Hand Grenade Found In Goodwill Donations

[GodFearinGunTotin]

OK...who's missing a hand grenade?

Hand Grenade Found In Goodwill Donations - WBIW.com / State

 

[JetGirl]

...the fuse had been pulled and the bottom drilled out to remove anything explosive inside.

Sooo...a "paper weight", then. Hm. *yawn*

 

[HoughMade]

Exactly. I'd be surprised if 75% of INGO doesn't have one of these lying around.....I do.

 

[stephen87]

You think they'll give it back to me?

 

[Hkindiana]

Right after 9/11 I went to the museum at Ft. Knox military base and the usually unmanned gate was guarded by armed soldiers who were searching every cr entering the base. They searched my car, and even my cooler. They even used mirrors to look under my car. Once they let me pass, and I parked at the museum, I reached over to lock my passenger door and saw that I had one of these paperweights in my cup holder IN PLAIN SIGHT. I don't know how the soldiers missed it, but was glad, because I would have had some "splainen" to do as Desi Arnez would say.

 

[Trigger Time]

What a waste of the police time. Can't those idiots at the store tell a replica of dummy from a real one? Why did this even make news??

 

[Gluemanz28]

What a waste of the police time. Can't those idiots at the store tell a replica of dummy from a real one? Why did this even make news??

The goodwill store up in Elkhart are manned by people doing community service hours. If they were very smart they wouldn't be doing community service hours.

 

[hoosierdoc]

If you see it in a pocket, I don't blame them for calling police. If it's sitting on its side on a table, that's a different thing.

 

[T.Lex]

Was it the _____ Hand Grenade of Antioch?

 

[Leadeye]

Years ago when I was in the NFA business had a customer show me a 40mm M79 round talking about getting it from a friend. After looking at it I handed it back and asked him if he knew it was a live round, no he didn't. A week later he asked if I could get rid of it for him, called ATF guys and took care of it.

 

[Mark 1911]

The lady who runs our transportation department has one of those in her window with a sign hanging from the pin that says, "Complaint Department, Please Take a Number".

 

[eldirector]

The lady who runs our transportation department has one of those in her window with a sign hanging from the pin that says, "Complaint Department, Please Take a Number".

Dave's All American Pizza out in Danville has the same. Still has a #1 hanging in the pin. No complaints yet!

 

[Trigger Time]

Years ago when I was in the NFA business had a customer show me a 40mm M79 round talking about getting it from a friend. After looking at it I handed it back and asked him if he knew it was a live round, no he didn't. A week later he asked if I could get rid of it for him, called ATF guys and took care of it.

- Is it live?
+ I Dont know.
- take it outside and throw It in the air afew time.

Wait for boom

 

[BogWalker]

I've got one of those dummy grenades around. Used to pull the pin and say "catch" while tossing it towards a friend that didn't know it was inert. Good times, good times.

 

[Leadeye]

- Is it live?
+ I Dont know.
- take it outside and throw It in the air afew time.

Wait for boom

They have to spin at a certain rate to arm, still would not want it displayed on the fireplace mantle which is where he had it.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

The lady who runs our transportation department has one of those in her window with a sign hanging from the pin that says, "Complaint Department, Please Take a Number".

I've seen those--pretty funny.