Kids uncover live grenade in Pace, Fla.

PACE, Fla., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Two boys in Pace, Fla., had a memorable Valentine's Day, uncovering a live World War II-era grenade in a patch of grass near their homes.

Sidney Mathis, 8, and his friend were playing with a metal detector Thursday near their apartment complex when they unearthed the bottom portion of the grenade. They eventually found the top part of the hand-held bomb, as well, The Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., reported.

"They had a bucket they were putting water in and said, 'Dad, you gotta see this. You gotta see this,'" said Chris Mathis, who had come over to visit with his son.

He said he immediately took the grenade away from his son and turned it over to two members of the Hurlburt Air Field's Explosive Ordnance Division, who destroyed it Friday.

How the grenade came to be in the residential neighborhood wasn't clear.