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Not A Good Idea To Bring Hand Grenade to Government Office
November 01, 2012 posted by Steve Brownstein
by Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News
A man recentlytook a grenade he found on a south Memphis,Tennessee lot to Memphis Fire Station No. 14.
He feared that if he turned the grenade in to the police, they might keep him all day.
He parked in front of the fire station, leaving the grenade in the truck when he told firefighters about it.
The fire department took him to a back room, away from the fire station windows.
A fire department battalion chief made a bomb threat report to Memphis police.
Nearby residences, about two dozen of them, were evacuated if people were at home; police blocked off the street for about two blocks, and the police bomb squad arrived to safely cart the grenade away.
A police report described it as an old military-grade grenade with a rusted pin and the handle still intact.
The man had found it stuck in the ground of a lot where a house had been demolished days earlier.
Police determined that the grenade was hollowed out and not a “live” grenade that could have exploded.
