Seattle Contractor Finds Grenade During Remodel
What’s the strangest item you discovered during a demo? Polar Bear Construction Owner Vadim Kharkhavyy found his answer this week: a grenade.
Previously, the most exciting things Seattle-based Kharkhavyy found were old China sets, bullet casings, and the ever common inappropriate magazines. But it will take a while for something to top his Tuesday discovery.
Kharkhavyy was remodeling a bathroom like any other day when something caught the corner of his eye.
“I thought it was some kind of ventilation pipe, and then as I moved the tub and got closer, I said ‘Oh my god, that looks like a freaking grenade,’” he tells Pro Remodeler. “So I got a little bit frightened and put the tub down and ran out of the room, and just gave it about five minutes just in case. I didn't know if I set something off.”
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After stepping away from the grenade, Kharkhavyy zoomed in using his phone to double-check the unidentified object hidden in the bathtub’s surround.
A very unusual phone call to the equally shocked homeowner followed, and then a call to the police department and then the arrival of the bomb squad. But there was no chance Kharkhavyy was stepping back in that bathroom until it was deemed safe.
The bomb squad determined it was not a live grenade and upon further investigation, found the grenade was placed in the wall through a small compartment that accessed underneath the bathtub through the closet on the opposite side of the wall.
“Even if you open that compartment, you still would not know it's there. You wouldn't even have known if you put your head in there because everything is so tight with all the electrical and plumbing in the way,” says Kharkhavyy. “So somebody had to know you know that it was there because of the way they reached in.”
