As a kid I always thought that the flying car would be mainstream when I became an adult. That didn’t happened.
Hopefully stuff like this will make it a reality before I die.
A weight used to prop open a front door for more than 20 years was a German World War I shell packed with explosives.
The time-delay bomb had been in the family since the end of the war in 1918 – played with by generations of children and even kept on the mantelpiece at one time.
Army bomb disposal experts, who took it to a quarry to detonate it after a tip-off from a concerned neighbour, were amazed it had never exploded.
The drama happened at the home of Thelma Bonnett, 68, in Paignton, Devon. She said: ‘I had no idea it was dangerous. Grandfather picked it up on his travels with the Merchant Navy in 1918.
‘When I was young, five of us children would play with it. ‘I don’t think he would have brought it back if he’d known it was live.’
Ms Bonnett’s neighbour, John Malinovskis reported the 18cm (7in) shell after spotting it one day on a visit.
He said: ‘I put two and two together and thought, “that really shouldn’t be thereâ€.’
The bomb squad said a firing mechanism had been activated during World War I but the shell failed to go off.
The mechanism had since fallen off but the ‘live’ explosive could have gone off at any moment.
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For instance, Saving Private Ryan (which should have won the Best Picture Oscar) has a total of 22 different firearms, all of which are described in detail.
Every day for nearly 30 years, Walid Elkhatib has sold doughnuts. Glazed, chocolate frosted, Bavarian Kreme and other varieties. As a Dunkin’ Donuts franchisee, he expanded the menu to include breakfast sandwiches, such as egg and cheese bagels.
But he drew the line at serving sandwiches with sausage, ham or bacon because his Muslim faith forbids him from eating or handling pork — a departure from company policy that led Dunkin’ Donuts in 2002 to threaten it would take away his two Chicago-area franchises.
So for five years Elkhatib has been waging a legal battle against the Boston chain claiming racial bias, not religious discrimination. The federal court of appeals in Chicago last month reinstated the case, blurring the lines between religion and race.