FLINT, MI -- The Flint Police bomb squad was able to secure a pineapple-style grenade after it was tossed by a rototiller Saturday, April 19 outside an Odette Street home.

A pineapple-style grenade was found by a Flint resident Saturday, April 19 after it flew in the air while they tilled a garden on Odette Street.

A message on the City of Flint Police Department Facebook page states police were called around 1:20 p.m. to Odette Street for a hand grenade, described as an "old fashioned "pineapple" grenade, by the responding officer who is a military veteran.

The grenade, rusty and covered with mud, had been tossed up in the air by a person that was tilling their garden. It was unknown if the grenade was live or a training device that would not contain any explosive, thus bomb squad members were called to the scene.

An officer set up a perimeter for precautionary reasons until the bomb squad responded to the scene and inspected the grenade. The grenade was rendered safe by bomb squad members around 3:30 p.m., followed by a search of the area using metal detectors for any other potential devices which came up empty.

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