Pull the pin, throw it as hard as you can and run like h3ll in the opposite direction.
I wonder what the desk officer thought he set that on the counter before he started to talk.
That picture would have been priceless.
Dang. Somebody had a fun day.
I would have loved to have been a fly on that wall:
"How about the crack house on 12th street...."
LOL... Sheriff Boyer was at our Silverdale Chamber of Commerce lunch last week... will have to rib him about this at next month’s luncheon.
Sgt.: Run for it.
Jones: You could stand and scream for help.
Sgt.: Yeah, you try that with a pineapple down your windpipe.
Jones: A pineapple?
Sgt.: Where? Where?
Jones: No I just said: a pineapple.
Sgt.: Oh. Phew. I thought my number was on that one
The PARKING LOT was blocked off??!!!.
What a bunch of over reactionary wusses we’ve all become.
good grief.
Reminds me of what happened a couple of years ago in East Pointe MI. A guy found a pipe bomb and drove it to the police station. After the evacuation of the police station, it was taken away and the police made a statement.
If you find suspicious package, do not move it, We Will Come There!!!
A bit surprised that they did not throw him into jail! Seems to be the default today - when in doubt, don’t think, just do what is required by your bosses or if that fails, go pc...
Kind of surprised that they took him at his word and did not suspect him of nefarious activity.
Jeezuz! Instead of throwing Chinese fire drill they could have just unscrewed the damn fuze!
Those things were not designed to be tricky.
Why didn't they just pull the pin and throw it while at the range, why waste other explosives on it? What a panic over a grenade that has been lying around harmlessly since the war. Bunch of wussies. I would have taken the damn thing out into the woods and thrown it without telling the cops about it. Telling the cops leaves you wide open to some stupid charge you never heard of.
Good thing this didn’t happen in England or that guy would be in jail.
And that’s not a joke.
There were a bunch of threads a couple months back about how a guy found a gun that had been dumped in his yard or something, and, being a good citizen, took it to the police — who immediately threw him in jail.
IIRC, he was actually convicted because the British law says that mere possession of the gun, regardless of reason, demands conviction and punishment.
Odds are it was inert but the story doesn’t address it one way or the other.
I’ve got some inert ones around the house just for conversation pieces. You can pick them up at Army-Navy surplus stores, gun shows, etc.