Dog plays fetch with hand grenade

[McWigglebum4th]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-2882861...

Dog said he had a blast

Owner said thankfully the dog didn't get a blast

[creampuff]

Quite a coincidence an "off duty explosives expert" being close enough to a man who just happened to be chucking a hand grenade around to see what was going on.

[madbadger]

And the man thought it was a rock?

Have tennis balls gone up that much in price?

All seems a bit odd.

[GTIR]

It surprises me that hand grenades can be washed up anywhere. Assuming before they come to the beach they'd need to be moved from the seabed.

Do hand grenades float?

[Einion Yrth]

creampuff said:

Quite a coincidence an "off duty explosives expert" being close enough to a man who just happened to be chucking a hand grenade around to see what was going on.

In fairness I suspect that I'd be enough of an "explosives expert" to recognise a hand grenade when I saw one.

[ukbabz]

GTIR said:

It surprises me that hand grenades can be washed up anywhere. Assuming before they come to the beach they'd need to be moved from the seabed.

Do hand grenades float?

Perhaps it was stirred up with the high tides that came with Bertha last week?

[Some Gump]

Jesus. How in gods name can anyone come to the conclusion that the best thing to do with a grenade is play fetch? I could understand someone throwing it and letting it blow up in the sea - it'd be stupid, but understandable. But Fetch? Really? Man deserves an honorary Darwin for that!

[FunkyNige]

To be fair they can just look like rocks after being underwater for years



Not the best photo as you can see the grenade pattern still, but you can see that the rock has 'grown' over half of it. Wouldn't take much to cover it all.

[Pesty]

Cough Bullst cough.

[Rude-boy]

Some Gump said:

Jesus. How in gods name can anyone come to the conclusion that the best thing to do with a grenade is play fetch? I could understand someone throwing it and letting it blow up in the sea - it'd be stupid, but understandable. But Fetch? Really? Man deserves an honorary Darwin for that!

I understand that in some parts of the World during war time a fair few were 'encouraged' to paly such a game for the amusement of their guards...

[kingofdbrits]

I found an old hand grenade in our garden, I was about 10 years old and trying to pull our pet rabbit out of a hole it had dug under it's run. It was just a ball of mud and couldn't see what it was, it felt heavy, so naturally i threw it at my brother. Only when my dad cleaned it up did we see what it was.

There was no charge in it so no chance of it blowing up. Our house was taken over by the army in WW2 and we've found loads of bits from that time. When cleaning up they lifted a floor boards and swept everything in the void between the sand & floorboards, had a large pile of news papers, gas masks and ciggie packs amongst other things, including when stripping wall paper found people had written their numbers on the wall.

We assume the grenade was being used for training?

[crankedup]

This makes five grenades (BBC Look East)to be washed up onto this beach during the past few weeks! One theory is that a box of grenades was washed off a vessel during WW2 and that box is now breaking open.

[creampuff]

I was in Cambodia once and I thought I'd chuck a hand grenade in a lake, as you do.

As I was standing there and about to pull the pin, I thought to myself "I'm in a third world country, I don't know who has made this hand grenade or how old it is and I don't know if the timed fuse still works or if it will go off as soon as the pin is pulled".

But then I thought to myself "I've already paid $15 for it".

[Grumfutock]

creampuff said:

I was in Cambodia once and I thought I'd chuck a hand grenade in a lake, as you do.

As I was standing there and about to pull the pin, I thought to myself "I'm in a third world country, I don't know who has made this hand grenade or how old it is and I don't know if the timed fuse still works or if it will go off as soon as the pin is pulled".

But then I thought to myself "I've already paid $15 for it".

Love it!

[Grumfutock]

Some Gump said:

Jesus. How in gods name can anyone come to the conclusion that the best thing to do with a grenade is play fetch? I could understand someone throwing it and letting it blow up in the sea - it'd be stupid, but understandable. But Fetch? Really? Man deserves an honorary Darwin for that!

To be fair there was a picture of the last one they found but damn if I can find now. These mortar shells show how bad they can be and how hard to identify. The picture of the grenade i saw was along these lines.

[crankedup]

A grenade found on a beach is one thing but compare that to the sunken ship laying just off Southend -on - Sea. This is the vessel packed with explosives and sunk where it now lays during the WW2. At low tide you can just see one of the smoke stacks poking above the waterline. (Boris Airport anyone)

[Some Gump]

crankedup said:

A grenade found on a beach is one thing but compare that to the sunken ship laying just off Southend -on - Sea. This is the vessel packed with explosives and sunk where it now lays during the WW2. At low tide you can just see one of the smoke stacks poking above the waterline. (Boris Airport anyone)

I think I read somewhere that if that ship goes up, it'll spoil the afternoon for a vast swathe of London. If that is the case, I'm surprised that there isn't more worry about nutters trying to use it as a weapon..

[Rude-boy]

creampuff said:

I was in Cambodia once and I thought I'd chuck a hand grenade in a lake, as you do.

As I was standing there and about to pull the pin, I thought to myself "I'm in a third world country, I don't know who has made this hand grenade or how old it is and I don't know if the timed fuse still works or if it will go off as soon as the pin is pulled".

But then I thought to myself "I've already paid $15 for it".

This post is exactly why I find it so hard to turn this place off when I should be working!!!!

[Pesty]

Metal detector finds nade. Pulls pin and throws it.

Fast forward to 19 minutes

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BKEuBDX-taw


He didn't actually throw it according to him.

Edited by Pesty on Thursday 21st August 16:44

[crankedup]

Some Gump said:

crankedup said:

A grenade found on a beach is one thing but compare that to the sunken ship laying just off Southend -on - Sea. This is the vessel packed with explosives and sunk where it now lays during the WW2. At low tide you can just see one of the smoke stacks poking above the waterline. (Boris Airport anyone)

I think I read somewhere that if that ship goes up, it'll spoil the afternoon for a vast swathe of London. If that is the case, I'm surprised that there isn't more worry about nutters trying to use it as a weapon..

Its all a little delicate apparently, not something Southend-On-Sea tend to mention in public! It would certainly cause one hell of a bang if it did explode!

Meanwhile back to 'grenade beach' the area has now been roped off and the public warned to stay clear. Bomb disposal are to 'sweep' the area.