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on: March 08, 2005, 10:02:56 AM

Quote from: AP
Worker Discovers Live Grenade In Cafeteria

POSTED: 10:38 am EST March 8, 2005
UPDATED: 10:59 am EST March 8, 2005

MIAMI -- A cafeteria worker found a live grenade Tuesday morning on a counter where people typically order coffee and doughnuts.

The Opportunity Cafeteria had just opened when the unidentified worker found the grenade on one corner of the counter.

Officers from the Miami Police Department say the grenade was active with its pin still in place.

The department's bomb squad took the grenade to a secure location and detonated it.

No injuries have been reported and there was no damage to any structures.

Investigators are now determining how the grenade got there.

No other devices were found at the cafeteria.
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Reply #1 on: March 08, 2005, 01:20:34 PM

That happened to me when I was a kid...my buddy and I were walking down our dead end street when we saw a strange object in the middle of the road. Curious, we walked toward it. At about 15 feet or so, I realized what it was, grabbed my buddy, and hightailed it to my house and called the police. They came out and investigated- it was deactivated (empty). The semi-retarded kid from across the street got it from an uncle or something and had left it in the middle of the road. Scared the shit out of me, I tell ya.

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Reply #2 on: March 08, 2005, 05:27:43 PM

The proper response would have been to throw rocks at it until it blows up. I know this because I grew up in an area that was used as a firing range in WWII and converted to suburban bliss in the 70s. Every now and then when it rained some live ordnance would find its way to the surface and invariably kids would throw rocks at them and be killed or maimed in the ensuing explosion.
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Reply #3 on: March 08, 2005, 06:02:49 PM

Can't you buy dead grenades at army surplus stores?
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Reply #4 on: March 08, 2005, 07:08:30 PM

Can't you buy dead grenades at army surplus stores?

Yes.

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Reply #5 on: March 08, 2005, 08:26:15 PM

Can't you buy dead grenades at army surplus stores?

Yes.

A friend of mine owned training grenades which were filled with sand, but they were weighted the same as regular grenades.

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Reply #6 on: March 09, 2005, 06:29:49 AM

And old rifles without firing pins, old bombs, gas masks, you name it you can probably find it. We have a lot of army/navy stores around here, used to use them as props with my band occasionally. Nothing dangerous, though, unless you club someone over the head with a bomb.
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