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NM Goodwill collection box turns up inert grenade
TweetPublished: Fri, September 3, 2010 @ 3:18 p.m.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Just in case it wasn’t clear: Weapons and drugs don’t make good charitable donations.
Albuquerque police briefly evacuated a Goodwill store Thursday after someone left a pistol, ammunition, a grenade and some marijuana in a collection box.
Police spokeswoman Nadine Hamby says the police bomb squad took the grenade away for demolition after determining tit was an inert — or inactive — World War II-style grenade.
The police report did not list what type of guns were in the box or the quantity of marijuana.
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Folks...all donation boxes are to have money, and the occaisonal million dollar rare coin.
Just thinkin'-the cops could have sold the gun(s) and ammo (to legitimate gun buyers) and donated that money to the Goodwill people. As for the grenade and the drugs, they would not be appropriate and should be disposed of in a legal and appropriate manner.
At least this way, the Goodwill store could have gotten something out of this.
It was worth a try.