Sex Bomb: Police said grenade belonged to the bedroom, not battlefield

A jogger in Germany stumbled across a bag containing what appeared to be a hand grenade while on a forest run outside the city of Passau, which is near the borders of Austria and the Czech Republic on Monday, 26 April.

German authorities responded and dispatched a police bomb squad to the scene to take a closer look at the suspected grenade.

THE GRENADE WAS A RUBBER SEX TOY

On Tuesday, German police announced that the grenade found by the jogger in the Bavarian forest was really a rubber sex toy, according to the Associated Press.

Authorities treat incidents such as this very seriously because leftover munitions from World War II are found regularly in the country.

After the bomb squad arrived at the scene and inspected the bag, which contained the grenade, they also found condoms and lubricant. Police used their skills to deduce that the grenade probably was not intended to be used as an explosive device and turned to the internet be extra sure.

“An internet search confirmed the suspicion,” police said to German news agency dpa. “There are actually sex toys in the form of hand grenades.”

UNCOVERING EXPLOSIVE DEVICES IS COMMON IN GERMANY

Last week, on Thursday, 22 April, construction workers in the southern city of Mannheim discovered a 500-kilogram aerial bomb, from World War II. The explosive device was found at the Franklin Barracks formerly used by the US military.

Approximately 3000 people within a 500 meter radius of the barracks were asked to vacate the area. By Thursday evening, local police announced that the bomb had been defused and it was safe for people to return to their homes.

According to German outlet DW, explosive devices are usually found during construction work in the country. Earlier this year, on 31 January, thousands of residents were evacuated from their homes when bomb disposal experts in the city of Göttingen in central Germany detonated four World War II bombs.

The US and British air forces dropped approximately 2.7 million tons of bombs on continental Europe and half of that amount fell in Germany, according to the Smithsonian Magazine. To this day, more than 70 years after the War, there are still thousands of unexploded bombs in the country.