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Subscribe to RSSPolice in South Los Angeles are trying to figure out why someone left a pair of old military grenades in the backyard fire pit of a house.
The new owner of a home in the 400-block of 70th Street was doing some cleaning and happened upon the rusted explosives, said Omar Bazulto, the watch commander at the Los Angeles Police Department's Newton Division.
The pins, which trigger grenades to blow up, were still intact.
Officers evacuated a 300-foot area around the house shortly after noon on Sunday, when the explosives were discovered.
It was not immediately clear how old the grenades were, of if the ammunition inside was still live.
The department's bomb squad planned to detonate the grenades on site on Sunday.
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Maybe because he is a a-hole?
He should have kept them in case there is another LA riot.
When I was a kid, I had a world war two hand grenade. I figured out how to use it to pop cap gun caps.
Did you ever try to throw one? Man, those suckers were heavy, even without the explosive.
@stonepipe2, it takes one to know one, right?
Sure hope the new owner wanted the area dug up. These things often make the person reporting it sorry they did.
Seriously hidden grenades in my new house with the pins rotting? I think I would want to know if I found them all! Yes please dig and send the bill to the previous owner or his relatives.
The previous owner's relatives won't cover the bill....that is if one is ever sent out. But the previous owner will be held accountable as this was an endangerment to people in the area. Especially if the new homeowner has kids.
Didn't I just see that joke. Spread some gernades around and call up the police to dig up the yard at your new home. All ready for landscaping, cops did the job.
The grenades are probably inert. That means all energetic material such as primers, fuses, and the explosive or incendiary materials within them have been removed or otherwise rendered harmless. They make an interesting paper weight, but are rendered safe before selling. Easy to tell by looking at the bottom of the grenade to see if it's hollow. If the grenades in this article haven't been rendered inert, why didn't they tell us, in the story, about the detonation on Sunday... this being Monday, now ?
Go ahead, pull the pins to see if it's real or not.
I didn't realize grenades had "ammunition" - 'cause they don't!
Look at sentence, do you really expect a sensible statement from an illiterate writer.
It was not immediately clear how old the grenades were, of if the ammunition inside was still live.
I have very low expectations for NBC "journalists" when it comes to spelling, grammar, or even simple arithmetic. But they might get content, or word meaning correct from time to time.
Actually, there are many variants of hand grenades that do have "ammunition" within in them. Fragmentation grenades are lethal due to the spread of its fragmented shell upon detonation. Though, other types of grenades may deploy many small pieces of internal ammunition upon detonation. So depending on which type of grenade was found, which the article does not specify, there could have very well been ammunition within it. A little bit of self-research and you could have avoided this all together.
Perhaps ammunition was not the best word choice, but it is in context.
ammunition---2. the means of igniting or exploding such material, as primers, fuzes, and gunpowder.
I'll bet the last owner or renter was either kicked out or foreclosed on and got pissed off. You don't try and get rid of explosives in a fire pit. I hope they catch the stupid idiot who is responsible.
1: the pins do not trigger the grenades to blow up. that is what the fuse is for.
2: Grenades do not contain "ammunition". they contain explosives.
Do a little research before writing your next article please.
Probably inert,like the above poster noted,in post 4.
It makes a good scary story for the lemmings,like the inert launcher tubes at the gun buy back.
Probably a souvenir from one of the recent wars. In the 60's and 70's Gi's brought home all sorts of trinkets like RPG rounds, grenades, .45's and of course the ears.
Heavens! Can someone please propose a ban on these assault grenades full of assault ammunition? Think of the children.
P.S. There is no "ammunition" in a hand grenade. Is there no editorial sanity left around here?
Impossible. Hand grenades are illegal!
Obviously, we need to persecute the fire pit to the full extent of the law!
No way. According to the second amendment, I need them for self-protection. They are as harmless as guns.
A grenade is just a tool neither good or bad. Someday when a horde of bad guys may kicks in your front door. You'll want your hand grenades then now won't you. (sarcasm) These grenades may be inert. But if they are why would the bomb squad have a to blow them up.
Nobody suggested banning fire pits yet?
You guys are slipping.
after i die, anyone digging in what is currently my property would have real fun. ----- i'm pushing 70, but i've been collecting weapons since the mid-60's. ------- however, i buried things in air-tight, watertight containers.
Hand grenades don't kill. PEOPLE with hand grenades kill.
When a suicide bomber blows him/her self up in a crowded market, is it "bomb detonates itself in crowded market" or "suicide bomber detonated explosive vest in crowded market"?
Depends if he said pull my finger first or not?
At least the author said (And meant OR if) "of if the ammunition inside was still live" instead of exaggerating to the sheaple and saying anyone can get grenades like gum from a gumball machine...
Kind of like the rocket launchers taken at the police buy back program - The launchers were already used and could not be reloaded; you can even buy a kit of parts off a launcher which I assume is easier to ship without the tube and then just weld the parts to a pipe for a neat static display.
Moo
Ignorance is Rampant Today.
Stupid is tied for a Close Second.
There's no ammunition in a frag, just Composition B and a large diameter spring with hundreds of notches in it (unless your frag is one of the old pineapples that went out of service after the Korean War). You can unscrew and remove the fuse assembly; once the fuse is gone, you can light the Comp B with a cigarette end and burn it out. I wouldn't want to go reefing on an assembly rusted into place the way these found grenades probably are, however.
Makes for good C ration heating.
Send them as a gift to Feinstein.
you just got to love calif....
Fire in the hole!
I hope it wasn't a "holy" hand grenade. Those things come with some pretty specific instruction for how to use them in general, but disarming may have a few extra steps....
<tongue removed from cheek>
Probably some old demilled grenades, you can buy them for a few bucks on the internet. They are about as dangerous as a paperweight, which is what quite a few people use them for. Probably some idiots idea of a joke, and of course the LAPD is going to burn thousands of taxpayer dollars using real explosives to detonate a lump of metal. Nice.
Grenades? Hey, better than Match Light! Just don't eat the shrapnel.
They can not procreate. Men/women in prison can not procreate. If enough keeps PC we humans are history. LOL. I am a taco man.