Grenade near highway stalls traffic as bomb squad rushes in
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A bomb squad rushed in after a work crew spotted a grenade on the side of a freeway in Washington state, slowing down Tuesday morning traffic.
"It had these metal spikes, and I got a better look and it looked like this grenade with the pin still in it," crew supervisor Jerry Rubadue told Fox 12.
The grenade turned up on Interstate 5 in Vancouver, on the Oregon border. The bomb squad destroyed it in short order.
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State officials said they weren't entirely sure how much damage the grenade could have done. “It could have been used as a display; it could have been used as a booby trap,” Trooper Will Finn told the Columbian.
Rubadue said he's found plenty of dangerous items on the side of a road. "I've found several weapons, like 4-5 handguns by now. A shotgun. I find cash registers."
Crews closed a lane of traffic for about an hour while the bomb squad worked.
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