A resident of the English city of Bath, Somerset County, caught a combat grenade on a fishing rod with a neodymium magnet received as a gift for Christmas in the Kenneth-Avon Canal, reports The Mirror.
28-year-old electrician Toby Scott (Toby Scott) is fond of “magnetic fishing” – the search for metal objects at the bottom of reservoirs using a fishing rod with a magnet attached to it. He received a powerful neodymium magnet as a Christmas present and decided to give it a try.
On Sunday, December 27, Scott, along with his 35-year-old friend Elliott Bromfield (Elliott Bromfield) came to the embankment of the Kenneth Avoy Canal and threw a magnet tied to a rope into the water. First, the men fished out a part from a toy car, then threw the magnet into the water several more times and caught a WWII war grenade.
Friends took a few photos, and then carefully lowered the grenade into the water. After that, the British called the police. The police officers who arrived at the scene blocked the street for three hours. The specialists cut off the magnet along with the grenade and put them in a metal box to later destroy the ammunition in a safe place.
Scott stated that the lesson learned will cause him to abandon further experiments with magnetic fishing.
A neodymium magnet costs about 14.8 thousand rubles and is considered one of the most powerful magnets.
Earlier it was reported that a WWII grenade exploded in the kitchen near a resident of the English city of Deal, Kent, after she and her daughter took the ammunition for a fossil and brought it home. The grenade exploded after a woman tried to pierce it with a hot needle.