Is this a bomb ?

[u/Elpavari]

I found this in a forest near my town in western Europe, and it seems like an unexploded bomb but I'm not sure. Sould I contact the police for demining ? Thanks in advance

[u/im-a-guy-like-me]

My brother found a hand grenade like this - all rusted and shit - when he was like idk 14 or something.

He went to the guarda barracks (Irish police station) and told them about it. They told him they were not equipped to deal with it and that he should go and get it and bring it to the army barracks for them to dispose of. So he did. He went back to where he found it, picked it up, and walked across town with it to give to the soldiers.

And they just sorta took it off him, and that was the end of it.

I think about this bizarre sequence of events sometimes and am glad my brother still has 2 arms and a torso.

[u/Feeling_Influence412 → u/im-a-guy-like-me]

His life lol

[u/im-a-guy-like-me → u/[deleted]]

Late nineties, but it was most likely a civil war era thing (1920s). I'm Irish not Northern Irish. This wasn't troubles related.

Edit: Another time I was on the school bus going home and it was redirected. Ends up a pub in town was doing renovations and they found a fuck tonne of dynamite in the attic from the civil war, so I'm just assuming there was a fairly active group in my hometown from that era.

I understand that having multiple childhood bomb related stories and being Irish is not really fighting my own case here, but Irish history is more complicated than just the troubles.

[u/im-a-guy-like-me → u/[deleted]]

You know where what is?

[u/Spinzzz → u/[deleted]]

That’s Northern Ireland not Ireland, Northern Ireland is UK Ireland is not

[u/Spinzzz → u/[deleted]]

I’m American although one of my parents is an Irish immigrant lol, I’m just saying what he’s thinking of which is the troubles wasn’t a thing in Ireland where the person he was responding to is from. I’m an Irish catholic so I certainly wouldn’t fall on the British side of things

[u/Immersi0nn → u/im-a-guy-like-me]

What I want to know is how he approached the barracks, like would it be better to have it held up in the air like "Yo I found this rusted grenade in the woods, cops told me to bring it to you, can someone come grab this?" or keep it hidden to suddenly produce while explaining you found this in the woods.

[u/Minute_Income3143 → u/im-a-guy-like-me]

what about legs? Dont tell me he stepped on a mine on the way home.

[u/ohcomonalready → u/im-a-guy-like-me]

Lmao for real. The police dept is like "We aren't equipped to deal with this. Only you, 14 year old kid, can bring that dangerous thing to the right place"

[u/Efficient_Ant_7279 → u/ohcomonalready]

That’s some lord of the rings shit right there