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<p>[QUOTE="Mill Cove Treasures, post: 772160, member: 60"]Greg, your story reminded me of my neighbor and a co-worker. </p><p><br /></p><p>My neighbor does clean outs. Sometimes he will bring me things to research. One item, turned out to be a Japanese grenade from WWII. He had already pulled the top off before he brought it to me. Luckily, the stuff that made it go "boom" had already been removed. I told him to never do that again. Don't open anything that might be military or looks lethal until it is identified! </p><p><br /></p><p>Many years ago, my co-worker was in the reserves and, every summer he spent two weeks training and playing military games on one of the bases near Bev's home. They were doing something with one of those "practice bombs", however, someone screwed up and used a real bomb. He was lucky to be alive but ended up with permanent injuries and lost his sight in one eye. An investigation was launched but I never heard the results.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mill Cove Treasures, post: 772160, member: 60"]Greg, your story reminded me of my neighbor and a co-worker. My neighbor does clean outs. Sometimes he will bring me things to research. One item, turned out to be a Japanese grenade from WWII. He had already pulled the top off before he brought it to me. Luckily, the stuff that made it go "boom" had already been removed. I told him to never do that again. Don't open anything that might be military or looks lethal until it is identified! Many years ago, my co-worker was in the reserves and, every summer he spent two weeks training and playing military games on one of the bases near Bev's home. They were doing something with one of those "practice bombs", however, someone screwed up and used a real bomb. He was lucky to be alive but ended up with permanent injuries and lost his sight in one eye. An investigation was launched but I never heard the results.[/QUOTE]
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