed with its original payload and with its firing mechanism primed, experts have said.

[nop]

Finally the bomb was put to rest.  Would be more fun if it is an alien weapon or an alien technology.      I watched too much anime.