Sit, Ubu, Sit. Good Dog.
By Wyatt Earp | June 9, 2009
Be careful when you play fetch with your dog. The results could blow you away.
BERLIN – A dog playing fetch in Germany has found and delivered to its owner a U.S. hand grenade from World War II. Police in the western town of Erkrath said Monday they were called by the dog’s 40-year-old owner who stopped walking her pooch when she recognized the “rusty” object it was carrying was a weapon. Police summoned a munitions expert Sunday to identify and defuse the grenade. ()
Interestingly enough, the dog threw the grenade over the Polish border before barking “Deutschland über alles.”
Topics: Snarkasm | 5 Comments »
June 9th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
hah! shoulda tossed it over the western border to France, though.
June 10th, 2009 at 7:34 am
The Holy Hand grenade of Antioch..For use against those godless cats!
June 10th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Good one Wyatt!
June 10th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Smite – And watch the frogs scatter.
Jon – They really have no soul, you know.
June 10th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
All snark aside, there’s a lot of world war 1 ordnance that pops up in France every year, so I’m not surprised that ww2 ordnance pops up in Germany.
As an aside didn’t some Civil War collector blow himself up a while back after digging up a cannonball?
Lesson to be learned: unexploded ordnance is fucking dangerous.
Mess with it yourself at your peril.