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Grenade Found In Busy Intersection
February 22, 2012
What appeared to be a rusty grenade was found Wednesday morning lying in a busy Atmore intersection, tying up traffic for about an hour as officials decided their next move.
The grenade was found in the intersection of Highway 31 and Trammell Street, prompting Atmore Police to direct traffic around the area. After consultation with members of Atmore’s National Guard unit, officials determined the object was likely just a practice grenade.
A bomb squad was notified. After a phone consultation with experts, authorities decided it was just a harmless dummy grenade. Atmore Police Chief Jason Dean then picked up the dummy grenade from the intersection, placed it in a box and transported it away.
Officials are still working to determine just how the dummy grenade ended up in the intersection.
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5 Responses to “Grenade Found In Busy Intersection”
A GRENADE in Atmore is not a usual thing! I, for one, am glad that they were cautious about the entire situation. If something bad had happened, everyone would be criticizing them for how they weren’t cautious enough.
“That was just silly. It is very easy to tell if it is a dummy and if it isn’t very easy to see if it has been “thrown”/placed with intent to explode it or simply dropped. A two minute fix.”
Perhaps a few years ago such a this type of thing would have been handled very differently. However, in today’s world emergency responders are REQUIRED to handle these type of situations with the utmost caution and with strict training procedures. And no, it’s not always “easy to see” if something has been intentionally placed, etc. I have seen examples of people, particularly those of the home-grown terrorist variety, placing devices to appear to be dropped that were actually a booby-trap. A lot of people have been killed or maimed by acting too quickly (a “two minute fix” as you call it). Laugh all you want at the silly emergency responders, but to err on the side of caution is never really an error.
That was just silly. It is very easy to tell if it is a dummy and if it isn’t very easy to see if it has been “thrown”/placed with intent to explode it or simply dropped. A two minute fix.
HEY….something exciting in Atmore…they stopped all the trains from coming thru too ..Wow…save that thing for hurricane season…maybe it can stop one of those for us…anybody out there want to take the credit for loosing a grenade ??
bruno mars may have dropped it……..;-)