Hand Grenade

A 12-year-old Glen Burnie boy went home after playing outside Monday night and told his father: "I found a hand grenade in the woods."It was a live hand grenade.Richard James Lowicki III, who will be entering the seventh grade at Old Mill Middle School in the fall, was playing ball in the woods near his home on Summer Wind Way about 8 p.m. when he found the grenade."I thought it was fake, like the ones you would buy at Sunny's Surplus, so I threw it in the Dumpster," said the youth, known as James.

A Waverly man doing some gardening last night found a World War II-era hand grenade in the ground, police said.Shortly before 7:30 p.m., Hoke Witherspoon, of the 600 block of E. 34th St., struck a metal object and removed it from the ground, police said. The object was a hand grenade known as a "pineapple" because of its similarity to the tropical fruit, police said.Police said Witherspoon carried the grenade away from his house and asked a neighbor to call authorities.Responding police sealed off the immediate area of Witherspoon's house and kept curious bystanders at a safe distance.