90 Yr. Old Woman Brings Live WWII Grenade 'Relic' to German Police Station

[appalachiablue]

An elderly woman caused her local police station to be evacuated when she turned up packing a live grenade unaware it was still a live explosive. It was the city of Leverkusen’s Opladen police station where the woman went to ask officers for help in disposing of what she thought was an old military relic. She held the explosive in her hand and told officials her husband had brought it as a keepsake weapon from the front decades ago, but after his death she no longer wanted to display it in her house.

Despite the woman’s casual manner, police decided to handle the object, which looked like a Soviet-made frag grenade from the war, with caution and quickly discovered they were right to do so. The ordnance, although old, was unexploded, triggering an immediate alarm to all staff. The station quickly called in a bomb disposal squad, and an explosives team safely discharged the wartime explosive. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/90-year-old-woman-brings-live-wwii-grenade-to-police/ar-BBMZMjM
https://www.dw.com/en/leverkusen-pensioner-brings-live-wwii-grenade-to-police-station/a-45388521

[Renew Deal]

1. I have this old water bottle

[appalachiablue]

6. Lol!

[Hekate]

2. I think there's old munitions all over Europe. Well into my adulthood I heard of French farmers ...

...periodically running their plows over something, with unfortunate results. The US has been lucky not to have had world wars on our continent.

[Blue_true]

3. The fact that we have never had a world war on our planet.

Likely explain why we are a bit messed up about the perils of war. No one had to hide out in bomb shelters or have invading armies nearing town. The Civil War was too long ago, no one is alive that experienced it.

[appalachiablue]

4. For sure, all over and in France from WWI too I think. The DW

link in the OP has suggested stories about other German cities dealing with WWII bombs- Cologne, Berlin, more.

https://www.dw.com/en/50000-evacuated-in-hanover-germany-over-world-war-ii-bombs/a-38734208

[Fla_Democrat]

5. Sea Mine

Nah, just a lot of junk.......

[appalachiablue]

7. Great one, tx.

[parkia00]

8. Once had to alert an eBay seller

selling an antique metal pestle with a wooden handle. It was actually a Chinese hand grenade with a screw cap on the end of the wooden shaft which you unscrewed and pull a cord to light the fuse. Apparently the pestle had been well used...

[Wounded Bear]

9. Old ordinance is unstable ordinance...

Handle gently. A sudden shock can often cause old ordinance like that to go off.

The lady is lucky.