SOMETIMES YOU CAN’T EVEN GIVE GRENADES AWAY.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 80

A restorationspecialist working on a library building in the North Caucasusdiscovered several dozen hand grenades in its walls but he hasbeen unable to turn them in to the local military or police authorities,Moskovskaya pravda reported August 18. The reason? Thepolice and military say that they must self-finance any destructionof weaponry and want the art restorer to pay $20 for each grenadeto be destroyed.