ABC is reporting that a grenade was tossed at President Bush as he addressed thousands gathered in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Guram Donadze, spokesman for the Georgian Interior Ministry, said no hand grenade was thrown close to Bush. “This is an absolute lie. This did not occur,” Donadze told The Associated Press.

Officials from President Maikhail Saakashvili’s office were not immediately available for comment. Georgia’s security service has been merged with the Interior Ministry.

The White House referred the AP to the Secret Service for comment.

ABC is best known for its hard-hitting expose of American Idol.

UPDATE: Confirmed, but it was harmless.

TBILISI, Georgia (CNN) — A grenade found near the site where U.S. President George W. Bush made a speech in Tblisi was an inactive Soviet-era device, Georgian officials said Wednesday.

Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Guram Donadze described the device as a “non-combative” grenade used in military training and said it did not contain explosives.

The device was placed in the crowd about 200 feet from where Bush was speaking. It was not thrown, as was previously believed, Donadze said.

It never posed a danger to Bush and was apparently placed by someone who wanted to scare people in the crowd and attract media attention, Donadze said.

It apparently hit someone in the head, fell to the ground, and that was that. Turns out the Georgian equivilent of the secret service, however, can neither produce the grenade or the person hit. This story is becoming very lame, very quickly.