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2008-06-24 Great White North

Canadian woman finds brand new grenade in backyard

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-06-24 10:59|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 known locally as 'Wal-Mart tumbleweeds'
You Texans certainly know how to turn a phrase.

Posted by GK 2008-06-24 12:37|| 2008-06-24 12:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Any...ummmmmmmmmmmm...mosques in the neighborhood, hon?

Posted by tu3031 2008-06-24 13:33|| 2008-06-24 13:33|| Front Page Top

#3 How typical of Reuters to broadcast our military secrets around the world! No one was supposed to know about this form of supply.

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2008-06-24 13:54|| 2008-06-24 13:54|| Front Page Top

#4 How do they know it was really and truly a BRAND NEW Grenade?

did it have a 'Best before..." date on it?
did it have the "tag not to be removed under penalty of law" tag on it ( call in the mattress police, grenade division)
i wanna know?

it could have been worse, could have been another foot.

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-06-24 14:03|| 2008-06-24 14:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Semi-seriously, I hope somebody took the lot number down. Follow that up, and it will be interesting where it leads.

Posted by N guard 2008-06-24 14:31|| 2008-06-24 14:31|| Front Page Top

#6 "Police called in the bomb squad, which determined the item was a grenade, still in its packaging and belonging to the Canadian military."

"called military personnel in to dispose of the ordnance"

Something I don't understand here. It was a brand new grenade still in its packaging. Why would it need to be "disposed of"? Why not just put it back into inventory?

If it was in its original packaging, it would have the serial number, manufacturer, date of manufacture, and manufacturing lot number on it. At the very least the manufacturer would know where that grenade was shipped originally.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-24 15:24|| 2008-06-24 15:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Probably a knee-jerk reaction. But not entirely unreasonable (assuming the EOD folks got a robot look at it before detonating) since it's possible with some effort to unseal the packaging, add nasties to it and reseal.

Posted by lotp 2008-06-24 16:13|| 2008-06-24 16:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, given the loss of control over it, you'd have to assume it may have been tampered with and it's safer to destroy it than to pop it back into inventory.

Consider if they cut the fuse down to almost nothing and you issued it for recruits to do live training with. It blows up 5 feet after being thrown, you'll wind up with wounded recruits and cadre.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2008-06-24 17:09|| 2008-06-24 17:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Canada: America's Hat

Yes, indeed. Keeping us cool in the summer, warm in the winter, and and hiding our receding hairline. ;-)

If the grenade was in the back yard, it probably didn't just fall off a delivery truck, right? Seriously, how the heck did the thing get into a back yard?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-24 17:13|| 2008-06-24 17:13|| Front Page Top

#10 I'll bet George W Bush put it there.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-24 18:05|| 2008-06-24 18:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Damn - they found our pre-invasion stockpile.

Posted by Pappy 2008-06-24 19:16|| 2008-06-24 19:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Do they ship them with the detonators installed? Not smart.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-06-24 20:56|| 2008-06-24 20:56|| Front Page Top

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