Hong Kong Authorities Find World War I Grenade In Potato Shipment
- 5 years ago
A grenade from WWI was recently uncovered in a large batch of potatoes sent to Hong Kong from France.
A grenade from WWI was recently uncovered in a large batch of potatoes sent to Hong Kong from France, reports CNN.
According to the South China Morning Post, the approximately two-pound, three-inch-wide object was found in a plant operated by the Calbee Four Seas Company which makes potato chips and other snack foods.
One historian has suggested that the German-made weapon may have been left in a wartime trench which eventually became part of a potato-growing field.
It was detonated after officers "closed a nearby street, moved cars and piled sandbags around the grenade," reports the Independent.
A grenade from WWI was recently uncovered in a large batch of potatoes sent to Hong Kong from France, reports CNN.
According to the South China Morning Post, the approximately two-pound, three-inch-wide object was found in a plant operated by the Calbee Four Seas Company which makes potato chips and other snack foods.
One historian has suggested that the German-made weapon may have been left in a wartime trench which eventually became part of a potato-growing field.
It was detonated after officers "closed a nearby street, moved cars and piled sandbags around the grenade," reports the Independent.