Man who ordered mobile phone online gets grenade in mail instead

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Were they blowing up his phone?

A man in Mexico who ordered a smartphone was flabbergasted after he received a bomb in the mail instead.

The unidentified customer claimed that he’d ordered the communications tool from an online store to his house in León, Guanajuato, local media reported.

When the package arrived last Monday, the man’s mother took it inside and put it on the kitchen table, per Jam Press.

Little did he know, his smartphone was actually a smart bomb: The aspiring phone owner opened a parcel to reveal that it contained a fragmentation grenade, as seen in photos blowing up online.

Concerned over the potentially deadly mix-up, the man phoned authorities, whereupon the bomb squad was dispatched to the scene.

Meanwhile, authorities with the Ministry of National Defense cordoned off the man’s domicile.

Thankfully, the army managed to deactivate the device, while authorities are currently probing the Unabomber-like package.

It’s yet unclear who sent the grenade, which is illegal to own in Mexico.

Unfortunately, illicit ordnance is a fairly common find in Central Mexico, where drug cartels are using more and more roadside bombs in their ongoing wars over turf.

Over the past six years, police have seized over 600 improvised explosive devices in Guanajuato alone.

In 2022, an elderly Frenchman redefined explosive indigestion after arriving at a hospital with a World War I artillery shell in his rectum, prompting a mass evacuation.