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Hand grenade found in Kanagawa

January 8th, 2009 by James

Kanagawa prefectural police display a grenade they found while searching the house of a yakuza gang member:


The grenade was found in the house of Satoru Hirayama, a leader of a gang linked to the Inagawa-kai. Hirayama, who is already in police custody over a drug-related crime, has told police that somebody gave him the item in question for safekeeping about a year ago and he had no idea it was a hand grenade.

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Comment by Mark
2009-01-08 10:26:57

Yep, he’d absolutely no idea what it was – “Please keep this pineapple safe for me and whatever you do, don’t remove the pin”.

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Comment by dA
2009-01-08 11:00:47

what bull, like he wouldn’t know what a hand grenade is

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Comment by VonSkippy
2009-01-08 13:18:00

Yes, but are the keystone cops sure it’s a REAL hand grenade???

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Comment by Haf
2009-01-08 15:11:14

I just hope they don’t pull the plug to see if it’s real.

In the end, only Darwinism keeps on living. ;)

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Comment by sheerblade
2009-01-08 14:27:42

I could see how he didn’t know it was a grenade, apart from the obvious baseball shape with a pin, there’s a typo saying “Hand Grenade” in big yellow letters on the side of it, it was obviously a paper weight.

Knowing the Japanese police’s knowledge of this in this matter it really is a paperweight like the ones they sell where the bottom is drilled out and the fuse is inert.

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