627PCFan
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Walk up to me with a live grenade and no pin in it and see what happens.
grenade blows up back yard
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Ditch-Tiger
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Did anybody catch this reply in the comments section? This type of ignorance is sad...
" What is with these people? Who the hell keeps grenades in their garages? Then when the pin falls out, they continue to hold on to the thing and take it to someone else? What did they need a grenade for in the first place? Scare the census workers? Things like this make me cringe at the 2nd amendment. Some folks should not have weapons.. "
" What is with these people? Who the hell keeps grenades in their garages? Then when the pin falls out, they continue to hold on to the thing and take it to someone else? What did they need a grenade for in the first place? Scare the census workers? Things like this make me cringe at the 2nd amendment. Some folks should not have weapons.. "
USAFRetired
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Did he at least holler "WILLY PEET!" or "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" ?
paintballdude902
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especially if you live in a historic area. atleast once a year they call out the EOD team from the marine corps base to dispose of a civil war artifact. we had a few battles around here and there is a ton of unexploded ordnance in the ground. i know several people who have found cannon food. I myself found a big one in a back field with the use of a disk plow....
that was scary once i figured out what it was. they came out loaded it into a cone shaped trailer and moved it to a large section of field and set it off with C4. awesome sight but they made us stay atleast 1000yds away
Just found out there´s a WW2 bomb .. most likely between
250 and 1.000 pounds .. in front of the block i live in.
They built over it after war .. and now that ground
is being built on again. Once the remove the old
concrete base ... EOD will come.
i believe it was discovered on aerial photos
our nowadays american allies recently disclosed.
250 and 1.000 pounds .. in front of the block i live in.
They built over it after war .. and now that ground
is being built on again. Once the remove the old
concrete base ... EOD will come.
i believe it was discovered on aerial photos
our nowadays american allies recently disclosed.
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Yes, Yes, I so agree, We need only to Trust the EOD and GOV types to handle explosives? It's not any of us EX Military People could figure that complicated stuff out? Why Sure, the same folks that Lose Trunks full of MP-5's, Lap tops with all sorts of Personal information (NOT THIER OWN and MANT IMES CLASSIFIED), Yea, I sure trust them more than I do myself on all that pesky EXPLOSIVES stuff that after 24 years I never could Figure out? LOL Please! I think after handling all the ordinance most of us did, including Torpedo's Mine and the occasinal weapon we can't talk about, we are far better off Trusting our own Abilities than the Bully Boys who don't seem to understand who they work for any longer?
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Carl N. Brown
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He didn't even have to use his teeth to pull the pin.
LOL. I have a fired practice grenade (inert curio & ornament per ATF.org FAQ) with the typical spoon/safety pin setup, and pulling the pin with your teeth is pure Hollywood.
ADD: the burn damage to the fence sounds like what I would expect from a smoke grenade. From how my dad described white phosphorus grenades, the damage would have been much more than a two foot section of fence.
LOL. I have a fired practice grenade (inert curio & ornament per ATF.org FAQ) with the typical spoon/safety pin setup, and pulling the pin with your teeth is pure Hollywood.
ADD: the burn damage to the fence sounds like what I would expect from a smoke grenade. From how my dad described white phosphorus grenades, the damage would have been much more than a two foot section of fence.
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my cousin lives less than a mile from where this happened so i asked him
so he doesnt know much more than we do
so he doesnt know much more than we do
Pins can fall out, if the end has been straightened and re-bent a few times. A number of people died in Vietnam from their own grenades, because they'd set them out, straighten the pin so they'd be easier to pull if necessary, then re-bend them back the next morning. If a grenade went long enough without being thrown and was bent and re-bent enough times, metal fatigue would set in and the end would break off, and that could and did cause them to "just fall out" in the middle of the night, usually with lethal consequences for the guy what did the bending, and everyone near him.
Wouldn't surprise me if people did that during WWII, too.
Wouldn't surprise me if people did that during WWII, too.
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I use to have a grenade as a gear shift handle. It was milsurp de-activated. I had a friend ask me once, "How do you know it is not active?" I replied, "Because of the hole in the bottom." Just for good measure (stupid me) I pulled the pin. The release catch was under tension and sent the catch flying back and hitting the rear window. The grenade started to smoke. We BOTH jumped out of the cab of the truck and hit the dirt. Fortunately, it was just the fuse.
A few weeks later, I was pulled over. Two officers one on both sides of the truck kept shining the flashlight on my gear shifter. The one officer couldn't help himself and finally asked me, "Is that live?" I responded, "No, it is de-activated." He then asked, "Are you sure?" I responded, "Trust me." Final response was that he thought is was pretty cool. I still got a ticket, but I deserved it. I still have the grenade, the truck is long gone...
A few weeks later, I was pulled over. Two officers one on both sides of the truck kept shining the flashlight on my gear shifter. The one officer couldn't help himself and finally asked me, "Is that live?" I responded, "No, it is de-activated." He then asked, "Are you sure?" I responded, "Trust me." Final response was that he thought is was pretty cool. I still got a ticket, but I deserved it. I still have the grenade, the truck is long gone...
Ohio Gun Guy
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MP7 - Whats known is just likely a fraction of whats lying around.
hirundo82
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So that's where the Mexican drug cartels are getting their grenades--from a garage in Michigan. The media knew it had to be America's fault somehow.
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Sounds like he found the grenade, PULLED the pin and let go of the spoon, and then realizes its live and tosses it. Popo shows up and he didn't want to admit he had pulled a pin on a live grenade and said it "fell out", to which popo remembers that Rambo can pull the pin with his teeth and said, OK.
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Old Ordnance!
Howdy.
Heard of a guy, in the town where I live, who's father was on his deathbed and told another old veteran that there was a live 40MM AA round in his workshop.
The old vet told the sick guy's son, who, after his father's death, went through every square inch of the workshop (and basement, garage and everywhere else), looking for it.
He never found it, and could only surmise that his father was a bit delusional.
He said he sure tiptoed around that workshop for a couple of months though.
I can't believe that a vet wouldn't know how to stick the pin back in that grenade either.
Thanks for your time.
Howdy.
Heard of a guy, in the town where I live, who's father was on his deathbed and told another old veteran that there was a live 40MM AA round in his workshop.
The old vet told the sick guy's son, who, after his father's death, went through every square inch of the workshop (and basement, garage and everywhere else), looking for it.
He never found it, and could only surmise that his father was a bit delusional.
He said he sure tiptoed around that workshop for a couple of months though.
I can't believe that a vet wouldn't know how to stick the pin back in that grenade either.
Thanks for your time.
mgregg85
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Heh, I love it... When in doubt, throw it in your neighbor's yard.
stonecutter2
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A next door neighbor of my friend had a practice grenade in his garage. We were setting off fireworks in the street on the 4th of July, and he said, "You wanna see something cool?" So he went into his garage and got his practice grenade (I don't remember the exact circumstances of he explained that he had one), and made us all get really far away. Then he pulled the "pin"...which was more like a string, and which somehow flared up and caught his shirt on fire a little? That startled him a bit, and he tossed the grenade out into the street.
It sat there and smoked, and then stopped smoking...and just sat there. We all thought it very anti-climactic, and it was a dud. We stood there for awhile. The guy took literally a 1/2 step toward it and then BOOOOM!!!!!! That hurt my ears pretty good. Thank God he didn't walk closer to it. We all cheered wildly though, because it really was a heckuva explosion.
My friends parents came out and said, "What are you guys blowing off out here?! Cherry bombs?!" And the neighbor started cracking up...he admitted it was his idea, and he didn't know if it was going to go off or not.
He was pretty ticked that his shirt got burned. My friends' parents were pretty ticked off that the cops were probably going to show up...we all moved inside for awhile.
It sat there and smoked, and then stopped smoking...and just sat there. We all thought it very anti-climactic, and it was a dud. We stood there for awhile. The guy took literally a 1/2 step toward it and then BOOOOM!!!!!! That hurt my ears pretty good. Thank God he didn't walk closer to it. We all cheered wildly though, because it really was a heckuva explosion.
My friends parents came out and said, "What are you guys blowing off out here?! Cherry bombs?!" And the neighbor started cracking up...he admitted it was his idea, and he didn't know if it was going to go off or not.
He was pretty ticked that his shirt got burned. My friends' parents were pretty ticked off that the cops were probably going to show up...we all moved inside for awhile.
Maverick223
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You guys assume too much...perhaps there was only 2ft² of fence. 
Do most de-activated grenades still have active fuses. If so I am sure glad I didn't know that when I was younger.
JustinL
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I agree with the BS aspect to the story. From what I have been told (I am an airman) the grenade's fuse can be activated as soon as the pin is removed even though the spoon is in place. Am told that it can often sense the subtle movement of the spoon after the pin is out and start the 'count down' even though the spoon is still in place. Of course, I could be wrong.
Sav .250
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Pin just fell out............I`m thinking it was a Chinese product.
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