Posted on 11/19/2011 2:47:07 PM PST by Morgana
FRANKLIN, Ind. -- A central Indiana woman hoping to donate a grenade stored in her family's attic to the new Indiana National Guard Armory got a surprise when a bomb squad found that the device wasn't a dud.
Sheila Hood asked a soldier at Monday's armory dedication in Franklin if someone could inspect the grenade so she could donate it as an artifact.
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Darren Minnemann advised her to first have a police bomb squad check it out.
The Daily Journal reported that the grenade still had the fuse that would cause it to explode and that its pin was only halfway in the grenade.
The device was removed and will be detonated at Camp Atterbury.
Police said the grenade might date from the Korean War or World War II.
Just in time for rabbit season, too.
Yes, but yours had not been sitting in someone's attic for half a century. It might have been so corroded as to make the fuse very difficult to remove. Plus the stability of the fuse would be in question after that long.
Old ammo is one thing, old grenades, with the pin half out, are something quite different. Still the police needed to have their fun too, blowing the thing up.
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