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Man brings grenade to sheriff's office in Silverdale
kitsapsun.com ^ | 3 Mar 2011 | Kitsap Sun staff

Posted on 03/03/2011 8:46:14 PM PST by smokingfrog

SILVERDALE — A Central Kitsap man brought a grenade to the Silverdale precinct of the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office Tuesday afternoon, prompting a short closure while the device was removed.

The man told deputies he found the World War II-era ("pineapple style") grenade recently when sorting through the belongings of his recently deceased father. He brought it to the sheriff's office to have it properly disposed of.

At about 2 p.m., the office was cleared out and parking lot blocked off so sheriff's deputies could determine what to do with the device. A deputy and a Washington State Patrol trooper, both members of the county's bomb squad, took it to a firing range where it was "rendered safe" with an explosive charge.

Deputies gave the man some instructions for the future.

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To: sinanju

Lots of funny comments here, but you make a good point. If it was a live grenade, the explosive could have become unstable over time. I’m thinking the best thing would be to put the grenade in a large bucket of water and then call the police to pick it up.


41 posted on 03/04/2011 7:57:35 AM PST by smokingfrog ( BORN free - taxed to DEATH (and beyond) ...)
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To: 2001convSVT
Couldn't they just unscrew the pin/spoon assemble and separate it from the frag/charge, problem solved?

Yeah they could have done that, but then the EODs wouldn't have gotten their "training" and used up the old stock of C4. ;-)

Once while running the Huey Gunships, one of the 2.75" rockets jammed in the pod... the higher ups refused to let us pull the rocket and instead called the EODs...

...and they did exactly what we knew they would, which was to load the remaining tubes with about 10 lbs of C4 and blow about a 20 ft crater in the ground while vaporizing our rocket pod!

42 posted on 03/04/2011 12:22:31 PM PST by AvOrdVet ("Put the wagons in a circle for all the good it'll do")
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To: AvOrdVet

“Quite a few years ago (late eighties) a SEAL was tossing a grenade, the fuse had been changed out for instantaneous detonation”

Why would an instantaneous detonation fuse be made to fit a hand grenade?


43 posted on 03/04/2011 12:41:36 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase
Why would an instantaneous detonation fuse be made to fit a hand grenade?

For use as a booby-trap, removing the 4-5 sec delay, one of the "old ways" was to insert smoke grenade fuses which had an almost instantaneous firing train... set up a trip line, pull the pin, boom.

Haven't kept track of the newer devices as they have gotten smaller, so I don't know if they can have or even accept different types of fuses.

44 posted on 03/04/2011 2:06:45 PM PST by AvOrdVet ("Put the wagons in a circle for all the good it'll do")
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To: Rebelbase
Guess they still do have some "short fused" devices running around... and still causing problems... “We were training with Afgan privates using prototype smoke grenades. The intent of the grenade is to set-off a smoke screen for sniper fire. Some of the grenades have short fuses. Mine was a short fuse but it wasn’t marked.”
45 posted on 03/04/2011 2:35:42 PM PST by AvOrdVet ("Put the wagons in a circle for all the good it'll do")
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To: AvOrdVet

Yea, you are right, the kids wanted to use this excuse to have some fun.


46 posted on 03/04/2011 5:27:54 PM PST by 2001convSVT (That Beck guy was right about gold, too.)
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To: Deagle
Kind of surprised that they took him at his word and did not suspect him of nefarious activity.

I'm willing to bet that they 'escorted' him back and searched the home it came from before 'taking him at his word'. Not that that was a bad idea, though.

47 posted on 03/04/2011 9:05:33 PM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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