‘Pop’ Bottles Bring Back Flavor of War
Associated Press
PAGHAM, England —
Builder Peter Tayman, 44, thought the bottles he unearthed while digging near his home Friday contained nothing more dangerous than old orange soda pop. But after leaving them lying in the sun for an hour, the bottles began sparking and smoking and threatened to go off with more than just a pop.
Army bomb disposal experts were called to Tayman’s house in Pagham, on the south coast of England, and discovered that the bottles were World War I phosphorus grenades.
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