Just in the news today, a live rocket round in a museums collection. Someone is in trouble!!

Cumberland, Maryland – History could have come to life in very much the wrong way at a veterans’ museum where a rocket on display for two years was discovered to be live.

After Allegany County authorities were notified Wednesday that the Mark 1 rocket on display in Cumberland might be live, the state fire marshal’s office and the FBI confirmed it was. Bomb experts removed the ordnance and rendered it safe.

The 122-centimetre-by-7-centimetre rocket was similar to those used on helicopter gun ships during the Vietnam War, said Deputy State Fire Marshal Joseph Zurolo Jr. A local veteran donated it to the museum, which is in a chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Zurolo said.

Authorities are investigating how the man came to possess the live ordnance. – Sapa-AP