WoW...my physics teacher heard I had a demill'd pinapple grenade and asked me to bring it in to physics class...no one was evacuated...half the school got to see it too...
The 11-year-old boy told Pittsburgh Public Schools Police that his grandfather gave him the 15-inch shell, which he called a "big bullet."
Nobody was hurt when Arlington Elementary School was evacuated about 1:45 p.m. Tuesday, and the shell was disposed of. It wasn't immediately clear if the shell was live, police said.
The boy took the shell to school in his book bag without telling his parents, police said.
The boy could be suspended for up to 10 days, officials said.
Sounds like a Hotchkiss to me, prolly defuzed, but who knows for sure. Some of the projectiles used Gold Fulminate, which never goes bad.
A wing of the Connecticut capitol houses the "Hall of Flags," a display of military colors, mostly from the Civil War. A few years back, they also had on display a length of tree-trunk from Antietam that was absolutely riddled with solid shot and shell -- it was taken from near where Gen. Mansfield fell, IIRC. Anyway, at some point, the tree began to "sweat" in a particular spot, almost as though it was running sap. Further investigation revealed that the liquid was coming from a shell stuck deep in the trunk. EOD was called, the capitol evacuated, and they very, very gingerly eased it out of the building and up to the (Hartford) North Meadows in the state police bomb wagon; ka-boom! No more tree trunk.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)