Grenade Found in Private Yard

"A day of landscaping turned into a frightening situation for a man in Thornton when he dug up a live grenade in his backyard. 

Thornton Police had to set up a perimeter around Travis Moore's home on Carrol Court on Wednesday night. The Adams County Bomb Squad responded to the scene and removed the explosive.

Moore says he and his neighbors have no idea who put the grenade in his backyard or why. He and his wife have only lived in the home for about three weeks."

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There's Dynamite in the Desert

"A 26-year-old treasure hunter thought he hit the motherlode when he found a 30- to 40-year-old briefcase in the East Valley desert Wednesday and took it home.

'He takes it home and opens it up and finds papers in there and dynamite,' said Chris Hegstrom, a Maricopa County Sheriff's spokesman. 'It appears to have been from the late 70s and 80s.'"

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More Afghan IED Searches

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As I slowly back away from the action, I weigh the possibilities. Either the route-clearers are so dedicated to their jobs — and to sparing their fellow NATO soldiers from IEDS — that they eagerly embrace the deadly risk that comes from poking at explosives with knives.

Or, they’re simply deranged.

I haven’t yet made up my mind when there’s a disappointed groan. With a final scrape of a bayonet, Pittman and the other NCO have unearthed the metal object that set off the soldier’s detector. It’s not a bomb. It’s a piece of trash long interred in the middle of the dirt path.

The route patrol marches on, confident that actual IEDs await, not far down the road."

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Image Credits: David Axe / Wired