Daughter Finds WWII- Era Grenade While Cleaning Out Dad's Garage

You never know what treasures or dangers lurk when when you go to clean out the garage. This is especially true when we are asked to clean out someone else's garage.

A woman in Otis, Oregon came across an interesting find while going through boxes in her late father's garage - a World War II-era hand grenade.
She called the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office to report what she found, and deputies confirmed it was a real grenade.

As of the time of this posting, the sheriff's department was still trying to determine if the grenade was live.

Photo - Lincoln County Sheriff's Office

Via - KATU


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Pulling the ring and throwing it away is not the best option, too. The fuse may not ignite or or only ignite after an extended period of time, just long enough to lure the user to look after the blind fraggie.I would suggest to aquire as much information as possible about the grenade. If possible identify the exact type. If the exact type has been identified, put it on a scale to determine if it is filled or not. Also try to determine the kind of explosive inside the grenade, to determine if there is a chance that it has become unstable over the time, if not, just screw the fuse off. In my country you just call the explosive ordonance disposal service, and they will take kare of such souveniers. I would strongly advise not to take it to the next police station :-) In my country just touching it would be a criminal act under the war weapons control act... So don't touch it..
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Interesting. Though I think the theory behind imprinting is cultural and culture bleeds together. I don't think blue is a distinctively male color because my parents bought me blue pajamas and a blue blankie, but because the entire culture associates blue with boys and pink with girls.

On another note, women cannot be color-blind and men cannot have super-color vision like some women. Whereas men will be color blind because they lack a third cone responding to the red range, women can have a fourth cone that bisects the red range and gives a richer spectrum of colors. Then there is achromatopsia which is the inability to see color and a really bad name for a baby girl.

Perhaps some of the difference is in the color-opponency cells in the occipital cortex and perhaps the associating of different colors. A part of me suspects women are trained by the culture to recognize a greater range of color names and men are basically not expected to. Wine-tasters also have a wider range of names for flavors, using terms like "earthy" that non-wine-tasters by and large don't use. I doubt the wide range of color names employed by women are innate. But like the wine-tasters, they learn to discriminate.

Even given all that, which is done to be fair, I think there might actually be some innate predilection, but devising a conclusive experiment for that is problematic.
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I don't think forced choice paradigms like making people choose a favourite and least favourite colour has good ecological validity as many adults don't have favourite colours. I know I don't.

@ Ryan S, women can also have colour blindness but it is quite uncommon. Colour blindness is carried on the X chromosome. If males inherit an X chromosome with the mutation it will be displayed in the phenotype. If women inherit 1, she will be a carrier, however if she inherits the mutation from both X chromosomes, it will be displayed in the phenotype.

Also, you have a point about gender differences in the vocabulary of colour:
"Stecklers' study in 1990 concluded that women's ability of naming colors is far more precise than men's and also they have a broader vocabulary for color names such as ecru, aquamarine, lavender, and mauve."
http://www.colormatters.com/news_spring_07/focus.html
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@Muzition and AntDude, the above graph shows females' least favourite colours. Blue was chosen most frequently by both genders as their favourite colour.
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