March 18 (UPI) — Army personnel were called to a Quebec home when the deceased owner’s daughter made a surprising discovery in a toolbox: a live grenade.
Kedrin Simms Brachman said she and some family members were cleaning out the Knowlton home formerly occupied by her father, Frank Simms, who died in October.
“We went into his tool room, which was always, like, nobody ever went into his tool room. That was a sacred place,” she told CTV News. “I was looking for something, and then I opened up the toolbox, and there was a grenade.”
Simms Brachman said she remembered the grenade from decades earlier, but had thought it was long gone.
“I remember this grenade from almost 30 years ago when Dad brought it back from my grandfather’s house,” she wrote on social media. “We all asked him to get rid of it and thought he had…well, he didn’t and it was loose and had moved houses …