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Crap. There are some days when you think you can't possibly get to it all, all the news happening in Norman, that is.
In a case of all's well that ends well, police took two grenades into custody after the owner of a rent house on E. Frank Street spotted them under the house. The guy was cleaning up the place for the next renter, when he spotted these military-issue devices.
According to police, whoever owned these grenades took steps to turn them into ready-made explosive devices, lethal enough potentially to do as much damage as a pipe bomb. Given that there were two of them ...
Alas, our fair landlord takes these puppies and tosses them in the back of his pickup and DRIVES them to the police station. In a potentially Darwin Award-worthy performance, the landlord walks into the police station and informs those who protect and serve that there are a couple of grenades outside.
Talk about a "how-do-you-do."
Long story short, the Norman bomb squad was called out, and they secured the devices and returned to the rent house to look for more. That renter was forthcoming, allowing officers to look inside his new house on East Eufaula Street. Police are pretty sure this guy (or gal, I suppose) had nothing to do with anything.
However, it does make me wonder just how wise it is that grenades, even "training grenades," are available commercially. Sorry, and forgive me if I'm not up to speed on the latest sportsman techniques, but are grenades now used for hunting?
I'm being facetious.
But I ask you, what might your landlord find under your house?
Links:
Norman Transcript
NewsOK.com
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