I’m confused by the sawing in half...
I guess I’m too old - Can’t you just unscrew and remove the triggering mechanism?
I have no idea.
That is the usual approach.
We used to unscrew the fuse, pull the pin and toss. Neat firecracker and now an inert grenade.
Grunts were always coming back giving us M26 grenades with the pin pulled and electrical tape holding the spoon down. Pin could have corroded I suppose
The newer baseball shaped grenade (M33) fuse did not unscrew easily so we just collected them.
Rumor had it they were anti-tamper.
Maybe... but then sawing the steel body in half creates a shower of sparks and heat and pressure. And it’s filled with composition B explosives.
It was a very stupid idea someone had. The grenades should have gone into the normal disposal at the range where things are safely destroyed. They could have obtained an inert cut away grenade from the manufacturer.
This whole episode makes me think of a documentary I saw on the Vietnam war. It showed two VC taking a hacksaw to an unexploded bomb so they could dig out the explosive material for a booby trap.
Damn those guys were brave.