Stash of 100 hand grenades found in Mansfield woods

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https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/police-statement-100-hand-grenades-5477215

Pretty alarming headline and there's not much detail to it but I can't imagine they are historical ones that have been discarded, who has 100 hand grenades?

Hopefully they are inert training ones that have been dumped, otherwise the mind boggles as to what reason there would be to stash a 100 grenades in a wood.

I'm also unsure how that isn't national news.

 

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Article doesn't say how old they were. From the stories my grandad told me from when he was in the home guard they could be from the second world war.

Really, would be pretty incredible to think they'd been buried for the best part of 80years

 

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What's your theory?

I'm not really sure I have one to be honest, when I say incredible I don't mean unbelievable, I simply mean it's surprising that they weren't on a UXO map (we have them for a lot of WW2 bomb drops etc) and or not been discovered before.

I guess there's always a chance, albeit small that it's something more serious.

 

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oh is that where i left those.

it's fine, i have a few other stashed, hamsters love stashes.

Surely you mean Stielhandgranate?

 

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By coincidence they've fished an exploded WW2 bomb out the Trent as well today and had to shut some roads / bridge.