Posted on 04/20/2020 4:00:36 AM PDT by Bruiser 10
OTIS, Ore. – A woman in Otis, Oregon came across an interesting find while going through boxes in her late father's garage - a World War II-era hand grenade.
She called the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office to report what she found, and deputies confirmed it was a real grenade.
The Oregon State Police bomb squad was called to secure the device. They're looking into whether it's still live.
(Looks like they're inert)
Easy - just pull the pin and see what it does .. /w
Could be real.
Easy check is to simply turn it over and see if there is a hole in the bottom and the interior is empty of explosives.
Next is to just unscrew the cap portion (part with the spoon) of the grenande off and see if there is a cap on it and the interior has explosives in it.
Everyone should throw at least two hand grenades in a lifetime.
And five is right out
I’ll take a case of those, just leave them at the end of the drive way.
Inert WWII-era pineapple grenades used to be a dime a dozen at Army Surplus stores.
They used to mount inert grenades on little pieces of varnished wood and sell them as joke gifts for the office (Complaint Dept. - Please Take a Number). Seems like every year or so, there’s a story about some clueless person “finding a grenade”.
Yup, the 1/2” hole in the bottom is a great clue that it is inert.
Exactly.
We had a class on explosives recognition where the instructor brought two Claymore mines in. He had removed the C4 for show and tell.
He mentioned a family had moved their father’s old WWII foot locker after he passed on. They dropped it and three WWII Japanese hand grenades rolled down the steps.
Last I heard he still had them. As the designated fire marshal he had the necessary permission to keep stuff like that in his custody.
When I was a kid, a neighbor kid came to Trick or Treat on Hallowe’en dressed as a soldier, complete with a rifle and inerted grenades. A real GI Joe.
It snowed November 1 that year, and snow was on the ground until the middle of March.
In March, I am walking through the front yard, and there is a grenade sitting on the ground. We had forgotten all about Hallowe’en by then. It gave us a real good scare.
By way of background, idiots with explosives were not exactly unknown in our neighborhood. It was considered poor form to call the cops on your neighborhood miscreants. So we poked it with a stick until we turned it over and could see that it was drilled out. They we remembered Hallowe’en, and we all had a good laugh.
Yeah... We were idiots...
If they weight the same as live weights, take them out to the range and have some fun. Otherwise, give them back.
Once you remove the pin, Mr. Hand Grenade is no longer your friend.
Put the ring in your teeth, pull, and throw.
Easy.
Just like in the movies.
The one I got from army-navy was painted blue, inert.
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