A puzzlement

[commodorified]

So, an unexploded shell of indeterminate age has been removed from a house in Toronto and taken to CFB Borden to be destroyed.

Noting that all has ended well and everybody is fine, so I can afford to be trivial:

A man who had just bought a home on the street discovered the shell in the house's garage

I think that the homeowner would be well within his rights to request that the fee for the customary pre-purchase home inspection be refunded in full. I mean, unless he waived inspection, which would be very unusual, or it's on page 12: "Garage — foundation good, roof in need of repair, unexploded ordnance behind workbench" and the purchaser just didn't read the whole thing.

Comments

[nineveh_uk]

"Not our problem, guv. We're there to inspect the property, not personal possessions."

[metawidget]

The inspector was too busy looking at the soffit vents, obviously.

[legionseagle]

A Sten gun has just been removed from the house of a deceased elderly lady of impeccable respectability. Plus, on the ferry on Sunday, the Dover/Calais line (we were travelling Newhaven/Dieppe) having been disrupted by what we assumed to be the condition known as The French on Strike Again turned out to be The Ferry Cannot Run Because Clearing WWII Mines From Calais.

So (as Hot Fuzz pointed out) You Never Can Tell.

[stardreamer]

My Inner Editor is screaming. Not just once but twice they refer to it as "ordinance".

[sara]

You will I think recall the story of the unexploded ordnance I discovered when I took over management of the museum?

They had catalogued it.

I let them keep the box, after the bomb squad had cleared it.

[castiron]

That is definitely more startling than the abandoned reptile nursery I discovered when clearing out some old carpet that the previous owners had stashed in the utilities room. (Fortunately just a hundredish empty eggshells and not any of their former inhabitants.)

[legionseagle]

Queen's St E.! For some bizarre reason, I rather thought it might have been in my old stamping ground just between Roncesvalles Ave. & High Park.