Author Topic: Darwin Award Candidate? (Read 392 times)

Shuckins · « **on:** November 18, 2003, 11:17:14 PM »

A thief in Cambodia accosted a drug dealer by pulling the pin on a hand-grenade and demanding drugs. The dealer complied with the demand. The thief siezed the drugs, then turned to run to his motorbike, placing the grenade in his pants pocket...

...without replacing the pin.

He didn't make it.

Regards, Shuckins

Tarmac · « **Reply #1 on:** November 18, 2003, 11:51:07 PM »

Yep.

Saw a video of a SWAT cop who put a flashbang back in his pocket. Blew the hell out of his pants, and burned him pretty badly IIRC. A real grenade must have made quite a mess.

mrblack · « **Reply #2 on:** November 19, 2003, 12:19:00 AM »

Gunslinger · « **Reply #3 on:** November 19, 2003, 03:41:26 AM »

Hell I remember doin MOUT training (urban combat) and it hurt like hell when a training grenade went off by your boot. It had a fircracker charge in it a little smaller than an M80. I cant imagine a flash bang.....wont even talk about the mess of a live one.

Charon · « **Reply #4 on:** November 19, 2003, 08:29:58 AM »

I remember a report from Gulf War 1 where a soldier picked up an unexploded cluster munition as a souvenir and put it in a cargo pocket. It exploded while he was walking back to his vehicle, killing him and wounding a few others as I recall.

[edit: I was young and stupid once ( at least the young part has changed), and did some work around carcinogens from time to time without wearing the proper equipment because it was "too hot and uncomfortable." But an unexploded munition... WTF is the thought process?]

Charon