Family heirloom mini-bomb turns out to be live (VIDEO)

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Family heirloom mini-bomb turns out to be live (VIDEO)

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Wow. Glad none of these idiots (Jeremy Bechen was the only "non-idiot") where injured! :shock: :roll:


Family heirloom mini-bomb turns out to be live (VIDEO)
A Massachusetts man cleaning out his family’s garage over the weekend found a small blue bomb-shaped item that his grandfather had since the 1930s.

Jeremy Bechen told Boston25 he thought after looking close enough at the Navy veteran’s keepsake that there was more to it than met the eye.

“My parents had always told me that this was a dummy — not a real device — and on closer inspection, you can see the charge in there,” said Bechen. “It was kind of a heart-skip moment. You look down the tail pipe of it and see, ‘Oh, there’s something in there!’”

Bomb techs examined the device and took an X-ray of it, determining it was indeed still live ...
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at a local museum, in the artifact case, sat a grenade. it was thought to be inert. decades later, someone got the idea to check it. It was hot.
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Well, to be fair, it was (is) a live sim device, not a live bomb. Granted, that doesn't make it safe, per se, but there is a difference.
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