While a grenade may seem like it isn’t live anymore, that could very well not be the case. A California police department said a bomb squad had to be called to its front lobby when a resident showed up with a box of grenades that turned out to be live.
The Pleasanton Police Department wrote on Facebook that a citizen arrived at the front lobby of its police headquarters to turn over three grenades he found in his garage. At the time, he assumed they were inert but it turned out that wasn’t the case at all.
“Unbeknownst to him, the grenades were live,” the post said.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office’s Bomb Squad was called to the station and took the grenades off to be destroyed. It was not clear exactly how the resident discovered the explosives and how they came to be stored in the resident’s garage.
Police urged anyone who makes a similar discovery in the future to not bring the explosives to the police station. Instead, it’s important to leave the devices as is and report to the police about the situation.
“If you find any potentially dangerous explosives, please do not touch them,” the post said.