"A World War II grenade sucked up by contractors cleaning out a Mosgiel sewage drain on Tuesday morning was missing its detonator, say police. The Mills-type grenade contained explosives but did not have the arm and pin which would have set it off.

"The chances of it exploding were pretty slim," said Senior Sergeant Bruce Ross of Dunedin police.

A section of Mosgiel, west of Dunedin, was cordoned off about 10.30am when contractors sucked up something which blocked their vacuum tube.

"We were sucking out the sewerage and the hose blocked up, which happens all the time," Delta drainage technician Marc Layne told the Southland Times."

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Drain contractors suck up WWII grenade in Mosgiel | NATIONAL News

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Jon

Certainly some empty head who wanted to get rid of it without reporting it.

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Well that's a good way to fix a clog!


Although I think Draino would do the trick

Without a detonator it was not likely to eplode though, I suspect it was actually empty but then the article wouldn't have been so "interesting". I mean why on earth would someone bother to take risks and defuse such a grenade and then leave some powder in it and throw it away? I think someone just found it , did not know if it was dangerous or not and got rid of it (which by the way was a stupid thing to do)

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