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WWII grenade found in Rahoon garden

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  • 11-05-2012 8:25am
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    snubbleste
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    More than 30 families were evacuated from their homes in the city overnight, after a viable World War Two grenade was discovered in the garden of a house.
    The device was found at around 10.30pm at a property in Currach Buí in Rahoon. The army bomb disposal team was called to the scene. The area was made safe after 1.30am. http://www.galwaynews.ie/25754-evacuation-rahoon-following-discovery-grenade

    How on earth did it get there and from where? WWII was 70 years ago. Anyone have any further info in relation to this. Maybe I should go and inspect my garden.


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    Robbo
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    Allied or Axis grenade?


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    kevin65
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    Was it dug up, or was it found lying there?


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    Mrs OBumble
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    kevin65 wrote: »
    Was it dug up, or was it found lying there?

    Indeed - who recognised it, and how did they know it was a grenade?

    Why were they looking in the garden at the time? It's pretty dark at 10:30pm at night at the moment ....


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    buzz11
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    JustMary wrote: »
    Why were they looking in the garden at the time? It's pretty dark at 10:30pm at night at the moment ....

    Front door slams...

    W:howya love, how was the pub?

    M: grand now, fairly quiet just had a quick one on the way home

    W: ah sure thats nice, did ya drop that movie back to xtravision on the way to work?

    M: I did, did ya sort that grenade in the garden?

    W: jez no, totally forgot.

    M: ahh for f--k sake, whats wrong with ya? do I have to do everything around here? I told ya I wanted to get that cleared out before I cut the grass at the weekend.

    W: sorry luv but today was mental.

    M: I'll have to ring them now and look at the bleen'in time...


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    Rob A. Bank
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    The Holy Hand Grenade of Rahoon ?



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    Dan_Solo
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    No offence here, but if you asked me "guess which Rahoon estate they found a hand grenade in" that'd pretty much be top of my list.


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    Asmodean
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    Evacuating 30 families for one grenade?! That's a bit over the top surely. I could understand if it was a bomb.


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    Sappa
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    That was from the one house,could you imagine if they had to evacuate the entire street!


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    Mrs OBumble
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    Dan_Solo wrote: »
    No offence here, but if you asked me "guess which Rahoon estate they found a hand grenade in" that'd pretty much be top of my list.

    Ahh, yeah, that's kinda what makes me wonder what "hand grenade" really means. ;)


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    kevin65
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    Sappa wrote: »
    That was from the one house,could you imagine if they had to evacuate the entire street!
    :D


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    Pinturicchio
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    As far as I could see there was a maximum of 8-10 houses evacuated.


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    Dan_Solo
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    JustMary wrote: »
    Ahh, yeah, that's kinda what makes me wonder what "hand grenade" really means. ;)
    Ya know, I have no idea what this means.
    Is it a triple or quadruple entendre?


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    scholar007
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    How on earth did it get there and from where? WWII was 70 years ago. Anyone have any further info in relation to this. Maybe I should go and inspect my garden.


    Pineapple?


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    Rob A. Bank
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    How on earth did it get there and from where? WWII was 70 years ago. Anyone have any further info in relation to this. Maybe I should go and inspect my garden.

    You forget... WW2 in Europe had a Western Front, an Eastern Front, a Southern Front (when the Allies invaded Italy) and of course the Rahoon Front !

    ;)


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    emptybladder
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    I can't copy and paste it, but it says on Galway News Facebook page that a guy found it on Spiddal Beach and brought it home to his house in Rahoon


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    germyldon
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    How on earth did it get there and from where? WWII was 70 years ago. Anyone have any further info in relation to this. Maybe I should go and inspect my garden.
    ..I heard it was found on a beach in Spiddal and brought home,prob unwittinglly:)


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    Dan_Solo
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    At least he had the, er, sense, to leave it in the garden and not the play room.


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    scholar007
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    emptybladder wrote: »
    I can't copy and paste it, but it says on Galway News Facebook page that a guy found it on Spiddal Beach and brought it home to his house in Rahoon


    Wonder what he would have done if he found a mine on the beach?


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    Robbo
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    scholar007 wrote: »
    Wonder what he would have done if he found a mine on the beach?
    Keep it in the shed like in Hot Fuzz?


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    Rob A. Bank
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    So now the other questions arise :

    How the hell did a WW2 grenade end up on Spiddal beach ?

    Should the Blue Flag criteria also be testing for "lack of explosives" on the beach?

    ;)


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    scholar007
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    Hey - I've just found something on the beach in Salthill.

    I havent a clue what it is but its 6 foot in length and cylindrical (silverish in colour) with a little propellor and fins on one end and a small nipple like protrusion on the other.

    I think it would look nice in my garden at home - Anyone willing to give me a hand loading it into the car?


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    snubbleste
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    Depends, do you live in Rahoon?

    I think the original story was some lovesick puppy trying to serenade his love-to-be by crooning the popular love ditty Grenade, complete with props..


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    Dan_Solo
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    Didn't some old geezer find a barrel of marijauna and a .45 automatic on Salthill beach years back?
    He went and turned it in.:rolleyes:


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