Courgette (Zucchini) Mistaken for WW II Bomb

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This made international news. I see reports in the States and as far away as Australia. Here's the story in the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/03/monster-courgette-mistaken-second-world-war-bomb-germany/

And, here's the text of the story:

Police in Germany were relieved when a call about a potential unexploded Second World War bomb turned out to actually be a monster courgette.

A worried 81-year-old called police when he spotted the 16inch (40cm) vegetable- also known as a zucchini - in his garden.

Police rushed to the scene in Bretten, near the southwestern city of Karlsruhe, and quickly established it was nothing to be afraid of.

Officers who responded to the callout said the summer squash “really did look very like a bomb”.

The offending vegetable, which was very dark in colour, weighed about 11lb (5kg). Police believe someone threw it over a hedge into the garden.

“A homeowner excitedly rang Bretten police station and said that he had found a World War II bomb in his garden,” police said (translated).

“As it turned out to be a vegetable, the bomb disposal unit did not have to be called.

“The zucchini must have been thrown by an unknown person over the garden hedge of the ultimately relieved man, who took care of their disposal himself.”

Unexploded wartime bombs are unearthed frequently during construction work in Germany, often forcing authorities to evacuate tens of thousands of residents while they are defused.
 
Here's the "bomb" in question:

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Still reckon that would take a lot of disguising to look much like a bomb - and I still wonder how he thought it had got there, after all bombs know their place and just don't dig their way up out of the ground of their own free will. Moles perhaps but not bombs
Maybe who ever threw it over thought the same, it was a bomb, and decided to get rid of it.
 
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