This is not cool or funny, an unexploded bomb in her home, used as a flower vase ::: A woman was shocked to discover a wartime shell she had used as a vase for 30 years was still live. Kathryn Rawlins, 45, had found the shell buried in the playing fields at her school when she was 15. Assuming that it is safe, and thinking it would make a nice vase, she had kept it filled with her favorite flowers for more than three decades until she saw a TV documentary and realized she may have actually been sitting feet from an unexploded bomb. After calling the police, MoD experts were brought in to take away the vase and safely remove the explosive - before returning the casing to her. Warks, said: “The police said the shell had the potential to have killed anybody within about 20 metres of it and could have taken the house down.
