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| The gun that the boy found |
A boy, who was looking for interesting worms, dug up a loaded handgun, according to police reports in Arizona.
Prescott Police said that a 9-year-old boy digging for worms in northern Arizona found the gun buried near his home.
The 38-gauge stainless steel revolver was inside plastic bag along with bullets, just under the surface of the ground.
Police said it appears that the gun was covered only to hide it until someone came to get it.
Police also said that they do not know who owns the gun or how it ended up buried near the house of the boy, who found it on Monday. Police did not identify the boy.
Authorities said that the serial number of the gun has been checked and the gun has not been reported as missing.
This is not the first time a boy got into trouble while searching for creepy stuff. As we reported earlier, a little boy thought he was just collecting innocent looking eggs he found while playing outside, but they turned out to be extremely dangerous, according to press reports.
An Australian boy, who is 3-years-old, was lucky to escape unharmed after his egg collection turned into a tangle of deadly slithering snakes.
Reptile specialist Trish Prendergast said Friday that young wildlife enthusiast Kyle Cummings, could have died if he had handled one of the eastern brown snakes, the world's most poisonous species on earth after the Australian Taipan.
Kyle found nine eggs on the grass on the 3 acres of family property on the outskirts of the city of Townsville in Queensland state, Prendergast said. He had no idea what kind of eggs they were.
He put the eggs in a plastic food container and hid them in his bedroom closet, where her mother, Donna Sim, found them on Monday. Seven eggs had already hatched, but the snakes were trapped under the lid of the container. The other two eggs were infertile and probably were rotten, Prendergast said.
"I was pretty surprised, especially since I do not like snakes," Sim told the local newspaper. Prendergast, received the container on Tuesday and released the snakes into the wild that night. She was relieved that no one had touched the snakes.
"Their fangs are only a few millimeters long at that age, so it probably could not break skin, but are just as poisonous as snakes that are fully developed," Prendergast said.
"If it had touched Kyle, where he had a cut or put it in his mouth, it could have been fatal," Prendergast added.