I've seen a few of these around here. Well, maybe not a Parrott shell, but dangerous old Civil War stuff.

A collector of Civil War relics has been hospitalized after being injured while trying to defuse an old artillery shell at his home.

Lawrence Christopher was trying to remove gunpowder from a Civil War-era Parrott shell at an outbuilding at his home Monday when it exploded, authorities said. ...

After the explosion, an ordnance team from Fort Benning destroyed dozens of other shells found at Christopher's home after determining they were unsafe. They were destroyed Tuesday at a sheriff's training center.

I'm not a collector, but part of me thinks it was wrong for the sheriff to destroy those shells without Christopher's permission. They were apparently safe enough to move. If anything, I would have preferred the sheriff to confiscate them under some weapons regulation, and given them back after Christopher paid to have them deactivated.

Then again, I'm still dodging anvils.