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Man Finds Hand Grenade, Decides to Pull Pin

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Man finds hand grenade and then pulls pin to see what happens. .. validating Charles Darwin’s theories.
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"Hey, Y'all! Watch this! ..."

Man, I love the Darwin Awards. ;-P
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Someone dropped a dummy grenade in the street and of course there was widespread panic pandemonium and chaos. I had one end of the street blocked and a buddy had the other end blocked while we were waiting on the bomb squad. A Lieutenant not from patrol division lived around the corner, came walking out to see what was going on and I swear, that idiot did not see it walking up to ask me what was going on an he kicked it like it was a pine cone in the street. This a**clown should never have been a cop anyway. Good thing it was a dummy grenade or that dummy would have been KIA
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Granddad apparently had some secrets...

And Dad apparently never watched Combat when he was a kid, or any old war movies... even my daughters knew in kindergarten, you pull the pin and then throw the damn thing.

And now his boys will live with the PTS for the rest of their lives. That, and knowing that their old man was a dumbass.
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Granddad apparently had some secrets...

And Dad apparently never watched Combat when he was a kid, or any old war movies... even my daughters knew in kindergarten, you pull the pin and then throw the damn thing.

And now his boys will live with the PTS for the rest of their lives. That, and knowing that their old man was a dumbass.
Right! Pull the pin! Throw the pin!
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This a**clown should never have been a cop anyway. Good thing it was a dummy grenade or that dummy would have been KIA
Yet there he is… with rank too. Way too much of this these days. People like that need to be exposed for exactly who and what they are.
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I find it reassuring.. They won't prove much of an obstacle.
Hollywood tells people that a hand grenade won't explode until it's in close proximity to the bad guys. It also tells people that a grenade will cause a massive orange fireball explosion. Most ordinary people have no idea how they actually work and what it looks like when one goes off.
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Someone survived to tell what actually happened? How do they know the story? Anyone close enough to know the exact details should have been killed.
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Wonder if he got a selfie with it before it blew. Or one last TikTok post.
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Hollywood - grenades explode in a huge ball of fire. EVERYTHING explodes in a huge ball of fire. Hollywood.
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There's dummy grenades and dummies with grenades.
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Sad story. Grenades are fine and safe IF you know what you are doing. Pull pin, HOLD SPOON as long as you want. Once spoon is released striker hits cap igniting the fuse which may be 6-8 seconds +-. We were taught to pul pin, release spoon, count to 3 and Throw frag. Smoke, or assorted gas grenades were fun….
Here’s one that you don’t see.

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Hollywood tells people that a hand grenade won't explode until it's in close proximity to the bad guys. It also tells people that a grenade will cause a massive orange fireball explosion. Most ordinary people have no idea how they actually work and what it looks like when one goes off.
well you can’t really watch a grenade go off due to the shrapnel from the explosion. If you can watch it then you are too far away to really see it good when it goes off. Myth busters don’t count as they are like 500 yards away and standing behind bullet proof glass.

Someone dropped a dummy grenade in the street and of course there was widespread panic pandemonium and chaos. I had one end of the street blocked and a buddy had the other end blocked while we were waiting on the bomb squad. A Lieutenant not from patrol division lived around the corner, came walking out to see what was going on and I swear, that idiot did not see it walking up to ask me what was going on an he kicked it like it was a pine cone in the street. This a**clown should never have been a cop anyway. Good thing it was a dummy grenade or that dummy would have been KIA
The Peter Principle comes to mind. This is the theory that people are promoted to a level of incompetence and then they stop being promoted. But sometimes it happens to entire organizations where everyone is promoted to their level of incompetence.
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Had a viewing bunker with good glass that could watch frags go off from about 10’, impressive.Agree hollywood has ruined and distorted everything.
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I find those things scary!! Along with Gatling guns and A-10’s. There are some things untrained folks should not have!
I can remember as a kid how track maintenance crews would routinely find grenades and mortar shells along track bed of a rail line running through town. During World War II, a city about 50-miles down the track had a munitions plant, and they shipped the munitions through our town to the Illinois Central main line. I always wondered if they just dumped those things in an open gondola car for shipment. The whole thing just screams, you can't fix stupid, many times nature does it for us.

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Hand grenade is a Ranger’s toy
I had one when I was a boy

What you gonna do when the commies come by?
Pop the pin and let it fly.

Oh my God, what a mess it made
My best friend Mister Hand Grande

Cuz I’m Airborne
All The Way
Every day.
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