Posted on 03/21/2009 1:31:10 PM PDT by Kolb
Saturday morning a live WWII era hand grenade was found amid piles of debris in the backyard of a central Austin, Texas residence. Area neighbors found the grenade while removing the remnants of a collapsed garage as part of a community outreach/ assistance program for elderly property owners. Local authorities were notified, the area blocked off by police, some nearby residents evacuated and the Austin Police Department bomb squad brought in to identify, contain and dispose of the munition. The grenade was safely detonated by the APD bomb squad in a nearby empty lot at 50th Street and Harmon Avenue around 2:15 p.m.
ping...
Some feller probably brought it back from the war.
wow... Thank God you didn’t get hurt!
That sounds like a real keepsake though!
Yesterday it was Giant Texas Rattlesnakes and today we are still fighting WWII down there?
Holy Hand grenade of Antioch Ping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk
Wow, glad you’re ok! 2 of my sons live in Austin, wonder if this is near them.
3 shalt be the number thouu shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be 3.
The APD bomb squad???
Just pull the pin and throw it! Jeeze, tax dollars at work.
Yep, we think this is exactly what happened- same resident in the home since 1937 (she is now 93) and her husband may have been a WWII vet.
Holy moly. At her age, her hubby coulda been a WWI vet!
Thanks, we were all very lucky. With the tangle of junk that was piled on top of and around the grenade we could have set it off accidentally.
Wow,Be careful that there are not more of them.
Four is right out...YEah. Monte Python did some great stuff. But I sure would have been tempted to keep the thing. How many people have 70 yr old hand grenades as keepsakes?
“Five is right out”
Good thing it wasn’t a ‘Bouncing Betty’.
sounds like a vet brought home a souvenir
We're probably happier not knowing the answer to that...
there’s so much unexploded WWI stuff lying around in France and Belgium that they still have full time EOD teams working on it.
“Just pull the pin and throw it! Jeeze, tax dollars at work.”
I wonder how old it is and if the cap has deteriorated?
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