joe_momma
24th November 2010, 09:14 AM
Fool's luck:
San Francisco sheriff's deputies were carrying out a foreclosure eviction out on 47th Avenue the other afternoon when they found something that stopped them dead in their tracks.
Inside a box in the garage was what appeared to be a hand grenade.
The deputies called the cops, who called the bomb squad, who came out and confirmed that, indeed, it was a live, World War II, Russian-made hand grenade.
It was also decided that the grenade was too volatile to transport, so it was blown up by the bomb squad in a special box.
Inspector Jeff Levin said the house's 60-year owner told him the grenade had been left in storage by his 40-year-old former son-in-law.
Levin tracked that man down to a Tenderloin hotel where he lives to ask how he got hold of the deadly explosive.
"A friend gave it to me back in 1993," the clueless ex-son-in-law said. "I thought it was a paperweight."
Then he added: "I'd tried a couple of times to pull out the pin, but I couldn't get it to budge."
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/23/BAH11GGJA5.DTL#ixzz16DW2q4R2 (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/23/BAH11GGJA5.DTL#ixzz16DW2q4R2)
San Francisco sheriff's deputies were carrying out a foreclosure eviction out on 47th Avenue the other afternoon when they found something that stopped them dead in their tracks.
Inside a box in the garage was what appeared to be a hand grenade.
The deputies called the cops, who called the bomb squad, who came out and confirmed that, indeed, it was a live, World War II, Russian-made hand grenade.
It was also decided that the grenade was too volatile to transport, so it was blown up by the bomb squad in a special box.
Inspector Jeff Levin said the house's 60-year owner told him the grenade had been left in storage by his 40-year-old former son-in-law.
Levin tracked that man down to a Tenderloin hotel where he lives to ask how he got hold of the deadly explosive.
"A friend gave it to me back in 1993," the clueless ex-son-in-law said. "I thought it was a paperweight."
Then he added: "I'd tried a couple of times to pull out the pin, but I couldn't get it to budge."
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/23/BAH11GGJA5.DTL#ixzz16DW2q4R2 (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/23/BAH11GGJA5.DTL#ixzz16DW2q4R2)