World of the Bizarre

Live grenade found in factory potato cargo

By T.K. Randall
February 3, 2019 ·  7 comments

Luckily the grenade was spotted before it was processed. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 Santeri Viinamaki The grenade, which was found at the Calbee plant in a shipment from France, was likely to have been accidentally harvested at the same time as the potato crop.

"If it was covered in mud, the grenade was likely to have been left behind, dropped by soldiers there during the war, or left there after it was thrown," said military historian Dave Macri.

"The ditch was then filled up and used as a growing field, and the explosive was tossed into the mix of harvested potatoes... and sent to Hong Kong."Fortunately nobody was injured and bomb disposal experts quickly neutralized the grenade by destroying it in a controlled explosion.

"The grenade was in an unstable condition because it had been previously discharged but failed to detonate," said Superintendent Wilfred Wong Ho-hon.

A German First World War hand grenade was found in a shipment of French potatoes imported for a Hong Kong crisp factory https://t.co/lFy4Rnf8Mv

— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 3, 2019

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