"It's more stable than a Samsung phone"

[EugW]

Villager in China uses grenade to crack open walnuts for 25 years

BEIJING - A hand grenade was used to crack walnuts for 25 years by a villager in China who had no idea what he was using until he saw a photo of a grenade on a leaflet handed out by local police. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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BEIJING - A hand grenade was used to crack walnuts for 25 years by a villager in China who had no idea what he was using until he saw a photo of a grenade on a leaflet handed out by local police.

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People have been commenting on social media site Weibo about the man's lucky escape.

One user wrote: "Why would a friend gift him a bomb?"

Another said: "It's more stable than a Samsung phone."

 

[firedept]

Amazing they are still alive.

 

[mtneer]

Ha! I imagined he was tossing a live grenade into a pile of walnuts to crack them open!

 

[EugW]

There is a suggestion it may have been an inert training grenade, but usually those are labelled as such, and that one didn't have any such labelling. So the police probably would have just blown it up regardless just to be sure.