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Title: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: aldo_14 on August 10, 2006, 02:56:08 am
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060809/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_brazil_grenade

Nuff said.
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Rictor on August 10, 2006, 03:30:03 am
I smell a Darwin coming.
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: karajorma on August 10, 2006, 03:35:48 am
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but they also are investigating a possible link to Rio's heavily armed drug gangs who often raid military bases.


*Bumps Brazil up several places on the countries to invade first for world domination list*
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Mefustae on August 10, 2006, 03:59:54 am
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but they also are investigating a possible link to Rio's heavily armed drug gangs who often raid military bases.


*Bumps Brazil up several places on the countries to invade first for world domination list*
So, what's your updated list looking like?
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: IPAndrews on August 10, 2006, 04:14:24 am
<sees thread title. slaps hand to forehead. luckily no hand grenade in hand>
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Fineus on August 10, 2006, 04:28:55 am
I smell a Darwin coming.
QFT.
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 10, 2006, 05:04:59 am
For an Ex EOD sapper, this makes me feel like someone should engineer a pre-birth stupidity test to weed out this sort of thing before it happens.
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Wobble73 on August 10, 2006, 05:24:47 am
I've never been in the military, (apart from the army cadets in my youth), but I wouldn't know what a rocket propelled grenade looks like. I once ripped open the end of my finger though on some kind of detenator. I found it in the street, it looked like a torch, without the lens/bulb etc. A long black handle, a wider flat end and on the handle, a spring loaded switch type thing. I just walked up the street flicking the spring loaded bit back and forth, until I eventually pulled the switch to its full length and let go. The wider end blew with a deafening bang. Luckily I had the thing pointing down and away from me at the time, but I did have the index finger of my right hand on it which was slashed wide open. I dropped the thing very quickly and ran away. I was in Salford at the time and had to get a bus back to Bolton, (late night and the trains were off therefore a rail replacement bus was provided). By the time I got back to Bolton an hour later, my finger was still bleeding, so I went to A&E to have it stitched.

I rambled a bit haven't I? anyway my point is that although it sounds like a stupid thing to do, he might not have known what it was and therefore had no reason to suspect the thing was gonna blow up in his face!
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Kosh on August 10, 2006, 05:27:10 am
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but I wouldn't know what a rocket propelled grenade looks like.

I've seen plenty of them on American TV over the last few years......
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: karajorma on August 10, 2006, 06:37:45 am
Am I the only one who suspects that Wobble may have inadvertantly foiled an al-Queda plot of some kind? :D
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Wobble73 on August 10, 2006, 06:47:14 am
Way back then it would be more likely to have been IRA! :D
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: karajorma on August 10, 2006, 07:47:33 am
It doesn't matter. You're a hero to the people! :D
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Wobble73 on August 10, 2006, 07:53:19 am
 :lol: Why thank you ! ;)

And you Kaj are a hero to the HLPeople thanks to your FAQuickfire answers
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Alpha_Monkey on August 11, 2006, 10:23:56 pm
For an Ex EOD sapper, this makes me feel like someone should engineer a pre-birth stupidity test to weed out this sort of thing before it happens.


What kind of test were you thinking of exactly, inserting a grenade into the womb?

I'm not sure that'd go down too well.....
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Polpolion on August 11, 2006, 10:28:15 pm
Wouldn't an RPG be worth more as a missle than as scrap metal?
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: achtung on August 11, 2006, 10:31:08 pm
Wobble, I would've took it home.  :nervous:
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Mars on August 12, 2006, 12:19:07 am
Have many detonators lying around in the UK  :confused:
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Getter Robo G on August 12, 2006, 02:11:40 am
Ask the football teams (soccer)... I'm sure they'd be the first to know. :D
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: aldo_14 on August 12, 2006, 06:35:46 am
Ask the football teams (soccer)... I'm sure they'd be the first to know. :D

Eh?
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: kasperl on August 12, 2006, 07:21:21 am
Ask the football teams (soccer)... I'm sure they'd be the first to know. :D

I knew Man U vs Wolverhampton could be bad, but grenades? Damn, those blokes did upgrade...
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: KappaWing on August 13, 2006, 10:58:13 am
Heres what it looks like, Wobble.

(http://www.labournet.net/other/0503/gispec5.jpg)

Kind of hard to mistake it for something harmless.
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: aldo_14 on August 13, 2006, 12:16:28 pm
More specifically;

(http://www.parish-without-borders.net/cditt/deaf/ddp-trip-kcham/kcham3.jpg)
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: IceFire on August 13, 2006, 12:19:41 pm
Wow....thats definately a Darwin!
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 14, 2006, 07:02:22 am


(http://www.parish-without-borders.net/cditt/deaf/ddp-trip-kcham/kcham3.jpg)

PLUS

(http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/sledgehammer.jpg)

EQUALS

(http://loanet.mit.edu/exhibitions/mobilesound/img/headstone.jpg)



:rolleyes:
Title: Re: Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
Post by: Wobble73 on August 14, 2006, 07:32:15 am
More specifically;

(http://www.parish-without-borders.net/cditt/deaf/ddp-trip-kcham/kcham3.jpg)

Thanks for that, if I see one in the street I'll make sure to leave it alone!  :lol:

Incidentally, the detonator I found was on the main road up to Old Trafford, (Manchester Uniteds Football Stadium for those who don't know), I wonder if that had anything to do woth it? ;7