MILLBROOK, N.Y. (AP) — It’s not every day you find a grenade while removing a tree stump. Fred Hill did, but luckily for the Hudson Valley tree service worker the explosive wasn’t live.
Hill tells the Poughkeepsie Journal he was working to clear away a tree stump outside a home Wednesday morning in the Dutchess County village of Millbrook when he hit something “hard and metal-like” while digging.
The 36-year-old employee of Mike’s Tree Service in Clinton Corners then picked a dirt-covered object that was the size of a baseball. It turned out to be a grenade.
Hill says he tossed it out of the way and called 911.
A state police bomb squad unit arrived and the street was closed off. Troopers say the grenade was found to be “non-active” and posed no danger to the public.
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