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Florida Man Fishes Out WW2 Hand Grenade, Goes to Taco Bell
nbcmiami.com ^ | 01/28/2019

Posted on 01/29/2019 5:34:22 AM PST by BenLurkin

The Ocala Police Department said a man who was magnet fishing found a Second World War-era hand grenade and then went to Taco Bell.

The central Florida Taco Bell on East Silver Springs Blvd. was evacuated on Saturday after the man told police dispatchers he found the grenade and that it was inside the trunk of his vehicle parked at the fast-food restaurant.

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TOPICS: Food; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fisherman; florida; floridaman; floriduh; handgrenade; magnetfishing; tacobell
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To: NFHale

You make a valid point. I still have to learn my limits on coffee. I’m ok til a certain point, then i have to have the just one more. Hah.


41 posted on 01/29/2019 7:26:51 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Delta 21

“Grenades can be very handy. Why’d he tell the cops?”

They can be useful (and probably will be, and quite soon), if you’re sure they still work properly.

I don’t know much about grenades, although very old ones likely have a lot in common with Takata Air Bags, in that they both won’t necessarily detonate according to spec.

In this case, if you pull the pin to throw it, will you still get the several second delay upon release...or not?

As to telling the cops, obviously he wanted it disposed of safely, or he’d risk living with whatever happened.


42 posted on 01/29/2019 8:02:29 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: BenLurkin

I feel a song coming on!

I think I will call it...

“Taco Bell’s Cannon” !


43 posted on 01/29/2019 8:04:21 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: left that other site

Oh my.


44 posted on 01/29/2019 8:17:19 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

:-)


45 posted on 01/29/2019 8:24:23 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

LOL.

I know whenever I find a grenade, my next stop is always Taco Bell.

Sarcasm....


46 posted on 01/29/2019 8:40:03 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: moovova

You’re good!


47 posted on 01/29/2019 8:52:57 AM PST by Keyga8tor
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To: Moonman62

Is magnet fishing something I should know about?
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I think they mean MAGGOT fishing. Doesn’t it say he went around back of the Taco Bell to the dumpster?
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BTW - > MAGA


48 posted on 01/29/2019 9:17:11 AM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: Honest Nigerian

Here’s more info from another article. I still have no idea why they went to Taco Bell:

On Jan. 26 at 5:01 p.m. local time, police dispatchers in Ocala, Florida, received a call from a woman who reported that she and her boyfriend had found a grenade while fishing in the nearby Ocklawaha River.

But her story didn’t end there. After examining the grenade, the woman’s boyfriend placed it in the trunk of her car, and the pair drove to the Ocala Taco Bell, where they notified the police, Ocala Police Department (OPD) representatives posted on Facebook.

The couple — Lorena Upton and Charles Carter — were magnet fishing in the river, searching for valuable metal scraps that they could salvage and sell, Officer Jameson Boucher recorded in a case narrative. When Carter fished up the grenade, he put it in a bucket along with the other bits of scrap metal, stowed the bucket in Upton’s trunk, and then drove with Upton to a Taco Bell to make the phone call to the police, Boucher said.


49 posted on 01/29/2019 9:23:14 AM PST by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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To: Moonman62

I have never heard of “magnet fishing”. I suppose you could do it out of curiosity just to see what you might find, but using just a magnet will only bring up iron or steel and miss more valuable copper or aluminum, Does not make much sense money wise.


50 posted on 01/29/2019 9:32:03 AM PST by nomorelurker
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To: KittyKares

Well, they do say the fish have a lot of mercury in them nowadays.


51 posted on 01/29/2019 10:50:21 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Bulwyf

I bet either the spring was corroded away or the primer was long since wet. That thing was probably no real threat, even if the TNT was still good.


52 posted on 01/29/2019 10:54:28 AM PST by GingisK
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To: NFHale
Back in my "fat days", I used to eat Taco Bell tacos by the six-pack.

Those were most unhealthy days. I'm better now.

53 posted on 01/29/2019 10:56:28 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Yikes!!!!

Like I said - Gastronintestinal Hiroshima for me.

If I eat that stuff... Not only can I clear a room with a couple of good, healthy methane blasts and cause folks to don MOPP Level IV gear in a panic, but the EPA shows up as well...


54 posted on 01/29/2019 1:41:20 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: GingisK

Oh ya, that would likely be the case. It’s still not something I’d want to lug around.


55 posted on 01/29/2019 2:13:03 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: NFHale

I want to be able to buy them via the second amendment. They would be fun.


56 posted on 01/29/2019 3:09:51 PM PST by wgmalabama (Mittens is the new Juan. Go away mittens!)
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To: Bulwyf

By all means, new ones are better.


57 posted on 01/29/2019 3:40:51 PM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK

The new ones work well, though the first time I gave one a toss I was a very underwhelmed. I blame too many movies. Some noise, a puff of black smoke, and I was left wondering where the real grenades were heh.


58 posted on 01/29/2019 3:50:03 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Moonman62

I lived on a lake growing up. Dad had a couple good strong bar magnets on ropes, for getting up stuff we dropped or whatever. I never called it magnet fishing, but did it, never found much — many bottle caps, cans, a couple tools.


59 posted on 01/29/2019 4:03:30 PM PST by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: Bulwyf

Hollywood has never managed to get explosives right.


60 posted on 01/29/2019 4:35:37 PM PST by GingisK
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