Police shell-shocked
PA Wellington The police say they are stunned by the actions of a woman who drove around a Wellington suburb yesterday with a 50cm cannon shell from a tank, looking for a way to get rid of it. Senior-Sergeant Michael Hubbard said the woman’s son, aged 10, and a friend were scrabbling beneath their aunt’s
Petone house when they came across the shell lying alongside a gas mask. “It seems they, stuck it in the back of the car, drove around Petone, and called into the museum, who told them to call us. “We took one look at it and said ‘bloody hell, we’re not touching this’ and called the Army,” Senior-Sergeant Hubbard said.
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