Woman finds live grenade cleaning out deceased father's home in Knowlton, Que
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A woman cleaning out her deceased father's home in the Quebec town of Knowlton made a bombshell discovery on Friday – she found a live grenade.
A woman cleaning out her deceased father's home in the Quebec town of Knowlton made a bombshell discovery on Friday – she found a live grenade.
Kedrin Simms Brachman said she was going through the Eastern Townships home when she found it in a toolbox.
"We went into his tool room, which was always, like, nobody ever went into his tool room. That was a sacred place," she said. I was looking for something, and then I opened up the toolbox, and there was a grenade."
Simms Brachman said she wasn't immediately sure what the best course of action was and called her stepsister in from another room.
"I'm like, what do we do with it? Do we pick it up? Do we drive it to the police? You know, how do we take care of it?" she said. "I don't want to touch this thing. It's a grenade."
They didn't touch it – instead, they called the provincial police (Surete du Quebec) non-emergency line and reported their finding. They were immediately transferred to the emergency line.
"They said, 'Okay, are you guys not touching it?' I said, 'No, we're not touching it. We don't want anything to do with it. Please come get it,'" she recalled.
