Imagine that you decide to go around with a metal detector and find yourself with an old unexploded bomb. What would you do: Would you leave the artifact quiet and call the appropriate authorities to evaluate your finding, or would you happily take the device home to display it as a trophy to your friends?

For, according to John Kuroski, from All That Is Interesting, a guy from Duplek, Slovenia, found an unexploded WWII bomb, decided to take his find home, and as a result his entire neighborhood had to be evacuated. - and we're talking about 400 people who had to rush out of their homes! Well, now you know the right answer to the question we asked there at the beginning of the story, right?

Dangerous finding

According to John, the discovery came last week when the man - whose identity was not revealed - was with his children playing a "treasure hunt" near Vurberk Castle with a metal detector. The object is a US-origin bomb weighing 250 pounds, and instead of alerting the authorities, the guy dug up the artifact, loaded it into his truck and drove it home.

Bombinha found by the guy in Slovenia

The man, probably not knowing what to do with his find, decided to contact the authorities the next day - and that's when the commotion began. According to experts, considering the type of bomb he found and handled incredibly poorly, he was very, very lucky that the artifact didn't detonate and cause everyone to fly through the air.

That's because, as the authorities explained, the bomb - which is about 75 years old and still super-dangerous - was removed from the place where it fell decades ago (and for some reason did not explode). As if little, she was carried with little care in the back of a truck, where she must have rattled until the man came home.

This unexploded bomb above was discovered in a backyard of Bermondsey, a district of London, in 2015 (Sgt Rupert Frere RLC / Crown Copyright)

This improper handling may have triggered changes in the artifact structure that, in turn, could cause chemical ignition mechanisms to come into play and lead to detonation. Because of this, the authorities ordered the man and his family to leave the residence - just like everyone living within 300 meters of this guy's house.

But things get worse ... A team will be sending later this week to try to deactivate the artifact, and while the pros are risking their lives with the device, the evacuation will be extended to a radius of one kilometer from the site. And what will happen to the man? The authorities have not decided yet, but because he had moved where he should not have alerted the police and taken a bomb to a populated area, the guy could face five years in prison.

More common than it looks

Although the case sounds absurd, curiously, according to John, this sort of thing is more common than it sounds! This year alone, Polish authorities had to evacuate 10, 000 people after a 450-pound unexploded Nazi bomb was discovered in the town of Bialystock, and in Thessaloniki, Greece, 72, 000 had to leave their homes for specialists to remove. an artifact of 220 kilos found in the locality.

Non-detonated bomb found in Magdeburg, Germany in 2013 (EPA / JENS WOLF)

Worse, considering that of the 2.7 million tons of bombs that the Allied Forces dropped in Europe during World War II alone, about 10 percent did not detonate, the likelihood that these evacuations will continue to occur is quite high. By the way, thankfully none of these artifacts all exploded accidentally!