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Farmer finds unexploded shell

It was the last thing Robert Parr expected to find sticking out of the ground of his farm near Rapid City.

And the farmer said he didn’t realize he’d found an unexploded, potentially dangerous, artillery shell until he held it in his hands.

“It looked like an old coffee thermos, so I picked the stupid thing up,” Parr said yesterday. “As I picked it up, I noticed it was a little more than a coffee thermos.”

Parr found the shell on his farm about five kilometres south of Rapid City near Highway 270.

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