German police say grenade-shaped item in forest was sex toy

<p>BERLIN &mdash; A German police bomb squad called to investigate a suspected hand grenade in a Bavarian forest determined that the object actually was a rubber sex toy, authorities said Tuesday.</p>
<p>A jogger reported finding a bag containing the device Monday in a forest outside the city of Passau, near Germany’s borders with Austria and the Czech Republic.</p>
<p>The discovery of forgotten or hidden munitions is still a regular occurrence in Germany more than 75 years after the end of World War II.</p>
<p>But when a bomb squad arrived and inspected the contents of the bag, they determined it was a rubber grenade replica. The condoms and lubricant in the bag helped inform the hypothesis about the device’s intended use, police told German news agency dpa.</p>
<p>“An internet search confirmed the suspicion,” police said. “There are actually sex toys in the form of hand grenades.”</p>