Workers at the Fair Tide Shellfish plant in New Bedford, Massachusetts are used to fishing up weird stuff.  After all, there’s always something strange to be found in the water, from weird fish to unusual wreckage.  However, the plant uncovered a potentially explosive problem when they fished up a crate of World War II-era grenades.  Now, fishing up grenades isn’t uncommon along the eastern seaboard, but Fair Tide’s nets dredged up 126 live grenades off the coast of Long Island, New York!  Some of them still had their pins in place, waiting to go off!

These aren’t chili pepper grenades, we’re talking about live, dangerous military ordinance.  Once the Navy determined the grenades were still active, the plant was evacuated so the crate could be safely buried in a sand-filled dump truck and taken away for proper explosive disposal.  Mines, on land or in the water, are dangerous no matter how old they might be.  Even a lobster’s WWII-era kabooming condo is a hazard.

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