WWII grenade explodes in stove

[+OverSword]

What are the odds???

From the article:

Austrian police investigating a grenade blast were less puzzled by the explosion and more by where it took place — inside a wood stove that appeared to contain nothing but firewood.

The woman who owned the wood burner also had no clue at first. After all, she only put firewood inside.

Or so she thought.

Police spokeswoman Petra Datscher said Monday a World War II grenade apparently landed on a tree during fighting. It was then enveloped by wood growing around it to the point that it was invisible when the tree was chopped down for firewood and sold to the supermarket where the unidentified 22-year-old woman bought it.

The blast Sunday in the lakeside town of Gmunden shattered the stove's glass panel, but the sturdy wrought-iron stove prevented injuries.

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[:PsYKoTiC:BeHAvIoR:]

That's crazy! Imagine if the lumberjack would have hit that grenade with his chainsaw? O_o'

[JinxDeMynx]

That's the last time I ever buy a tree!

[freetoroam]

Well, this is a good advert for wrought-iron. Yes, I would say the lumberjack had a lucky escape there......must say the odds of this happening from the cutting the tree down to the chopping it up for wood, to bagging it up and then putting it in the stove without the grenade being spotted or going off are slim...but weirder things have happened.

Hope it was a freak event and not attempted murder.

Edited December 9, 2014 by freetoroam

[Lilly]

Damn...that's really something...and not a good something,

Just thought...OverSword, you wouldn't need to crush heads with this scenario...they'd be blown clean off!

Edited December 9, 2014 by Lilly
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[Patient Zero]

What are the odds?

Apparently 1 in a kazillion since i've never heard of anything like that before.

Good find dude!

[xYlvax]

I'm glad she wasn't hurt.

She sure has an experience to talk about now though.

[Karasu]

I doubt that another story this explosive will come along.

[theotherguy]

I doubt that another story this explosive will come along.

Don't start--this thread will blow up with bad puns.

[freetoroam]

TRUE:

my mother in law found an ww11 bomb in her garden, it was in the papers and on the news.....but the bomb did not go off.

oops, sorry, nearly forgot to add:

thank goodness it did not go off.

[pallidin]

The bad thing, she didn't know, was that Santa Claus was coming down the chimney of that small, stand-alone wood stove at the time.

NO PRESENTS FOR YOU.