2005 Vette
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Yesterday we were cleaning out my father in laws home as he's moving into an assisted living apartment. He's a WWII vet and hasn't thrown away anything in 65 years. So we found this barrel of stuff that was a virtual treasure trove of WWII collectables. There was bayonets and a Japanese knife, money and coins. We got towards the bottom and we found two live type 97 Japanese grenades. There were probably 15 of us in his basement in somewhat disbelief what we found. After researching the type 97 they were unreliable when new but we had no idea how unstable they were 60 years later. We called the local authorities and they called the bomb squad out to dispose of the grenade. It sure livened our day up.