Posted on 01/22/2024 12:15:00 PM PST by Red Badger
Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A contractor working on a remodeling job in Washington was removing a bathtub from the home when he made a surprising discovery inside the wall: a grenade.
Vadim Kharkhavyy, owner of Polar Bear Construction, said he tore out the tub in the third-floor bathroom of the home in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, revealing a hidden compartment in the wall and an object that appeared to be a grenade.
"My first thought was to get out of there," Kharkavyy told KIRO-TV.
Kharkavyy returned to the bathroom and captured video of the grenade, which he posted to his company's TikTok page.
"I rushed out of there, took a breath, and actually went back in and recorded the situation," he said. "I zoomed in on my phone and took a closer peek, I'm like that's an actual freaking grenade."
The Seattle Police Department's bomb squad responded to the home and confirmed the object was a grenade, but it was inert.
"They mentioned something about [World War II] and how veterans came home and they brought weapons and stuff with them and somebody stored it there and possibly forgot about it," Kharkavyy said.
Am I the only one that would kinda like finding a grenade laying there for the taking and not run away like other, smarter people do?
A paper weight. Idiots.
I’m putting that back for safe keeping the revolution whatever.
I’m going with his first decision to clear out, and not so much with going back to make a Tik Tok video
Was doing a big renovation in my dad’s bathroom 3 years ago, and found a 1932 New York license plate dumped behind the lath and plaster wall. Was decades before he had bought the house, but 20 years after the house was built.
Can’t imagine how it got in there (and an out-of state plate as well)
We too are leaving little surprises for our grandchildren. We haven’t thought of grenades though. We were thinking more in the line of mason jars full of change. LOL!
A grenade with the pin still inserted is totally safe................
“A paper weight. Idiots.”
I saw that. They were big things for teens to have years ago. My boys had one and even took it to school to prank their classmates. Of course, no one freaked out back then in our rural county. After a teacher double-checking to make sure it was inert, my youngest son was told to keep it in his backpack and quit scaring the girls.
Stolen or used in a bank robbery?....................
The blue color screams “inert.”
I would love to find a grenade! Inert or NOT!..................
Get one of those full size Halloween skeletons and put it in your crawl space!!!! 💀
I like the way you think, lol!
Nope
Back in the ‘70s I bought one that looked exactly like the one in the photo at a military surplus store in Florida. I never bothered to research it, but I always assumed that the blue-painted spoon indicated the grenade was inert. Anyone know if that’s the case?
Yes
Yes, IIRC......................
Bingo.
https://armysurpluswarehouse.com/dummy-inert-grenade-please-read-description-for-shipping-restrictions/
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