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Florida Goodwill store gets an explosive donation: a grenade

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For the second time in just a year, a Florida Goodwill store got a donation it didn't want:  a grenade.

Luckily, the grenade - which was discovered in a donation bin at the Port St. Lucie Goodwill - did not detonate.


Employees called 911 as soon as they found the grenade, and the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office bomb squad responded and evacuated the store, according to the TCPalm newspaper.

A bomb squad tech says the grenade was inert.

This is the second time a grenade was discovered in a Florida Goodwill donation bin.  It happened last July at another Goodwill in the same town.

In case you're wondering: no, Goodwill does not accept weapon donations.  

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