Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/12/26/man-learns-his-walnut-cracker.html
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If it is that type of grenade, I would think they would make piss poor nut crackers.
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Call Homeland Security.
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Well, if it worked true to its intended purpose, it would indeed crack a nut or two.
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Hah. Poseurs. I take my Brazilnuts and drop them on abandoned land mines. Works every time.
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“Nut cracker”? That’s clearly a (Chinese variant of a) “potato masher.”
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This is why a knowledge of history is important.
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Looks like it is the Japanese variant, as seen below. Not surprising if it was picked up in China.
http://www.lexpev.nl/grenades/middleeastasia/japan/type98.html
Of course, dummy grenades were used by all WWII armies for training. It may be one of those. Just unscrew the bottom of the handle. If there’s a string there, pull it and you’ll find out in a few seconds.
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Lolipop_jones:
I’d get someone else to pull the string.
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Possibly. The the text in the photo identifies it as a Type 67, but who knows what it really is without having a weapons historian look at it.
man…you can’t even get real grenades in china these days! 
this knockoff economy has gotten out of hand…
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Under the Trump trade plan, we’ll build all our grenades here in the USA again, and by golly, every single one of 'em will work just fine.
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Was about to say that. I was just wondering how it got to China, but then I read the comment by lolipop_jones thats a japanese model.
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I’d suggest a howitzer.
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If I was that guy I’d have had it checked to make absolutely sure it can’t explode and then continued using it to crack nuts because that is a pretty cool nutcracker. In fact, where can I get one?
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either the worst or the best walnut cracker ever.
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And it looks kind of like the head is wooden, which would indicate that this is a training dummy. Which could easily imagine somebody thinking would be a funny, novelty nut cracker.
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Wait, we can give exploding nut crackers as gifts? Where was this story two weeks ago?!!!
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