Feb. 28

ROME - A woman in a town near Naples got an unwelcome surprise when she bought a sack of potatoes at a nearby market, put them into water to peel and discovered one of them was a hand grenade apparently left over from World War II.

Olga Mauriello had put the potatoes in a vat of water and had just begun peeling them Tuesday when she found the explosive, covered in dirt, police said Wednesday.

An alarmed Mauriello, 74, called neighbors, who in turn called police.

Officers detonated the grenade in a park on Wednesday, state police said.

The grenade was believed to have traveled with the potatoes from France, the ANSA news agency reported.

http://news.yahoo.com

Oh geez. I'm glad they detonated the grenade. And no one was seriously hurt.

So it originally came from France?

Its amazing to see how the horrors and scars of WW2 still remain after more then 50 years later :/

That must of been scary....
Theres a beach not too far from where i live where there used to be a WW2 munitions dump. Its right next to the parking lot and houses surround it. But its fenced off and you're not allowed to go there. The land is still owned by the ADF (australian defence force). But still you'd think that they would get bomb disposal in and clean it up.

she was gonna make bangers and mash, GET IT (BANGERS AND MASH)!!! HANDGRENADE AND POTATOS!!!!!! GET IT??? understand? I'LL GET ME COAT!

Whoa .. now thats one hot potato.

AW! I wish I would find explosive fun in my vegetables!

In soviet italianstan, potatoes peel you!


...with a granade...

yummi...

*snickers*

lol

licking to many chemicals i see

How DO you miss that at the plant?