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Grenade box find joins a runaway pumpkin on the news desk

Police in Texas responded after the shopper opened the box at home, and a separate wind-blown pumpkin in North Carolina was also on the move; at least that one was only air.

On air: Gloria Vance and Chip Darnell on BBN Overnight
Published 1:34 AM ET, Thursday, October 15, 2026

Photo: zaphad1 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

Photo: Grenade — Photo: zaphad1 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

At a glance

First reported by UPI: “Look: Estate sale purchase turns out to be box of live WWII grenades”.
Covered on BBN on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 1:34 AM ET on BBN Overnight, by Gloria Vance and Chip Darnell.
Topics: WWII, North Carolina.
BBN covered this story before: Runaway pumpkin joins a playbook mystery in tonight's odd file (October 14).

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What BBN said about it

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA giant inflatable pumpkin was swept off a North Carolina farm by the wind and went rolling down the road, which is the other odd story from the same overnight pile as the live World War Two grenades an estate sale shopper found in a box in Texas.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA runaway pumpkin, Gloria. The whole road just let it through.
Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNobody was asked to inspect it. At the very least, it was only full of air.