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OT: 3-year-old finds live hand grenade during Easter egg hunt

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13 months ago

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The device was on the side of a busy road next to the field where families were conducting their Easter ritual in Holford, Somerset.
According to reports in the British press, the boy was actually standing on the device when an adult spotted him.
"We were beginning to count up the eggs at the end of the hunt and I saw a boy of three standing on an object. 'It was brown and about four inches high. It looked like an Easter egg, but it was a hand grenade," Stuart Moffatt told the Daily Mail. "I was shocked. The boy who was standing on it thought it was a rock."

British Boy Finds Live Hand Grenade on Easter Egg Hunt - Yahoo! News

From Yahoo! News: A 3-year-old British boy on an Easter egg hunt Saturday morning discovered a live hand grenade. The device was on the side of a busy road next to the field where families were conducting their Easter ritual in Holford, Somerset. According to reports in the...
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13 months ago

Parents were mortarfied.
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13 months ago

that could have been an explosive situation.
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13 months ago

That situation could have really gone to hell in a hand-grenade basket.

This post was edited by Martin Spartan on 4/10/2012 at 5:42 AM
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EdMartin'sLoan said...
Parents were mortarfied.

Lock it. We're done here.
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13 months ago

Someone is rocking martyrdom in the perk 3 slot. NOOB! COME ON BRAH!

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13 months ago

I would imagine that your child being exploded by a hand grenade on an easter egg hunt would be pretty surprising.
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This one needs some more one liners...
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13 months ago

Is that breaking any local ordnance?
Vim -- noun: robust energy and enthusiasm : VITALITY
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"You'll be all in clover and when they look you over,
I'll give the loudest bellow with the easter grenade. "
My apologies to Erving Berlin

This post was edited by EdMartinsLoan on 4/10/2012 at 1:08 PM
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The hunt organizers were scrambling for an eggsplanation.
--- --- "If you want to be the Man, then you have got to BE the Man." -- CA Sparty's Dad
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boozhoo said...
that could have been an explosive situation.

A eggplosion?
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that story is overblown
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Spartan8Ball said...
Someone is rocking martyrdom in the perk 3 slot. NOOB!

Martyrdom is a deathstreak not a perk
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419Spartan08 said...
Martyrdom is a deathstreak not a perk

COD4 (The best COD title to date) it was a perk.
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Lunchables said...

Made me .
Yeah, quite the , isn't it?
Well, whatever floats yer boat, I guess....
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Once they saw their little darling in danger, his parents were there in a flash -- bang, he was saved.
"Leave the gun.....take the cannoli" "It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel."
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--- --- "If you want to be the Man, then you have got to BE the Man." -- CA Sparty's Dad
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posting so I can find this and give everyone the +1 they deserve tomorrow
Go Bears, Blackhawks, White Sox, and Pioneers. Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand
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Somebunny is in big trouble over this incident.
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13 months ago

The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?

Play
Monty Python-Holy Hand Grenade

"...and the breakfast cereals..."
http://www.youtube.com/v/xOrgLj9lOwk
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