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April 19th, 2007 at 12:12 am

When a potato isn’t just a potato

A woman who had shopped in a local market in a town near Naples got quite a surprise when she opened the sack of potatoes that she’d purchased. She took out the potatoes to wash and peel them and discovered that one of the potatoes was really a hand grenade that had apparently been left over from World War II.

Olga Mauriello had put the potatoes in a pot of water and had begun to peel them when she found the explosive which was heavily covered in dirt. Alarmed, she called her neighbors who in turn called the police.

The police ended up detonating the grenade the next day in a nearby park. The grenade was believed to have traveled with the potatoes from France.







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    MyAvatars 0.2

    Who’d have thought it would have been stable enough to make that trip!! how many generations will be finding these things?

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    birdwoman (1 comments.) on April 19th, 2007
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    MyAvatars 0.2

    Yikes! Good thing she didn’t try to bake that thing.

    Snuzulooz (1 comments.) on April 19th, 2007
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    MyAvatars 0.2

    How about those police detonating it in a nearby park? That doesn’t sound safe…lol

    Did this theme just change? I swear I was here the other day and it wasn’t this one.

    Jimi (2 comments.) on April 20th, 2007
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    MyAvatars 0.2

    Holy crap!

    Colleen (2 comments.) on April 20th, 2007
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    MyAvatars 0.2

    Oh my, that is scary! I would hope a grenade would be sorted out by I guess not!

    Cynthia Blue (4 comments.) on April 20th, 2007
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    MyAvatars 0.2

    Thats one way to make mashed potato.

    scarlet (11 comments.) on April 20th, 2007
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    MyAvatars 0.2

    This is why I don’t cook. LOL

    Lisa (4 comments.) on April 23rd, 2007

 



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