Grenade near road closes Oregon highway
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SWEET HOME, Ore. - Before they found the grenade sitting next to the road, officers were already on the scene sorting out a dispute between two neighbors, the Sweet Home Police department said.
“It could be seen as a threat," said Sweet Home Police Department spokeswoman Gina Riley at the station on Monday morning. "Any time that you have an explosive devise in the public, we take it as a threat definitely.”
The grenade - which proved to be real but inert - sparked a closure of a nearby Oregon highway while the bomb squad responded to the scene.
The incident started around 7:40 a.m. Monday when a Holley Road resident called police about a neighbor trespassing on his property, identified as Adam Foss.
Officers arrived on scene and asked Foss to leave the property. He did, and the complainant opted not to press charges against Foss.
But then police saw a grenade on the sidewalk in front of the neighbor's house after another neighbor, Tiffany Mills, pointed it out to them.
“They told me to stay in the house and let them do their business," said Mills, who said she found the grenade in her front driveway around 7:30 Monday morning.
That prompted police to ask state officials to close nearby Highway 228 while the Oregon State Bomb Squad responded to the scene.
The road was closed until about 10:30 a.m.
After an initial interview with Mills, police said her neighbor Adam Foss had claimed to have found the grenade while cleaning his house Sunday and had placed it near the street Monday morning.
Neighbors confirmed to police that the grenade had been out on the sidewalk for a while before police arrived in response to the trespassing complaint.
No criminal charges had been filed in the case as of Monday evening. Police said Adam Foss, who put the grenade on the sidewalk, was taken into custody for a mental health evaluation at a hospital.
Initial report
SWEET HOME, Ore. - A grenade found near an Oregon highway prompted closure of the road Monday morning while the bomb squad responded to the scene.
All lanes of Oregon Highway 228 (the Halsey-Sweet Home Highway) were closed in Sweet Home this morning at the request of police, the Oregon Department of Transportation said.
Police there said a grenade was found on the road.
The road has been closed for public safety until a bomb squad can respond and determine whether the grenade is live or not.
No word yet on what the bomb squad found. The road was re-opened to traffic at 10:30 a.m.
Is this from operation fast and furious?
You mean OSP bomb squad didn't take it inside a building and beat and pry on it to disarm it?
apparently the police do not know about 5s and 25s... or they just arent doing them
Things I find while cleaning my house this weekend: 5th century mummy, Sherman tank, Egyptian pyramid, tank of electric eels, pallet of Spam, stash of looted Nazi art. Nothing much, just like the grenade this person found while cleaning their house. Happens to me every day while dusting.
"...placed it near the street Monday morning." Seriously? I guess Monday must be trash and recycling day. I even feel a bit nervous setting my bottles of used motor oil at the curb for the recyclers to pick up because of what vandals might do with them during the night.
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More perfessional journalism: "Neighbors confirmed to police that the grenade at been out on the sidewalk for a while..."
 @HenryBowman Yep love the time I came out to see my recycling on fire. Called the police and they said is it out. I said yes and they said will what do you want us to do. I said well it would be nice if you sent an officer to catch the guy as he is lighting the rest of my neighbors recycling bins on fire...ya think!!!
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As I was cleaning up an officer pulled up who had just put out two other fires....
We need a ban on all Assault grenades!
 @dkgiovenco So if I paint my pink so it looks pretty to the liberals will it still be an assault grenade?
 @FreedomRocks  @dkgiovenco As long as it doesn't contain more than 5 shards of shrapnel.
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Not very bright at all, to just put a grenade beside the road. Especially if they did not know if it was live or inert.
It seems like the neighbors need to perhaps have a sit down discussion about how to get along.
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Lots of silly comments also I see.
It is monday, the sun may peek out.Marys peak was a blast in the snow Saturday
"Neighbors confirmed to police that the grenade at been out on the sidewalk for a while before police arrived in response to the trespassing complaint."
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apparently the neighbors are fine with grenades laying around. ><
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Guess somebody should make sure Mayor Hales knows about this... it'll give him something else to grand-stand about...
Down with automatic grenades on our freeways. Only one grenade per person . Grenade throwers must have hand throw permit . This problem is growing and something should be done about it. No one talks about it in WA DC.  Â
"All lanes of Oregon Highway 228... ...was closed..." They was?
Great..now they will want to ban Grenades and high capacity highways!
Those should be illegal.
They already are!
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 @GNTLwarrior Biden, Feinstein and Hales should immediately pass legislation to ban grenades.Â
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Decommissioned paperweight grenades, too, because it scares the pee out of the hippies every time the media sensationalizes something involving gun-people stuff.Â
Could have been one of those paperweights made out of old decomissioned pineapple grenades.
 @Reflect That happened to my roommate in college. DOH. CNN helicopters were not deployed. The police politely asked him to remove the dummy grenade from his dashboard.
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Might have been an airsoft grenade, too. My cousin gave me one. They used compressed air and you use them to clear a room or an area, and then pick up the reusable upper unit when you've taken the area. Total POS. If mine fell out of the back of my jeep the only reason I'd go back for it is because I don't litter.
Great, now we won,t be able to buy any more grenades!
Even inert ones I guess!