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Boys seeking buried treasure with metal detector in Florida find live grenade
PACE, Fla. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy and his friend found a live, World War II-era hand grenade while searching for buried treasure with a metal detector.
Sidney Mathis and his friend had found nails, bolts and a toy car by sweeping the detector over a field near their home Thursday. But it was their other find that alarmed Sidney's father, Chris Mathis.
He arrived home Thursday to find the boys about to put the grenade into a bucket of water. Chris Mathis grabbed the grenade and dangled it outside the window of his sport utility vehicle as he drove away from the apartment complex.
Mathis had second thoughts.
"I hit a bump and that's about the time I realized moving the grenade wasn't the brightest thing to do," he said.
Two members of an Air Force explosives unit from nearby Hurlburt Field in the Florida Panhandle took the grenade and destroyed it Friday morning.
AP-ES-02-16-08 2111EST
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Rural nostalgia for a time that never was is so boring at times , isn't it , Jason ?
Alo'ha , /s Steve , who , ( parenthetically ), owns 36 coconut trees , a mango tree , breadfruit and beetlenut trees , grows his own sweet potatos and taro , cinnamon ( it's the bark of a tree ) , mountain apples ( tropical ) , papayas and pineapples and a New Hampshire red chicken that gives me a fresh brown egg every day and a geothermal power plant in my back yard
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Wind power: $1 billion and growing
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T. Boone Pickens has to put his money somewhere . Wind power doesn't pollute the air like the coal fired power plants in the midwest and communist China . Wind blows at night when the sun is down . ME has a long history of wind power ( and acid rain ) already http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Maine " In Maine, the wind power industry has invested $1 billion in recent years. No other industry in the state can claim a similar level of investment or job creation. " What do your Hon. U .S . Senators think about all this ? They sure have missed the boat on B I W contracts . Personally i favor hydropower ( the St. Johns River ) , your Bay of Fundy tides , and geothermal ( IMBY Puna geothermal ) but i am in Hawai'i where we still use mostly Alaskan oil , unfortunately
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Perhaps I could better understand your point of view if you criticized the tax code instead of attacking the individual.
Attacking the individual shows hues of envy.
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