Residents in Freshwater had a restless night after it was discovered a neighbour’s child had found a grenade on the beach and brought it home with them.
Police were called to Camp Road last night when it was reported that a member of the public had discovered a suspected hand grenade.
Island Echo understands that the device was found by a child on a local beach before being transported home and placed in the garden.
It’s claimed that those living in the area were not evacuated due to the coronavirus crisis.
The Royal Navy Bomb Disposal team from Portsmouth travelled to the Isle of Wight this morning to safely dispose of the hand grenade, which was deemed as being viable.
Blimey this will happen for years to come I expect
Liam, Likely will, rusty bombs, bullets and grenades which have been bashed about against rocks, steeped in corrosive sea water, after falling out of seventy years of rain soaked muddy cliffs which never exploded when brand new, are imo, highly unlikely to do much damage if not messed about with now.
Yet keep up the pretence of children being blown limbless, and then you can justify a well paid salary when disposing of such.
I would have just flushed it a couple of times using the No 2 long flush button.
Perhaps you should learn your local history Dwight
The war Knight sank round the corner of fFeshwater Bay during ww1 any munitions by her could be washed round
Even after this amount of time a grenade could be extremely unstable when dried out
Oh, I am rather good at local history. Many of the Islands beaches were used by the military for war practice. Even the home guard in the last war had access to hand grenades, and my own grandfather had a box of such, which he dropped off of Ryde Pier back in the early 1950s.
People weren’t so timid after years of danger. And although such could be dangerous, I imagine if sunk since WWI the chances of danger would be very diminished. But I guess better safe than sorry in our snowflake world we now inhabit.