How not to test a hand grenade...

Cass · Post by **Cass** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:54 pm

drunken German who bought three hand grenades at a flea market in Bosnia has been arrested after throwing one out of the window to see whether it worked. The 36-year-old took the three hand grenades home to Frankfurt as souvenirs where he kept them in a drawer for ten years.

But after drinking heavily with friends he showed one of them the explosive devices and decided to pull the pin on one after his pals claimed they did not believe they were real.

The grenade exploded between two blocks of flats and police who quickly traced the man thanks to eye-witnesses seized the two other unexploded grenades.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1265480.html?menu=

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:06 pm

>>^..^ drunken German who bought three hand grenades at a flea market in Bosnia has been arrested after throwing one out of the window to see whether it worked. The 36-year-old took the three hand grenades home to Frankfurt as souvenirs where he kept them in a drawer for ten years.

But after drinking heavily with friends he showed one of them the explosive devices and decided to pull the pin on one after his pals claimed they did not believe they were real.

The grenade exploded between two blocks of flats and police who quickly traced the man thanks to eye-witnesses seized the two other unexploded grenades.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1265480.html?menu= Should be locked up Hun

Cass · Post by **Cass** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:27 pm

capt_buzzard wrote: Should be locked up Hun
who, me? :-2

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:31 pm

I'm sensing a future "Darwin Awards" candidate...

Hawke · Post by **Hawke** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:48 pm

"Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

-Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

/Couldn't resist.