Posted on 03/18/2024 11:22:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
March 18 (UPI) -- Army personnel were called to a Quebec home when the deceased owner's daughter made a surprising discovery in a toolbox: a live grenade.
Kedrin Simms Brachman said she and some family members were cleaning out the Knowlton home formerly occupied by her father, Frank Simms, who died in October.
"We went into his tool room, which was always, like, nobody ever went into his tool room. That was a sacred place," she told CTV News. "I was looking for something, and then I opened up the toolbox, and there was a grenade."
Simms Brachman said she remembered the grenade from decades earlier, but had thought it was long gone.
"I remember this grenade from almost 30 years ago when Dad brought it back from my grandfather's house," she wrote on social media. "We all asked him to get rid of it and thought he had...well, he didn't and it was loose and had moved houses multiple times with him."
Simms Brachman contacted police, and an officer who arrived to take photos of the object said Canadian Armed Forces would need to be summoned to the house.
She said army personnel told her the grenade was live -- a rare occurrence for antique grenades.
"It had a detonator and everything in it. It was intact, so they secured it. They loaded it in their truck, and off we went," Simms Brachman said.
She said the incident has added to the legend of her father, who was well known to his friends and family as a unique character.
"When everything was all clear, I went back around and told the neighbors. They were all now laughing and they were like, 'Well, Frank wants to make sure we're on our toes.' That's it in a nutshell. Frank wanted to make sure we remembered him," she said.
And I believe this was in Canada.
‘Quebec’ was a good clue..............
“...like, nobody ever went into his tool room.”
Now she knows why.
Good defense in case you’re walking downtown and are attacked by a gang....
Prime Minister Justin Castro will find a way to arrest her
I wouldn’t publicize such a find. It mind come in handy some day. I’d secure it a safe location and be prepared to use it should it become necessary. LOL!
Next question: Will the Trudeau anti-gun dictatorship send the police to arrest her for having a dangerous explosive device in her home? I won’t put it past them.
I wonder how many times that thing got dropped on the garage floor while Dad was looking for “those damned wire cutters!”
As the WWII and Korean War generation dies off, I bet there are more stories like this one..........
What’s the old Army saying regarding hand grenades....
“When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend”
In the late ‘70s, I was assigned to a Marine logistics unit in Okinawa. I did my usual “nest building” in my new office and when I pulled my top drawer in my desk open, I was startled to see a Vietcong stick grenade roll towards me.
The guy I was replacing in that job laughed and said that “it’s inert, don’t worry about it”. I ignored the darn thing for my first month, but once I was fully into my job, I decided to ease the cork in the grenade’s handle and have a look.
The cork was still attached to its string and that puppy was LIVE!
Explosive Ordnance Disposal showed up and we took that thing to the grenade range - and it worked just fine.
Knowlton, Quebec is about 75 miles SE of Montreal in an area known locally as the Eastern Townships. That area of Quebec is immediately north of Vermont.
Doesn’t everyone have a live grenade, just in case?
I lost mine in a boating accident.
Me: Doesn’t everyone have a live grenade, just in case?
You: I lost mine in a boating accident.
Me: Were you fishing with it? (That is, stunning the fish with an explosive and picking them up when they float to the surface?)
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