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| 2020-08-20 |
| DALLAS COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) - The Dallas County Courthouse was briefly evacuated and blocked off Tuesday afternoon due to a bomb scare. The situation developed after a woman brought a grenade to the courthouse wanting to find a way to dispose of it. The explosive device was in her car, according to officials. Following an examination of the device, experts determined it was a harmless training grenade that didn’t have any explosive powder in it. No injuries were reported. The Lady is a friend of mine. I'll call her Jenny. She can be a bit ditzy at times. It all started with her late husband who was an avid scuba diver. Several years ago he was diving in the Alabama River near the Edmund Pettus Bridge and found some Civil War artifacts and several WWII practice grenades. They had already been used. For some reason Jenny has been carrying one of them around in her trunk in a small cooler. She went to the courthouse to file some paperwork and when she parked there were two Sheriff's Deputies near the entrance, so she asked if they could help her dispose of the grenade. Jenny showed them the grenade and they took her away from the car, evacuated the courthouse, and called the Bomb Squad in Montgomery which took about two hours for a response. After they determined it posed no danger everything returned to normal, Jenny went in and filed her paperwork. Jenny said she asked the clerk if she enjoyed her "vacation" and then told the clerk what happened. |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |