They say lightning never strikes the same place twice, but cannonballs, well that seems to be another story. Auctioneer Rob Weiman of Mound City Auctions has now found 8 cannonballs in residential homes in the St. Louis area. He was setting up a regular estate auction in Chesterfield, MO. (a suburb of St. Louis, MO.) when his wife (Tina) found a live cannonball in a box. She called over to Rob and said “Rob, come take a look at what I just found.” Rob informed the seller that this was a live cannonball and the owner said “no that thing is just fine, I dug that up when I was a kid. I used to play with that and roll it down the driveway.” Rob let him know that he may well have played with it but that didn’t make it any less real. He told him “these thing are perfectly safe, right up until the time that they are not.” If you look closely at the cannonball you will see that it has a plug in it. this is to contain the the explosive charge that is used to make it explode. The auctioneer took the cannonball outside and called the police after telling the owner, “I have to call the police, you can’t sell these, and you can’t throw them away, they are quite dangerous.” The policeman called the supervisor in and the Sgt. called the bomb squad. The bomb squad, called in the bomb disposal truck.