School evacuated as boy takes grenade to show-and-tell
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Lol reminds me of playing soldiers with my friends as a kid lobbing real neutralized surplus grenades at each other, basically ~3lb chunks of steel at that point. Let the kids play with grenades!!
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so she took it from the boy and slowly placed it behind a "substantial" tree
Nice
It reminds me when I was clearing out by grandparents garage and my dad threw a grenade at me. It was hollowed out but it still gave me a heart attack.
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Lol reminds me of playing soldiers with my friends as a kid lobbing real neutralized surplus grenades at each other, basically ~3lb chunks of steel at that point. Let the kids play with grenades!!
It isn't always safe
I remember watching a documentary about left over land mines from WWII. There was a French mom who had her son show her a live land mine he dug up. They evacuated the home and the bomb squad came in to detonate it.
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Dating myself… This brings back bad memories…
In the 70’s in elementary school I had a classmate who had a brother about two years younger than we were. In 1978 when the brother was only 8 years old he was killed in a freak accident. The family had moved to a new house whose previous owner collected war memorabilia. The brother found a hand grenade that had somehow been left behind. It was live and blew up in his hands.
Ten years later my former classmate was killed on board the Pan Am 103 bombing.
Archived New York Times article that is mostly about my classmate but mentions the death of the younger brother as well: https://archive.is/ykLi0
Those were the only two children in that family. I still think about them all from time to time to this very day…
