An unusual story related to Green Day has their album cover helping to defuse a potentially dangerous situation in Halifax, England. The logo, which features a hand holding a grenade shaped like a heart, allowed a 12 year-old English girl to identify some very dangerous small munitions in her back yard.
Ruby Wilson, of Halifax, England, was doing a little gardening when she discovered a live grenade lying among the weeds. Ruby recognized the item as a grenade from a Green Day shirt she owns and took the grenade to her father who immediately called the police.
The bomb squad was dispatched to the area and the nearby houses and businesses were evacuated, including a munitions factory, in order to safely remove the World War II-era grenade. The grenade was later detonated in a controlled explosion at a nearby playing field.
The image appears on the band's latest album, American Idiot. Of course, this isn't the first time the band has been connected with unusual "miracles." Last March, the band's album helped another young Brit recover from a coma.