4Chan Poster avoids getting a Darwin Award… But not from lack of trying

[ieoeja]

11. I took mine home to Dad. But then I was only around 12.

I was actually out playing Army with my older brother and his friend. We stopped at a spot where people had been doing open dumping in an old strip mine. I saw the grenade, picked it up, grabbed the pin to pull it and toss at the other two then ... "hey, guys, they wouldn't make a toy grenade out of metal, would they?"

Came that close to killing myself or those two. Or, it might have been a dud. They never tested it. They just put it in with a batch of stuff to be blown up (see "at weapons manufacturing plant" below).

So we carried it home instead. Walked into the kitchen and sat it down on the kitchen table in front of my Dad (ex-Marine and ex-firefighter at a weapons manufacturing plant). He grabbed it and ran outside. Locked us in the house and called the nearby naval base. They wrapped it in duct tape and shoved it in a bomb-resistant box. Promised they would send me a dud. They never did.

Hey, Navy, you owe me a fucking hand grenade.