A grenade was found while two men were magnet fishing. The pair of fishermen called the police after spotting the explosive in a local river in Scotland.
Two men were fishing in a local canal when they happened to pull an unexploded grenade from the river. Friends behind the TikTok account @MagnetFishingEdinburgh found an interesting object while on a recent fishing occasion in early October. The pair, who have almost 500,000 TikTok followers, told SWNS, the British news service, that they were on the Union Canal in Linlithgow, Scotland, doing some magnet fishing when they pulled a grenade out of the river.
After waiting from afar for the police to look into the situation, the men said an officer told them that the positive news was that they saved the town — but then also delivered some disappointing news. 'The bad news is your magnet will be getting blown up with the grenade,' he recalled the police officer telling them. The explosive was taken from the canal and exploded in a controlled environment, according to a spokesperson for the Scotland police.