Apartment Resident Finds Live Grenade in Bag
A live hand grenade was found by a resident in the parking lot of an apartment complex Tuesday night, according to Los Angeles police.
Police said they had not determined who put the weapon there.
The unidentified resident was tossing away refuse that had collected along the rear wall of her apartment complex at 6640 Woodley Ave. when she threw a particularly heavy plastic grocery bag, police said.
“She said: ‘Wow, that was heavy,’ ” said Sgt. William McAllister of LAPD’s Van Nuys Division. “Then she went over and picked it up and reexamined it and it looked like a grenade.”
Police said the woman was lucky the device did not explode.
The grenade, described as a modern spherical type rather than the better-known pineapple-shaped bombs, was wrapped in a plastic supermarket bag, McAllister said.
She called the police, who sent bomb squad officers to the residence. Officials evacuated about 60 residents from nearby apartments and detonated the device.
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