Imported ‘spud’ was not a dud
From Times Wire Reports
A woman in a town near Naples, Italy, bought a sack of potatoes, put them into water to peel and discovered a dirt-covered hand grenade among them.
The explosive found by Olga Mauriello, 74, apparently was left over from World War II and was believed to have traveled with the potatoes from France, ANSA news agency reported.
An alarmed Mauriello called neighbors, who called police. Officers said they detonated the grenade in a park.
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