Or whose bush you're in.
Stash of 100 hand grenades found in Mansfield woods
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Most likely old training grenades rather than a box of L109s
Interesting - when I was a kid they'd still be digging up the occasional stash from local units/home guard type stuff and it would usually be quantities of like 20, etc. possibly some got used for training or were appropriated or divided up between stashes, etc. though not sure how accurate those numbers were could have been 24 and reported at 20 or 25, etc. in the local news.
Been awhile since I've seen anything like this but used to happen a bit 30-40 years back around here - I remember at one point there was a semi-buried brick pillbox type structure deep in some bushes a lot of kids used to hang out around to smoke and do drugs, etc. when a developer eventually started clearing the site a load of unexploded, unstable, ordnance was found nearby.
EDIT: IIRC the building itself was cold-war era built on the site of a former WW2 pillbox/bunker.
someone in the comments says it was a training ground during ww1 so they are probably old.
We discovered loads of ww2 structures as teenagers where I lived.
all part of an airfield, pill boxes, artificial hills with bunkers inside etc.
there was a big bunker there we never discovered as well that I've seen on youtube, seems it was an old air command bunker.
the place was an active RR airfield(hucknall) and engine testing site though so had patrols driving around it and we had to avoid them to reach the old structures.
all of them had all the old furniture still inside, mostly just the metal frames left though and broken old radio gear. (early 90s)
I think there were even old gas masks rotting away
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Beside my old house (and somewhat overlapping with it) there was land where a hospital used for treating/isolating smallpox patients was in WW1 for a long time there was a order forbidding digging up the land just in case. Then just before we moved apparently commercial interests were more important than health and safety and they dug it all up to put a sewer through.
i lived on the welsh coast and without saying where its not uncommon for the tide to uncover munitions stashed from ww2. bomb squad turn up, they block the beach and blow them up. they burried a lot of kit after the war all over the uk
The stories says "about 100" or "over 100". So it could be 8 crates of 12 each. Or 9 or 10 crates. Or any amount, really. "Over 100!" makes for attention-grabbing stories. It might have been 12 and some empty boxes. If the story isn't true, a correction can be published in small type at the bottom of page 36 later.
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How did they count 100 if they were so dangerous they needed to be demolitioned ?
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I wouldn't be going to Mansfield anytime soon then, sounds like its all going off.
A friends parents apparently found what appears to be a live grenade from WW2 in a house that belonged to a friend of the family when they helped clear it after the friend died.
From what my friend said they took one look at it and called the police, who then took one look at it and called the army.
From what my friend said they took one look at it and called the police, who then took one look at it and called the army.
When clearing out my aunt’s flat I found a large quantity of 50 year old fireworks. That occasioned a call to the bomb squad who told me to just chuck them. I also found a bottle of similar vintage labelled heroin with a large quantity inside. My grandmother had been a doctor from the 1900s until the 1950s. The ensuing conversation with the police was interesting. 
It's hard for me not to think this being because of eggs.
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Was hoping for a lot more escalation tbh. 8/10, great beginning and middle; left me hanging on desperate to know who the army called etc etc.