Pulling the pin out

[Jazzy]

An Indiana man is dead after a grenade discovered in a grandfather's belongings detonated.

According to a post from the Lake County Sheriff's Department, officers responded to a call of an explosion before 6:30 p.m. Saturday night in the community of Lakes of the Four Seasons.

The family was looking through their grandfather's belongings when they found the handheld explosive device and it went off.

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I can’t imagine pulling the pin out of a grenade. Granted keeping a grenade is a bit odd to start with but finding it and deciding that pulling the pin out is beyond me.

Your thoughts?

 

[tango]

Sometimes you just can't fix stupid.

That said, is it possible the pin caught on something unexpectedly? It's not as if you'd expect to find a live grenade in a box of mementos, so if you suddenly found yourself holding a novelty pizza slicer with a curious thing hanging off of it you probably wouldn't figure it was the pin to a grenade and get out fast.