Experts have confirmed that the large egg-shaped piece of metal is actually a real World War II hand grenade. (Ocala Police Department)

What would you do if you encountered a WWII grenade? For a Florida couple who stumbled across a grenade while fishing, the answer was clear: Take it to Taco Bell, Ocala, Florida, on January 26 at 5:01 p.m. local time. Police dispatchers received a call from a woman who said she and her boyfriend found a grenade while fishing in the nearby Ocklawaha River.

, but her story does not end there. Representatives from the Ocala Police Department (OPD) posted on Facebook that after checking the grenade, the woman's boyfriend placed the grenade in the trunk of her car and the two drove to the Ocala Taco Bell. Bell) and notified the police. [7 Technologies That Changed Warfare]

The couple - Lorena Upton and Charles Carter - magnet fished the river, looking for valuable scraps of metal they could salvage and sell, Sgt. Jameson Boucher records in a case narrative. When Carter picked up the grenade, he put it and some other scrap metal in a bucket, put the bucket in Upton's trunk, and then drove with Upton to a Taco Bell to call Police, Boucher said,

Shortly after receiving the call, police confirmed the object was in fact an "actual World War II" grenade," according to the Facebook post. They quickly evacuated the restaurant and parking lot , the Marion County Sheriff's Bomb Squad also came to the scene to contain and deliver old explosives with corroded casings similar to those used by the United States during World War II and the Vietnam War. A model commonly used by soldiers, the Northwest Florida Daily News (NWFDN) reports that it is also known as the "Pineapple Grenade" due to its ridged body structure. Used extensively by U.S. soldiers from the end of World War II to the Vietnam War. (U.S. Army)

Hand grenades—small bombs that can be fired or thrown by hand—have been used in American wars since the American Revolution, according to the U.S. According to the National Museum of History (NMAH), spherical gunpowder explosives helped turn the tide of colonial warfare during this time, becoming one of the largest battles at sea, according to the 1988 U.S. Army Field Manual.

A grenade consists of three main parts: the body, a filler (chemical or explosive substance), and a fuse that detonates or detonates the filler. In the Mk 2 grenade, the filler is ***-TNT in a cast iron body; according to the field manual, It weighed 21 ounces (595 grams) and had an explosion radius of about 33 feet (10 meters), and a clinic agent who examined the grenade said it appeared to be unsafe due to the highly corroded metal body.

Fortunately, the Taco Bell grenade quietly left the scene, the Ocala Police Department told local residents on Facebook, and bomb squad experts removed it from the parking lot "without incident," the police report concluded the day. With four reassuring words: “Taco Bell has reopened. ” Photos: Nazi Germany’s Flying Bombs 22 of the Weirdest Military Weapons 10 of the Most Powerful Explosions of All Time

Originally published in Live Science.