Is it a real bomb or not?

Task leader Rufus, who is actually called something else, says that the police should always be contacted if they find something that could be explosive.

– It is the job of bomb protection, our responsibility and our obligation to make these evaluations. We go out and do an on-site assessment if we’re not sure. We would rather be called a thousand times unnecessarily than something happened.

He also advises against of storing grenades at home, even if you think you are convinced that they are harmless.

– If it starts to burn on you and firefighters see one, there is a great risk that they will back off.

Despite the fact that a series of evaluations are carried out before calling the National Bomb Protection, it happens that things completely different from bombs and grenades use their resources. This is a common false alarm:

Geocach

– During an operation on the water tower in the port of Södertälje, a police officer at the scene described cables sticking out of a bundle. We thought it didn’t feel right, but we started looking for geocache sites and saw that a “treasure” was hidden by the water tower. Geochache is like a scavenger hunt with GPS support, you search for hidden packages and compete with each other.

Teambuilding

– Two policemen search a car. They open the trunk lid and find a classic film bomb: a briefcase containing a large LCD screen and a keyboard. An action team from the bomb squad arrives quickly. One of the guys on the team recognizes the “bomb” from a team-building exercise he’s been in. It turns out that there has been a robbery in a company of this type where a briefcase with a bomb ladder has been stolen.

Paintball

– Paintball companies try to make weapons as realistic as possible. Flashing Packs, exploding miniature grenades, are made to look like real objects. If those things are left behind and found in public places, they can consume huge resources completely unnecessarily. For example, we launched a big operation in the subway that turned out to be on simple toy grenades.

Old fire extinguishers

– We can receive calls from brokers to farms where they have found oxygen containers for old fire extinguishers. Really old fire extinguishers have a glass bulb wrapped in cotton with wood shavings. It looks like nitroglycerin.

Shelter filter

– Both at home with individuals and at recycling facilities, they have found what they believe to be mines and the bomb protection is on. Mines can be very similar to old refuge filters, they are approximately the same size. Shelter filters also sometimes have military text and that makes it even more suspicious.

The objects in the pictures, task leader Rufus says:

Object 1.

“The objects on the sides are sharp hand grenades, but we have collected the explosives. We found the middle one in the Stockholm area. It is a case containing a kit. You can see a screwdriver inside. Say you have one like this And let it go. Then not only can we discard it from an image, but we’ll have to go to the place and examine it. “

Object 2.

“This grenade was fired. We see this because the belt, the middle of the grenade, the lines, shows that it has gone through a barrel. What’s remarkable is that someone painted the top red and sat on a green ribbon. According to the Swedish color theory, green means that it is completely blind, that is, it is not dangerous at all. If someone who has worked in defense for a few years, for example, is consulted by a neighbor and sees that it is green You can say it’s blind and take it out for recycling or the forest. Then it could be a potential hazard. “

Object 3.

“We have this as a museum object. I think it’s from the former Soviet Union and it’s called a flechette granada. Around the green rod are small arrows with guide fins. All the small arrows fly out like a swarm of hail. It is intended to be used against soft targets, i.e. unarmored vehicles, cars and people. It was common from World War I until at least the 1980s in the war. “

Object 4.

This type is called a light-winged grenade. It is pushed high into the air where it splits. In the parachute there is a substance that burns with a bright white light called battlefield illumination. The pomegranate creates natural light on the ground. The danger with such grenades is that the substance they contain is highly flammable and contains a small explosive charge. Sometimes they find homes for people. We don’t know when they are on the shelf if it is a sharp or empty grenade. “

Object 5.

“These were found in Alvik four years ago. Here they have taken the grenade and turned an aluminum plate underneath to make it a perfect bookend. They were stored in a larger villa and in connection with a move they contacted us. It was not known whether they contained explosives. We could quickly see that they did not contain spark plugs. “

Object 6.

“This is a Yugoslav hand grenade called model 93. We have cut one side of it and put a magic mass and a completely blind and harmless lighter on it. We use it as training material for policemen and prosecutors, to show how small a grenade is handheld, which can be so dangerous. They measure seven to eight centimeters. “

Object 7.

This type is called a grenade cartridge. Model 1900. This is by far the most common type of grenade used by both us and the defense. We get those jobs two or three times a week. Many people have painted and used it as an ornament. They are almost always empty. I found one with a painted pony, but unfortunately we blew it up. “

Object 8.

“If you have this USB stick in your bag and you are going to fly, you will have some trouble catching up on the flight. Without being a moral father, it can be said that this makes calls unnecessary for us and the police. “

Object 9.

“This was found by staff at a sawmill; you can see that the saw blade had time to go through a bit before being discovered. It’s a ball-loaded grenade from an old Swedish armored shot – a stupid bulge that goes off, but the propellant charge is sharp, something that is practiced militarily. He was shot a long time ago and got pinned to a tree. The pump technicians had to go to the sawmill for an evaluation. They cut it up and took it to the base. “

Object 10.

This is what was in the “grenade” in the first image. The bit is attached at the top and has a chisel, with a grenade as a handle, to handle every conceivable screw.

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