Posted on 05/05/2005 6:08:23 AM PDT by Calpernia
I'm guessing here, but here's what I think we are looking at:
1) Many surplus stores sell novelty grenades - real grenades, made of steel, that are hollow and have a big hole in the base.
2) They generally come in two varieties, commonly called 'pineapple' grenades and 'lemon' grenades. The pineapples have external grooves cut in them to aid fragmentation, the lemons are smooth. They are both about the same size.
3) I'm guessing a pair of these things was filled with some sort of propellant - smokeless, black, the stuff inside of firecrackers, who knows - and made into an expedient pipe bomb.
4) Add one idiot reporter and stir.
Your #2, I didn't know that. Thank you.
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