![]() Nottinghamshire Police explained the object seemed to be a small and old grenade. "We didn't really believe him when he first said it, but he thinks it is brilliant - I printed a picture off so he could take it to school and show the teachers." "But he didn't back away, he just ran up to it excitedly, he's always energetic so I wasn't surprised. It looks like a grenade, but why it would be in a park in Mansfield I don't know. "As it has no pin or lever it looked like a dud but you never know, it could have been dangerous. Young Theo was more excited than frightened according to his dad, and has even taken pictures of the object he found into school. ![]() But then Theo said 'I found a grenade mum' and she said 'how do you know' and he replied 'I've seen them before but it doesn't have the pin in' - so that was quite a shock. "We were in Tesco, just doing some shopping, when I got a call saying they had some 'news' so I thought there had been an accident or something. ![]() Our son is quite inquisitive and always right, so he started digging and telling the neighbour it was a grenade and then my neighbour decided to ring the police. "Our son went out with the neighbour, they were playing a little American football and it went into the hedge bottom. Which member of the Royal Family are you? Take our quiz here Mr Bools, from South Normanton, Derbyshire, said he was stupefied by what his son had found. ![]() In response, police officers and the Ministry of Defence's bomb squad descended on the park, closing it for hours. ![]()
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