A 3-year-old in Hartline, Washington, made a dangerous discovery in his family's front yard on Monday evening, the Grant County Sheriff's Office reports: a World War II-era grenade. After the boy brought the device inside to show his parents, they called 911 just before 7pm, KIRO 7 reports. Deputies responded to the home and quickly sought help from the Washington State Patrol bomb squad. Once on the scene, bomb technicians confirmed the grenade was still live. The squad removed the device from the house and transported it to a rural area north of Hartline, where it was safely destroyed.
The sheriff's office said the boy "found what appears to be a World War Two vintage fragmentation grenade," the Spokesman-Review reports. It had clearly been exposed to the elements for a significant period, the sheriff's office said, but authorities aren't sure how long it had been in the yard or how it came to be there.
"What we've seen in the past is that grandpa goes to fight in the war, in World War II, and brings some souvenirs back, puts them in the house and no one sees them until grandpa passes and they have to go through grandpa's house and that's where a lot of grenades and other devices that we encounter here in Grant County," sheriff's office spokesman Kyle Foreman said, per MyNorthwest.com. "Where this one came from, how long it's been there, nobody knows." Foreman has advice for anybody who makes a similar find in or around their home: "Leave it alone. Keep people away from it. Call 911, let the professionals come out and assess it and take care of that problem."
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