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Austin - Live WWII-era grenades found in Texas estate sale boxes
Posted on 10/13/26 at 11:46 am
Posted on 10/13/26 at 11:46 am
Looks like grandpa was ready for a fight.
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A Central Texas resident got an unexpected surprise Monday after buying boxes at an estate sale: live grenades believed to date back to World War II.
Officers responded, and the Austin Police Department's Bomb Squad confirmed the grenades were live and active.
https://www.chron.com/texas/article/austin-grenades-texas-estate-sale-22474760.php
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"Our officers responded to an unusual call today. A resident bought some boxes at an estate sale and, while going through them, found what appeared to be World War II-era grenades," the Austin Police Association posted to Instagram on Monday. "APD's Bomb Squad confirmed they were live and active."
Posted on 10/13/26 at 11:47 am to Shexter
Antique Tiger just made a little money off some poor sucker
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Posted on 10/13/26 at 12:02 pm to Shexter
I’d be very interested to see if they still work. If so, that is more than impressive. Not only for the craftsmanship of still working, but also for the safety features that allowed them to not explode after sitting dormant for 80 years.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 12:02 pm to Shexter
It pained me to forfeit the grenades. But I kept the stolen Nazi art and it will look great in my living room.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 12:10 pm to Shexter
Potato Masher looks German
What about the other two? (maybe Japanese)
U S grenades (pineapples) were designed for Americans who grew up with baseball and were made to use that skill in combat.
Maybe grandpa was a kraut or a jap?
Posted on 10/13/26 at 12:11 pm to Shexter
Any Zyklon B canisters in there?
Posted on 10/13/26 at 12:12 pm to Shexter
The “M21 Pract” in the canister is just a practice grenade.
Better safe than sorry with the rest of them!
Better safe than sorry with the rest of them!
Posted on 10/13/26 at 12:17 pm to CocomoLSU
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I’d be very interested to see if they still work.
I'd imagine some EOD technician is dying to find that out too and they will be set up on a range to blow remotely right before someone figures out how to pull the pin from a distance.
If they don't go off, they blow them remotely. If they do go off, no need.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 12:30 pm to Shexter
They had this same scenario last year out in LosAngeles County Sheriff's Department. Three EOD techs picked up a box of grenades from a storage unit and were at the bomb disposal range to get rid of them. No one knows, or isn't saying, exactly what happened but one of the grenades detonated and killed them. Turned into a big mess politically as well when it was determined one of the techs had some other unauthorized stuff at his house.
I know some EOD guys and they will tell you that old ordnance is by far the most dangerous.
I know some EOD guys and they will tell you that old ordnance is by far the most dangerous.
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Last summer, a grenade exploded at an L.A. County Sheriff’s Department training facility, killing three bomb squad detectives. Now, the L.A. County district attorney’s office is considering whether to file criminal charges in their deaths.
The sheriff’s arson and explosives unit retrieved two abandoned grenades from the garage of a Santa Monica apartment complex on July 17. The explosives were then moved to the Biscailuz Center Training Academy in L.A., where one of the grenades detonated the next day, killing Dets. Victor Lemus, Joshua Kelley-Eklund and William Osborn and marking the department’s deadliest incident in more than 150 years.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 1:18 pm to Shexter
Imagine getting something this awesome and then calling the police
Posted on 10/13/26 at 1:27 pm to deltaland
There was a thread on X recently about a family cleaning out parents home and finding an old mortar shell that ended up being live. Local bomb squad took it and detonated remotely. In that thread, they mentioned the mortar shell was once used as a door stop. Crazy what people have in their homes.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 1:40 pm to GeauxOn
There is a submarine canyon that runs off shore, underwater from Charleston South Carolina.
Ir was used as a dump area for explosive ordinance after wars.
That existence of those potential explosives is the reason that we don't know why that submarine canyon is that far south, the age of it and much less the stability of the eroded walls.
Ir was used as a dump area for explosive ordinance after wars.
That existence of those potential explosives is the reason that we don't know why that submarine canyon is that far south, the age of it and much less the stability of the eroded walls.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 2:08 pm to Shexter
But would you pull the pin?
Posted on 10/13/26 at 2:47 pm to Shexter
That's definitely a Japanese knee mortar round and Japanese grenades. Not sure what the long piece in the middle is but isn't a German grenade.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 2:53 pm to ChewyDante
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Not sure what the long piece in the middle is
That's a storage/transport container for a pop flare. Metal ends, heavy cardboard sections. The line around the middle is the seam where it comes apart in half.
I know because I have one sitting in my safe with some important papers rolled up inside it.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 2:57 pm to Cheese Grits
quote:My dad used to have a few dummy pineapples laying around the house. It’s not surprising at all that a lot of the great 50s pitchers were WWII vets.
U S grenades (pineapples) were designed for Americans who grew up with baseball and were made to use that skill in combat.
I’m amazed that those potato mashers held up so long.
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