Achtung! Eager hund fetches live handgranate

by Stevie Smith - Jun 9 2009, 15:15

When lobbing a stick for your enthusiastic pooch while out on a walk, you generally expect said stick to return tightly secured within the dog’s slavering mouth. Want you don’t generally expect is for man’s best friend to drop a live hand grenade at your feet.

However, that’s exactly what happened to a 40-year-old woman in Germany who was out exercising her dog in the town of Erkrath in the western part of the Neander Valley on Sunday.

Unleashed and eager to please during a game of countryside catch, the scampering dog soon left its owner wide-eyed with shock after delivering a rusty but live U.S. hand grenade to its waiting owner, reports AFP.

Recognising the object as a grenade, which dates from World War II, the woman alerted local police authorities, who promptly cordoned off the location ahead of an explosives expert arriving on-scene and defusing the potentially dangerous device.

While the old grenade may appear to be an unusual find, such explosives and munitions left over from World War II are apparently commonplace in German, with entire streets and neighbourhoods often completely evacuated while devices are safely disposed of.

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