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O/T Interesting catch..............

Goose

Goose

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Feller threw a fishing line into Wagon Train Lake east of Hickman, NE. When it snagged on something, he reeled it in.

It was a live hand grenade. Maybe someone wanted to stun some fish and forgot to pull the pin.

(He turned it over to the law, and it was detonated safely).
 
My dad had some blasting caps from the 1930s in his stash. The county engineer was a friend and former army munitions man, he took care of them for me.
 
We just got back from vacation on Martha's Vineyard -

there are several beaches there with warning signs for possible live munitions.

The beaches were used for bombing practice back in WWII and apparently they're still finding unexploded bombs to this day.

... kinda makes you want to tread lightly on the beach.
 
Everyone has their favorite fish tale, but this one will be hard to beat.

Authorities say a Lincoln man caught a grenade Thursday night. He told Lancaster County Sheriff Deputies he was fishing at Area One of Wagon Train Lake when he thought he snagged his line.

As he reeled in he noticed his hook snagged on a hand grenade. He called 9-11 and deputies confirmed it was a grenade and called in the State Patrol bomb squad.

Officials evacuated the area and the bomb squad blew up the grenade.
Authorities believe it was live and had the pin still attached. They have no idea how it got there or how long it had been in the lake.

No one was injured. Authorities think the grenade was from the Vietnam era.
 
(quoted from post at 14:00:40 08/04/12) Everyone has their favorite fish tale, but this one will be hard to beat.

Authorities say a Lincoln man caught a grenade Thursday night. He told Lancaster County Sheriff Deputies he was fishing at Area One of Wagon Train Lake when he thought he snagged his line.

As he reeled in he noticed his hook snagged on a hand grenade. He called 9-11 and deputies confirmed it was a grenade and called in the State Patrol bomb squad.

Officials evacuated the area and the bomb squad blew up the grenade.
Authorities believe it was live and had the pin still attached. They have no idea how it got there or how long it had been in the lake.

No one was injured. Authorities think the grenade was from the Vietnam era.
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What state?
 
A couple of years ago the lake just north of here was very low because of a drought. They found all kinds of stuff on the dry lake bed, including a least one grenade.
 
The attached pin does not make it live, but it would be sensible to assume it was.Nobody is going to dismantle it to look for a detonator.
 
Reminds me of a guy who always caught the largest fish every time he went out and always limited out. Game warden followed him one day and observed him lighting a stick of dynamite and throwing it in, then going around collecting fish floating to the surface. He confronted him, allowing he was the law, that the old boy was fishing illegally, without explosive permits, possessing too many fish, and a myriad of other violations. The old boy reached down into his tackle box, grabbed another stick of dynamite, lit it and handed it to the warden. He then asked him if he was just gonna sit there and discuss the finer points of the law or fish....
 
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