Posted on 12/07/2025 5:36:03 PM PST by Red Badger
During a routine home renovation, contractors in Ollala, Washington, were shocked to come across a small case containing a plethora of explosives.
Contractors renovating Washington state home discover case of live military grenades packed with TNT
Mystery surrounds discovery of military-style explosives at Washington state property as authorities investigate how live grenades ended up in home.
WWW.FOXNEWS.COM https://www.foxnews.com/us/contractors-renovating-washington-state-home-discover-case-live-military-grenades-packed-tnt
The homeowners, who had just purchased the home, were equally surprised by the discovery and called 911 to report the explosives.
The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office responded, and after inspecting the case, Sheriff's Deputies called in the bomb squad and the explosive ordnance team from a nearby Naval base.
In the case, they unpacked 10 live grenades, blasting caps, and other explosive devices.
The bomb squad took possession of the explosives, while a team from Bangor Naval Base seized the grenades, which are suspected to be military issue.
Kitsap County Sheriff's Office
The area was cleared, and the contractors were able to resume work on the property, but an investigation into the source of the explosives is ongoing.
I'm sure the construction workers will be extra careful during the remainder of the project, as this is definitely a case where "delicate demo" should apply.
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“...the grenades are suspected to be military issue...”
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Is there any other kind?
I used to have a cigarette table lighter that looked just like those grenades.............
Yeah, there are the ones made especailly for the civilian market!
Ten grenades… well, that’s something. But this guy has that beat. He actually had a Panther tank hidden in his basement.
https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-senior-wwii-nazi-tank-in-basement-fined-293000-2021-8?op=1
Those would have went in my bag.
Did everyone ask him how he was going to get it out of his basement like they did for Mark Harmon's character on NCIS?
Probably replied: "Don't ask."
Washington state.
If the other Washington, what if he and Brian Cole, Jr. had met and got to be pals.
“I’ve got some pineapples.”
“I don’t actually care for fruit.”
“Neither do I.”
Me either...................
Yeah, me too!.................
I see a baby food jar with what appears to be cotton in it. I wonder if it’s gun cotton, aka Nitrocellulose?................
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose
Well who hasn’t kept a tank with live ammo in their basement at one time or another?
I'm thinking it's PETN. That's what all those blocks of HDP-1 booster are made from.
Burns at 28,000 fps. That's what's in det cord. Great stuff for igniting explosives that aren't shock sensitive, like ANFO.
Might have had an application that didn't call for an entire block so they chipped off the excess with a screwdriver or some such and stored it in a jar to save it for another job.
Or for the 4th of July. I wouldn't use it alone for an anvil shoot but a small pinch in some black powder would get you another 50 feet or so.
Henry Ford built his first car in a rented garage with a door to narrow to get the car out through.
Some guy’s Bug-Out grab case.
Some guy’s Bug-Out grab case.
I had a buddy in the Marines was into that kinda stuff and one day he tried to make some ‘flash powder’. He was a heavy smoker and smoked Lucky Strikes non filtered and he had a saucer sized dish of the stuff in front of him and the ash fell off his cigarette into the dish. It flashed all at once in his face.
He got some really nasty burns and almost got court-martialed..................
My theory is it was a ex military EOD type that had pilfered the stuff when he was in the service............
Shouldn’t there be a yellow band on them?
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