Three die playing catch with grenade

[itsbob]

<img src="http://www.adrax.com/watsons/lbombt.jpg">

if one of our kids found this would they play with it??

Remember almost EXACTLY the same size as a baseball

<img src="http://www.aeronautics.ru/clusterbombdetonation01.jpg">

And here's a little toy detonating!

 

[Bruzilla]

During my first deployment to Sicily we would be medivac'ing about one person a month to Naples, mostly kids who would be out digging around in the dirt and find some WWII munitions that would go off.

I would agree with the "toy" being a bomblet as all grenades that I know of ignite with a delayed fuze that emits a good bit of smoke before the thing explodes, and most people know that a ball that starts smoking probably isn't a ball. Of course, there are exceptions like Max Cleland who says he got blown up when he dropped a grenade when getting in a helicopter (while drunk) and didn't realize it was armed. You gotta be pretty blitzed to not recognize an armed grenade that's smoking like a chimney.