WWII bomb woman was selling on eBay turns out to be live
A WOMAN who tried to sell a World War Two bomb for 99p was shell-shocked when a buyer warned her it was live.
Terrified Tracie Wright rang cops when the eBay collector said the German shell could go off any time.
A bomb disposal team was sent to her home and destroyed it in a controlled explosion.
And Tracie, 49 — who had planned to let one of her three kids take it to school for “show and tell” — said the size of the blast proved it was live.
She said in Spalding, Lincs: “I often buy things from markets to sell online, but a collector told me this bomb looked real.
“The bomb squad told me that, if it was dead, the explosion would just be a small ‘poof’.
An eBay collector said the German shell that Tracie's kids had been throwing around could go off any time
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“But they exploded it and it definitely went ‘bang’. I thought, ‘Oh God’, because my kids had been throwing the thing around.”
A bomb expert said: “Explosives do not improve with age.
"If anybody finds something they’re unsure about, do not touch it, do not move it and call the police.”