Topic: Now these stupid people will breed.

[Pugnate]

Man kept grenades on mantelpiece

A Dutchman used old Second World War hand grenades as ornaments in his house - without realising they were dangerous.

Heimen van der Wal, from Makkum, kept the grenades on his mantelpiece for decades after discovering them in woods near Arnhem as a child.

"We though they were harmless," his wife Marjan told the Antwerp Gazette. "Our children have even played with them."

Mr van der Wal moved the grenades to a barn a few years ago. Last week, he showed them to a friend who immediately realised the danger.

"He was shocked and told us to alert the army's bomb disposal unit, because the grenades were highly explosive," he said.

An army spokesman said the family had been very lucky. One of the pins of the antique grenades was so rusty, any sudden movement could have caused an explosion.

[Cobra951]

Darwin didn't work that time, damn it.  There goes the gene pool.

[Quemaqua]

Lord.  That's a souvenir one should leave behind.  I do have some old ammunition lying around somewhere, though.  A bullet from an old machine gun.

[Ghandi]

"Our children have even played with them."

Good lord. I can see it now: "Here kids, play with these 60-year-old hand grenades! It'll be fun!"

The sad thing relating to the topic heading is that these people have already bred.

[Pugnate]

Yea I was thinking that as I hit post, and was considering of adding a 'further' to breed, but was too lazy. Besides I had a few other quirky news items still to go heh.

[idolminds]

I remember a story a while back where people were throwing around some old grenades at a party for fun and one went off.

[Antares]

I thought of that as soon as I read this story idol.

Somewhere in some former Eastern Bloc country if I remember correctly.