Hand Grenade Found in Northeast Neb. Garbage Truck

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CREIGHTON, Neb.
Posted: 7:49 PM Jan 1, 2009
Last Updated: 7:49 PM Jan 1, 2009
Reporter: Associated Press

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The Nebraska State Patrol has destroyed a World War II-era hand grenade found in the northeast Nebraska town of Creighton.

Creighton officials say a garbage service worker found the grenade in the back of a garbage truck Wednesday afternoon.

The bomb squad was called in, and members responded from Grand Island.

They took it to a Creighton gun range and blew it up with their own explosives.

The authorities are trying to find out how the grenade ended up in the truck and who's responsible.

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Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 2, 2009 at 07:45 AM
Maybe it was an inert grenade; a lot of those had the powder taken out of them and had the fuse in the head burned out, basically just paperweights. If you wanted to get rid of a live one, you could have just chucked it out into a lake, or called the police and say you just found one.

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