Bomb disposal experts were called to a nursing home after a man took a hand grenade that he found in a shed there.
Police were alerted to the explosive after a member of staff at Ynysddu Care Home, in Mount Pleasant, Ynysddu, called them.
It is understood that a handyman working at the home had found the grenade while doing work nearby.
He had put it in his car and drove to the home to ask staff members what they thought it could be.
After police were called, officers set up a cordon around the car and waited for bomb disposal experts to arrive.
A Gwent Police spokeswoman said: “We received a report at 1.50pm on Tuesday, October 27, saying that there was a type of grenade left in a vehicle parked on Mount Pleasant.
“The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician attended to dispose of it safely.
“The device turned out to be a Second World War style hand-grenade with pin attached but the detonator had been removed.”
I would like to call this man an idiot but I would have probably picked it up and even taken a screwdriver to it in order to see how it worked before realising what it was.
It brought to mind the story my old ‘electrician’s mate’ Bob Davies told me. Bob was an infantry veteran of WWII and immediately saw that the object he had found whilst out walking was a Mills grenade. He could also see that it was a practise bomb and was harmless.
He then took it to Caerffili police station and was highly amused at the uproar and panic caused when he handed it in at the desk!
Haha, I bet the old beggar knew exactly what he was doing. The opportunity for a pub story was obviously to much of a temptation.