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“I invited guests to play with bomb in my garden”
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June 3, 2026
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0:47Now PlayingFor 66 years Valerie Smith kept a bomb in her garden and invited her neighbours to play with it. 😮💣
Ever since her son brought it home as a child, the mysterious relic had been a "party piece" leaning against her Norfolk shed where guests would pick it up and pass it round during barbecues.
The 87-year-old saw no reason to worry; her ex-army husband had inspected it decades ago and declared it was "only a shell".
But on Tuesday a gardener spotted the device and alerted the police, causing all of her neighbours on Dowson Road, Norwich, to be evacuated.
- BBC Norfolk
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