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Goodwill employees find loaded grenade launcher among donated items

By Jessica De Leon

jdeleon@bradenton.com


January 31, 2018 01:13 PM



Manatee
Goodwill employees discovered a grenade launcher, loaded with a live grenade, this past weekend in a load of items donated at a Bradenton store, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.


On Sunday, deputies were called out to the Goodwill Manasota Bargain Barn, 7501 15th St. E., after employees discovered a grenade launcher with a grenade inside it, according to an incident report. The store manager told deputies that the grenade launcher had come in on Jan. 25 in a shipment from a store on Cortez Road.


According to the Goodwill manager, employees at the Bradenton location didn’t know what the donated item was, so they sent it to the Bargain Barn location.


Deputies say they properly disposed of the active grenade by placing it in a Hazmat locker at the sheriff’s office District One office. The grenade launcher has been placed into the property room.

The store manager told deputies she would let the other Goodwill store know about the discovery.

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article197613449.html#storylink=cpy

 

[seminole97]

Kind of the opposite of when you’re in the check out and realize your kid stuck something in the cart.

I wish they had included a pic, but I’d put my money on it being a 37mm ‘flare launcher’.

Makes for a fun 4th of July...

 

[Gonolz]

Whether or not they kept it, I'm still taking my tax deduction.

 

[Urban Cryer]

This is why I never give to Goodwill, I'd be pissed if I lose mine!

 

[billanole]

Whether or not they kept it, I'm still taking my tax deduction.

And, you get to determine the amount. It sounds like a really rare, much in demand model that collectors are hot after. Add some zeros to your deduction. Just ‘cause you can.

 

[NDallasRuss]

And, you get to determine the amount. It sounds like a really rare, much in demand model that collectors are hot after. Add some zeros to your deduction. Just ‘cause you can.

Don't you have to use pricing from comparable sales/listings to determine the price? Depending on the model it could be less than $1k.

Link to grenade launchers for sale

 

[billanole]

Don't you have to use pricing from comparable sales/listings to determine the price? Depending on the model it could be less than $1k.

Link to grenade launchers for sale

Naw, naw, naw. Look at the one for $4,500.... which is the production model based on this one of a kind prototype that was once owned by Carlos the Jackel. Carlos got it from Fidel Castro during a state sponsored visit documented by the KGB. Putin has that film on as background noise in his many offices. This rig spent time with the Contra, Shining Path, Revolutionary Guard, and The Source (AKA Al Qaeda), has a journal of documented kills, references to near captures and cancelled raids, and is in mint condition.
This baby is purported to be made of the rarest of metals, signed by the maker, has multiple customs stamps visible verso, and is invisible to TSA screenings. Issa bad boy and worth bou coup.

 

[Gonolz]

You should see the prices these things are going for in Syria right now. I could have sold there, but I'm 'Merican, so keep it 'Merican and deduct the Syrian value.

 

[billanole]

You should see the prices these things are going for in Syria right now. I could have sold there, but I'm 'Merican, so keep it 'Merican and deduct the Syrian value.

Fa real.