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The Ultimate Fish Tale, a Snagged Grenade

Updated: Fri 10:55 PM, Aug 03, 2012

Everyone has their favorite fish tale, but this one will be hard to beat.

Authorities say a Lincoln man caught a grenade Thursday night. He told Lancaster County Sheriff Deputies he was fishing at Area One of Wagon Train Lake when he thought he snagged his line.

As he reeled in he noticed his hook snagged on a hand grenade. He called 9-11 and deputies confirmed it was a grenade and called in the State Patrol bomb squad.

Officials evacuated the area and the bomb squad blew up the grenade.
Authorities believe it was live and had the pin still attached. They have no idea how it got there or how long it had been in the lake.

No one was injured. Authorities think the grenade was from the Vietnam era.


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