Posted on 11/19/2011 2:47:07 PM PST by Morgana
FRANKLIN, Ind. -- A central Indiana woman hoping to donate a grenade stored in her family's attic to the new Indiana National Guard Armory got a surprise when a bomb squad found that the device wasn't a dud.
Sheila Hood asked a soldier at Monday's armory dedication in Franklin if someone could inspect the grenade so she could donate it as an artifact.
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Darren Minnemann advised her to first have a police bomb squad check it out.
The Daily Journal reported that the grenade still had the fuse that would cause it to explode and that its pin was only halfway in the grenade.
The device was removed and will be detonated at Camp Atterbury.
Police said the grenade might date from the Korean War or World War II.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
well, that turned out better than it could have
I got one of those. But of course the bottom is cut out and drained of powder and the fuse has been taken out.
Wonder how many officers showed up for the festivities? Probably at least a dozen... (donut joke)
Let's see: 10 officers @ $25 an hour for 4 hours.
That grenade prolly cost the taxpayers at least a grand, maybe two.
Once his pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend.
Don't kid yourself. This is a mess.< /s>
Until I was about 12 years old my aunt & uncle kept two artillery shells their dad’s brother had brought back from WWI. As I grew up I remember these being parked on an end table at their farm. These had been kept around their farm in one place or another from about 1919 until 1964 or so until they discovered they were both live shells...!
GALAHAD: Let us taunt it! It may become so cross that it will make a mistake.
ARTHUR: Like what?
GALAHAD: Well,....
LAUNCELOT: Have we got bows?
ARTHUR: No
LAUNCELOT: We have the Holy Hand Grenade.
ARTHUR: Yes, of course! The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch! ‘Tis one of the sacred relics Brother Maynard carries with him! Brother Maynard! Bring up the Holy Hand Grenade! [singing] How does it, uh... how does it work
LAUNCELOT: I know not my liege.
ARTHUR: Consult the book of armaments.
MAYNARD: Armaments, Chapter Two, Verses Nine to Twenty-One.
BROTHER: “And Saint Atila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, ‘Oh, Lord, bless this thy hand grenade that with it thou mayest blow thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.’ And the Lord did grin, and people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large —”
MAYNARD: Skip a bit, Brother.
BROTHER: “And the Lord spake, saying, ‘First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.’”
MAYNARD: Amen.
ALL: Amen.
ARTHUR: Right! One... two... five!
GALAHAD: Three sir.
ARTHUR: Three!
[boom]
Always remember five is right out :)
LOLZ!!! I love that scene!
Mt uncle brought back all kinds of shells from WWII. Some were 40mm, a couple of mortar rounds, and rifle rounds. We used to play with them in the attic skylight room when we were kids. One day we took a smaller rifle round and threw it against a tree where it exploded, sending shrapnel everywhere. Needless to say, my aunt dumped them all in the river the same day.
They are very easy to disarm. Unscrew the fuse, pull the pin and let the fuse burn out and screw it back in. Perfectly safe. We used to do it all the time in Vietnam to screw with the newbies
There is no problem that cannot be solved by the proper quantity and application of high explosives.
One of my old bosses (an Army sniper in VN) said that troops used to unscrew grenades and use the explosive to heat their rations in the field.
It was a Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!
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