Otis family finds live grenade in Father’s house after he passed

[clearconscience]

Oregon woman finds potentially live WWII grenade in dad’s garage

Lincoln County Sheriff's officials said a woman in rural Otis found a WWII hand grenade in her late father's garage.

www.oregonlive.com

NIB!

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[L84Cabo]

Why all the time and energy invested in examining it? I can tell you whether it's live on not in about 5 seconds.

But seriously...if it is live they're not going to keep something that old around anyway. They'll blow it up. So make sure down range is clear, pull that pin and give it a toss. Let's see what happens!

 

[Stomper]

Why all the time and energy invested in examining it? I can tell you whether it's live on not in about 5 seconds.

But seriously...if it is live they're not going to keep something that old around anyway. They'll blow it up. So make sure down range is clear, pull that pin and give it a toss. Let's see what happens!

Yeah, what's the worst that could happen.... it'd blow up?

 

[mkwerx]

Or shut up, and like Micky Mouse, keep it as a special tool that might come in handy later

 

[Flopsweat]

Or shut up, and like Micky Mouse, keep it as a special tool that might come in handy later

Or let Bugs handle it: Falling Hare

 

[MannyGlocks]

I'd pull the pin...from way over there!

 

[Capn Jack]

Or...Call Chicken Little, cause your know....THE SKY IS FALLING !!!!

It is indeed a sad day....

It's a good thing they didn't find any...GASP !!! ...AMMUNITION...

 

[Ura-Ki]

There was a Grenade factory near the Saint John's Bridge east side ( Schnitzer Steel ) not far from Oregon Steel Mill during WW2 that turned out millions of them! The employees are known to have taken several, usually bad castings that we're going to be crushed and re cast, but some times a live one made it out in somebody's lunch bucket!

 

[Unka-Boo]

We found a couple of 37mm ap/tracer rounds in my grandparents attic, grandpa was gonna make lamps....

New in the cardboard shipping tubes, dated '42...was a fun call, "Hi, what do I need to do about live ordnance?"

 

[The Heretic]

Are they stable after 70 years?

What if it didn't explode - had a hang fire? How long would you wait before approaching?

Something that old, that I have no training/experience with, I would call the experts too.

That said, I still don't know what my dad did with his blasting caps that were 50 years old. Maybe he took my advice and gave them to someone with a license?

 

[L84Cabo]

Yeah, what's the worst that could happen.... it'd blow up?

Meh. I ain't scared. I'm living through a freaking pandemic! Bring it on!

 

[Stomper]

Meh. I ain't scared. I'm living through a freaking pandemic! Bring it on!

The only pandemic at my house is cleaning the cast iron skillet after I'm done cooking an omelet and some bacon!

 

[gmerkt]

A live grenade, great souvenir. All these years later, I think back on all the stuff I could've stolen. Trucks, even. Who's gonna stop a 5 ton cargo truck rolling down the road with a guy in fatigues at the wheel? In a reserve units, it might take weeks for something like that to be missed. National Guard and USAR vehicle parks used to be very lax in security pre 9-11. Pre security cameras everywhere. I'm surprised more military vehicles didn't disappear. Or maybe they did, we just didn't hear about it. Back in the early 1970's, I knew a guy who had one of those aluminum body M422 Mighty Mites, the "jeep" made for the USMC. I asked him how he got it. He said a friend stole most of it from the USMC Depot at Barstow, Calif. I said, "You don't just put one of those in a lunch pail." He explained that the aluminum body was fork-lifted over a fence, then hauled away after dark.

When I was in Vietnam, yes, vehicles and weapons did get stolen. But mostly they went to other units, didn't leave country. Some of them changed sides, so to speak.

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

that does not surprise me coming from otis