Daily Darwin Award
I read the link wondering how they could accomplish this with a modern, functioning grenade. Of course a Reuters employee would not know anything about war or weapons. The pin is very, very hard to pull—funny, it seems much easier in combat. It’s a cotter pin with the ends usually splayed open for extra assurance.Then there’s a metal strip, called a spoon, running down the side that prevents the thing from beginning the 4.3 second countdown. And 4.3 seconds is a long time when you’re scared. The goal is to hold the grenade on the INSIDE of your hand so it isn’t released until you throw it. The spoon makes a loud SPROING when it’s released. Any sane person is
’n and gittin’ when he hears that. In the movies they also emit smoke, but I never stuck around long enough to verify that.
I suppose that an old grenade, lying around outside for 18 years could do anything ... or it might be some 50-year-old Slobovian model. We had ‘new’ grenades with defective ‘short’ fuses that blew almose immediately. And these was an instance of a grenade that had been carried and knocked around having its spoon cracked and detonating unexpectedly and disastrously..
These folk had to be drunk, stoned, crazy (duh), or there’s something we don’t know.
Posted by Oink
11/10/2005 at 06:48 AM
I think it’s time to sue the grenade manufacturers who apparenlty don’t have to obey government safety rules that even teddy bears have to meet!
Welcome, Duck. Most of those lawsuits would be on behalf the the victim’s estate. Even the ‘primitive’ weaponry of 40 years ago was deadly and overwhelmingly reliable. But those that failed to meet Zero Defect standards tend to stick in one’s memory. If one was merely a bystandard, that is.
I’ve seen a crate of mortar shells fall three decks and bounce harmlessly off the metal deck of the ship’s ammo cargo bay. The warhead is supposed to be armed only by the strong inertial force of the launch. And it worked, but watching that crate fall was the longest 30 seconds of my life.
Posted by Oink
11/10/2005 at 07:26 AM
Oink,
>>watching that crate fall was the longest 30 seconds of my life.
Ouch! Hope you enjoyed some good times while your life was flashing before your eyes lolOf course I was mocking the Brady Cramp-pain (or whatever they call themselves this week) and their fellow eediots in my post (My Kimber and Garand have all the safety mechanisms they need, thank you). I was certainly stupid at 20-21, but my lunkhead friends and I
were veritable geniuses compared to those morons.
Are we sure these kids weren’t Paleswinians in Bosnia on vacation?
Thanx, Duck. I had time to review good times, bad times, and I even caught up on my regretting.
My advice to all, which I should follow too: Every day, kiss your wife (husband girlfriend boyfriend main-squeeze --whomever) and tell him/her/it that you love them. Same for kids. Pet your dog, cat, ocelot and kiss them between their pointy ears. Thank your parents, in person or thru prayer.
That way, if it is that inevitable last day, you don’t unexpectedly run out of time.
Posted by Oink
11/10/2005 at 08:49 AM
Probably some old WWII or 1950’s Russkie grenade that they were playing with…
Darwin is proven right, once again.
Can we refer to this new game this “Bosnian Roulette” perhaps?
This certainly qualifies!
(France’s) Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said local authorities had been told to deport foreigners convicted so far for their roles.
A French anti-racism group, SOS-Racisme, called the measure illegal. The group’s president said he had asked France’s highest administrative body, the Council of State, to intervene.Posted by Oink
11/10/2005 at 10:29 AM
... hey ... ya recon we could get some of these Bosnians to teach this game to a few select ragheads?
We could even tell them that it is a cool new way to get to their 60 virgins!... I cou’da swore I typed 26 ... where the hell did that 60 come from? ... inflation maybe ...
LET’S GET OUR
TOGETHER ON THIS PEOPLE!
Not just you, Carguy. I’ve heard all sorts of numbers thrown around BMEWS for Virgins in Paradise.
I Google it at SEVENTY (70) Virgins. OK? Anyone disagree?
:rulez:
Posted by Oink
11/10/2005 at 02:11 PM
Okay ... Okay ... It’s official ( I guess) From now on, It’s 70 virgins. (man this is looking like a better deal all the time!)
Hey ... we’re talking about Mooosssllliiimmmsss here people. How many virgins would it take for you to blow .. yourself ... never mind ... there ain’t that many Moslim virgins in the world.
at that time of morning they must have been vampire
catch the grenade oxford graduates,
Bulldog
Good point, fellows, I missed that. I was once a juror on a drunk driving case. In addition to the other evidence, him being pulled over at 0200 hours Sunday didn’t help a bit. Guilty!
Posted by Oink
11/10/2005 at 09:32 PM
oink how many vampires
you seen at 12 noon?, i was on the jury to, in addition to other evidence, him not being able to come to court in daylight,plus having urm urm, he
was a guilty drunk driving vampire, in your case
Bulldog
Bull: You sure y’all speak English over yonder? Per line of posting, nobody sends me to Google more often than you.
Posted by Oink
11/10/2005 at 10:35 PM
oink you wait till the euros get here with there stupid languages then you will be busy, on google,
ps look out for vampires
Bulldog
I like how they made sure to mention ‘illegal weapon’ a couple times.
As if there is any other kind in Europe, right?
Posted by Wyrm
11/11/2005 at 01:17 AM
Send Al Gore, but let the Bosnians provide the “balls”. Perhaps we can send some others over to play catch too.
It also occurred to me that they
don’tdidn’t throw very far if one grenade got all thetossersplayers. No baseball prospects lost there.
11/10/2005 at 09:26 PM
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