On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:33:05 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Cleland picked up the grenade
because he thought it was his, and he always bent the pins so they would
not go off accidentally.

Not so. Grenade fuses leave the factory with the pins bent, and they
are so difficult to withdraw that some would straighten the pins and
carry them that way.

Casady