The Philadelphia Inquirer Newsmakers column: Thanks, Green Day, for the grenade lesson.(Column)

Byline: Tirdad Derakhshani

Jun. 16--Green Day single-handedly resurrected '70s punk, single-handedly saving Punkness for the world. Now, the Berkeley, Calif.-born troupe has saved an actual life. Fact it's their art that saved the life of one Ruby Wilson. The 12-year-old Brit fan was cleaning up the garden at her family home in Halifax, Yorkshire, when she found "what looked like a round metal object," she told Halifax Today. She coulda played with it. But she quickly realized her find "looked like a hand grenade." She learned this life lesson from the CD cover for Green Day's explosive rock opera American Idiot, which shows a hand holding a bleeding, heart-shaped grenade. (Don't think Ruby's was bleeding.)

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