{"id":119816,"date":"2020-05-26T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T08:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=119816"},"modified":"2020-05-26T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T08:50:08","slug":"young-boy-saved-by-dad-after-grenade-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/young-boy-saved-by-dad-after-grenade-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Boy Saved By Dad After Grenade Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man pulled his son away from a live grenade at the last second as he stopped him picking it up.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The grenade was found on a popular canal walk route and was initially mistaken for a turtle in the ground, the pair said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_119817\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119817\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119817\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/12E23C18-645C-407C-A7CF-9B59FE5D6DD1-220x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/12E23C18-645C-407C-A7CF-9B59FE5D6DD1-220x300.jpeg 220w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/12E23C18-645C-407C-A7CF-9B59FE5D6DD1-752x1024.jpeg 752w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/12E23C18-645C-407C-A7CF-9B59FE5D6DD1-768x1046.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/12E23C18-645C-407C-A7CF-9B59FE5D6DD1-600x817.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/12E23C18-645C-407C-A7CF-9B59FE5D6DD1.jpeg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-119817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The grenade.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>However, Louie Lomas, 29, soon realised it wasn\u2019t a turtle, but a grenade, and stopped his son picking it up from the ground just as Lockley, 5, was reaching for it.<\/p>\n<p>Louis said: \u201cIt was right by our feet. I thought, \u2018What\u2019s a turtle doing in the ground?\u2019 But it was pretty obvious what it was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLockley did try to pick it up and I had to grab him very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After realising what the object actually was, the 29 year old said he called the police to come and possibly remove it from the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey jumped us into the car and sped to the end of the road,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily we were in the middle of nowhere with no houses within 100 meters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was disappointed I didn\u2019t get to see it explode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe look on Lockley\u2019s mum\u2019s face when we got back,\u201d Louie continued, \u201cit freaked her right out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the police and bomb squad arrived, they safely detonated the grenade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man pulled his son away from a live grenade at the last second as he stopped him picking it up. The grenade was found on a popular canal walk route and was initially mistaken for a turtle in the ground, the pair said. 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