>Ridgewood woman finds artillery shell while cleaning basement
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
BY ERIK SHILLING
THE RECORD
STAFF WRITER
RIDGEWOOD – An 82-year-old woman found a decades-old unexploded ordinance in her home Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The ordnance, which police said had been rusted over, was a little more than a foot long and resembled a World War II-era artillery shell.
It was taken away without incident by two bomb technicians from the Bergen County Police Department, police said.
“We were cleaning out the cellar,” said the woman, Alice Smyser. “We came across this thing and didn’t know what it was.”
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