That was nice of Grandpa... he didn't want his son to just fade away into obscurity, die a slow quiet death in bed like he did. Instead he left his son a little heirloom so he would go out with a bang!. 
Man Finds Hand Grenade, Decides to Pull Pin
Man finds hand grenade and then pulls pin to see what happens. .. validating Charles Darwin’s theories.
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Although I have been told that growing up watching Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner cartoons would make me grow up to be a violent person these cartoons somehow failed miserably in that task.
One things these cartoons did teach me was what would happen if the pin was pulled on a hand grenade.
One things these cartoons did teach me was what would happen if the pin was pulled on a hand grenade.
I had a lot of experience with grenades when I was a kid. A firecracker or a cherry bomb stuck inside one of the sour apples from the trees that dotted the neighborhood when I was a kid. They were aces playing army. The only thing was that you had to have a second soldier to light it. Cigarette lighters were outlawed by the Metsorovian convention of 1962. Plus if they went missing parents would notice. Surprisingly enough casualty counts were light. And of course casualties were underreported at any rate. Can not let the parents know what we were doing.
That warning label needs to be in at least three languages!It's because of people like this that cause it to be necessary to put warning labels on pizza boxes.
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It worries me that kids these days don't know the dangers of an anvil falling from the sky.Although I have been told that growing up watching Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner cartoons would make me grow up to be a violent person these cartoons somehow failed miserably in that task.
One things these cartoons did teach me was what would happen if the pin was pulled on a hand grenade.
Pfft... never look down, while running...
And, never, ever RUN into an apparent TUNNEL!
And, never, ever RUN into an apparent TUNNEL!
There was a story in the news a few years back about a young man who was lighting fireworks with friends on the Fourth of July, and naturally they were drinking. The man decided to put the mortar stand on his head and light it off. It literally blew his head off. Sadly the single most common "last words" phrase uttered these days is either "watch this" or "hold my beer".I had a lot of experience with grenades when I was a kid. A firecracker or a cherry bomb stuck inside one of the sour apples from the trees that dotted the neighborhood when I was a kid. They were aces playing army. The only thing was that you had to have a second soldier to light it. Cigarette lighters were outlawed by the Metsorovian convention of 1962. Plus if they went missing parents would notice. Surprisingly enough casualty counts were light. And of course casualties were underreported at any rate. Can not let the parents know what we were doing.
Now if only Hollywood would explode in a big ball of fire.Hollywood - grenades explode in a huge ball of fire. EVERYTHING explodes in a huge ball of fire. Hollywood.
Or let the San Andreas Fault work it's magic..Now if only Hollywood would explode in a big ball of fire.
A friend of mine, normally pretty savvy about guns and such, had a "cannon" made out of thick-walled steel tubing welded to a heavy steel base plate. It was designed for black powder. We used to put a yellow pages phone book (when they printed those) on the top of the tube, light it off and enjoy the confetti shower that followed.There was a story in the news a few years back about a young man who was lighting fireworks with friends on the Fourth of July, and naturally they were drinking. The man decided to put the mortar stand on his head and light it off. It literally blew his head off. Sadly the single most common "last words" phrase uttered these days is either "watch this" or "hold my beer".
One 4th of July he ran out of black powder and substituted smokeless (I wasn't there). Big, BIG mistake. That cannon exploded like a grenade, sending chunks of shrapnel through his neighborhood. Luckily, no one was injured--at least physically. BTW, this same friend almost cut his own leg off with a chainsaw while trimming firewood from fallen trees. Some people are their own worst enemy.
Failure of the education system - home AND school. When I grew up guys learned in shop class not to do stuff like that LONG BEFORE they get married and raise a family. Now they grow up and learn practically nothing requiring wisdom, caution or logic. You should have seen my high school shop instructors. They were all ex-military and didn't play games with tools or furnaces or power equipment. You learned or you didn't make it through school. But one student was killed in my 11th grade shop class by another kid "fooling around" with a 70 psi compressed air hose. It was supposed to be mechanically limited to 15 psi. They folded up the entire industrial arts department shortly thereafter. I was shocked and angry that my classmates could be that and stupid reckless. I have never had any tolerance whatsoever for horseplay since.
Wonders will never cease! One for the books, for sure!
Find grenade, pull pin, it explodes. Yep that’ll happen every time.
That pizza box reminds me of what I noticed on a cardboard packaging sleeve for a fan belt. Step One on the installation instructions was: "Turn Off Engine"
That would take all the challenge out of replacing it. 🤣That pizza box reminds me of what I noticed on a cardboard packaging sleeve for a fan belt. Step One on the installation instructions was: "Turn Off Engine"
I consider myself to be a pretty rational man. I gotta say though, if I find a grenade, there's going to be a little part of me that wants to make it go boom. As safely as possible of course....
I can understand how someone who had been through any of the wars might want a grenade. Maybe one saved him and friends, and the world is an uncertain place. More so these days than in a long time. You would think, that if only by crafted war stories he would have prepared them with grenade info. People routinely do it with guns.
You can pull the pin as long you don't release the spoon it will not detonate.
You can pull the pin as long you don't release the spoon it will not detonate.
Ya forgot the "hold my beer" part! 😂🍺"Hey, Y'all! Watch this! ..."
Man, I love the Darwin Awards. ;-P
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