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| (5/16/06 - DALLAS, TX) - A military team destroyed a World War II-era land mine found in a suburban backyard after an anonymous phone call alerted authorities to the device, police said. The home's residents, Feliciano and Lucy Guzman, were unaware that the device was a land mine, said their son, Jesse Guzman. He said a family friend found the device on a trip to Arizona and brought it back as a souvenir, giving it to the Guzmans as a gift. "I never thought it was a land mine," Jesse Guzman said. "It looks like a mousetrap." Guzman, 43, said his mother was away and not yet aware of what happened. "She's gone to New Mexico -- ain't no telling what she'll bring back," he said. |