One rather oblivious man has handed his prized nutcracker (that he had been using for 25 years) over to police after discovering that it was actually a grenade, generating the usual incredulity and incomprehension from those unable to understand how the man could not tell the difference.

Tipped off by a safety leaflet regarding explosives, the man quickly realized that his nutcracker strangely resembled an old-fashioned 1960’s era stick grenade and contacted the authorities – an inspection by police is being conducted to determine if the device is still capable of exploding.

The “nutcracker”:

The owner of the nutcracker stated that he received the weapon of war as a gift from a friend back in 1991, although whether the friend knew what it was and what their real motivations were if they did know are worth some further investigation perhaps…