Chuckling

I can remember seeing a pineapple grenade
In the neighbors garage stored in the attic about
50 years ago (wanna guess how HOT an attic gets
In the summer in south central Kansas?)

It was wired and taped so it just wouldnt go off

Then years later I hear heat is very bad for pineapple
grenades. Something about it deteriorates something
In the explosive compound and they can blow with
Spoon and Pin in place. (Per the ex EOD person)

Anyone know if this is true?

It is likely the size of the crater grew with each retelling of the story.

Years ago a reporter was handed an artillery shell that sloshed. His guide said, "That's poison gas!"

Tragic boating accident.

Not sure, but it blew the hell up. We used to play in the yard near it quite a bit. Timing was fortunate, for sure.

Munitions disappearing is a thing.  Your unit sends someone to the munitions depot with forms filled out by your battalion ammo guy, they pick up what ever is listed and take it to the range or demo area it’s going to be trained with and at the end of the training all the stuff is generally accounted for and returned.  Sometimes stuff like grenades don’t all get used but aren’t sent back and really can’t be accounted for like loose brass that is supposed to get turned in since the only real thing that can be accounted for is the pin and spoon and those can can be bought anywhere that sells surplus.  So a few frags walk away and are never to be seen again.  Also many times the depots don’t want stuff back especially stuff in small quantities like open cases of 5.56, 9mm what ever since it aperantly it’s a pain to log it back in so they tell folks to shoot it up or disappear it.  Lots of stuff not destined to go back often times was dumped or buried around FT. Bragg training areas when I was there and occasionally you would find stuff humping around the woods as an example I was a mortar guy for a while and we were humping around one of the ranges and I about tripped over a metal ammo can full of cheese charges.  For those that don’t know they were the proppelent for mortar rounds and they are supposed to be turned in for disposal but are generally put in a pile and set on fire to burn off and that’s that.  Well the tards who left these in an ammo can could of lit them up but decided to leave them on the range for the next group to deal with, so we did and burned them when we were done.  So long story short, yes these things can walk away if people are careless and or crooked and the stuff that goes boom can find its way off post especially when I was in since bases like Bragg were open at the time and didn’t have gate guards.

Never understood why people wouldn’t just remove the fuse from old grenades since from what I understand is it’s the fuse that cooks off in a fire or just gets super sensitive and fires and the stuff inside won’t go off in fire.  I could be wrong about that though.

Or a bus garage door.

It's also a line that you start using once you have kids and just want to chill out after lunch before going back to supervising kids in the water.

You omitted "Honest, it's just a cold sore."

Cold sore = slang for oral herpes.

Were you thinking canker sore (eg. The one that ISN’T transmissible)?

My brother, who lived near Fort Ord, tells a story of some kids who "found" a Russian hand grenade. So they decided to take it to the forest and detonate it.
It was a Russian Spetznaz grenade, designed for " special " work, i.e. booby traps, so it was designed such that the fuse could be easily trimmed. The fuse on their grenade was set to zero seconds.
Fortunately, their dad got wind of it and delivered it to the proper authorities.

Well, it certainly isn't mine.

I never knew that tall tales were so corrosive.

The zero second delay thing is pretty much an old wives tale. But they are easily boobytrapped in about a thousand other ways.

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