15 Minutes of Fame

Hope that yours aren't achieved like this.

A Norfolk man spent four hours holding a rusty piece of metal he feared was an unexploded World War Two bomb that would detonate if he let go. [...] As police, fire and ambulance crews rushed to the workyard where David Page had dug up the device, the terrified 40-year-old spoke to an emergency operator on his mobile phone, newspapers said on Wednesday.

"The woman police operator kept saying it would be OK but I kept saying to her, 'You're not the one holding the bomb'," he said in the Daily Mail. Page, a father of five, sobbed to the woman operator: "I told her to tell my parents and the children that I loved them if anything went wrong."

The drama ended when army bomb disposal experts turned up and told him the "bomb" was actually part of the hydraulic suspension system from a Citroën.

Oh. Uhhh, sorry 'bout that. Something tells me it's going to be a long time before his drinking buddies let him live this one down.