Grenade found in bag of potatoes

Olga Mauriello, 74, of Naples, Italy, washed off a potato from a sack she’d just purchased and discovered that the spud was actually an active hand grenade. A bomb squad was called in and the grenade safely detonated. From Reuters:

Police said the pine cone-shaped grenade, which had no pin and was still active, was the same type used by U.S. soldiers in Europe in World War Two. Authorities believe the mix-up happened at a farm in France, where the grenade was plucked from the ground along with potatoes…

“If I hadn’t felt its weight, I wouldn’t even have realised that it was a bomb,” she said.