Grenade kills dad

[warbrds]

The topic of finding old stuff

Grandfather’s grenade kills dad, injures kids

https://abcnews.go.com/US/father-dead-2 ... d=99506598

Very sad

[dpcd67]

What did they think would happen when you pull the pin on a live grenade? I've done it a hundred times at least. You don't want to be close.
The news called it a Relic. In reality, it was an illegal DD and was stolen from the Army buy an idiot. Sadly, the two children suffered the consequences.

[Klaas]

This is one for the "Darwin Awards"

[AZ Jeff]

And the media posts an image of a PRACTICE grenade (fuze at least) just to muddy the waters more. Yah...

Jeff Q.
AZ

[dpcd67]

It might be hard to post a picture of the actual grenade used in the "incident"!

[GUNNUT in Iowa]

It might be hard to post a picture of the actual grenade used in the "incident"!

They could have asked me. I have a couple of the "real" ones in my collection (inert, of course) and even fragments of a "real" one.

I suppose the idea was that if you see "something like this" don't mess with it . . . if you don't know what you are doing. I use that same bit of information, when I am explaining about a German WWI "Potato Masher" grenade that was reported to me after being found under a front porch in this vicinity of the state.

Civilian folks don't understand that military "simulators" are often times extremely dangerous. They are "simulators" - not the real thing. On the other hand a "simulator" for an artillery projectile or a nuclear detonation is still a pretty dangerous thing.

[dpcd67]

Yes, the white artillery simulators will blow your hand off. I think they would make a good grenade if the case was iron.

[cvairwerks]

We had some excitement in our office a bunch of years back. An AIM-9 with a live seeker head had been shipped to me for a live, captive flight test. Unfortunately the goobers that crated it, left two words off the stenciling.....It was supposed to have "Live Seeker Head", but they omitted the words "Seeker Head". I carefully opened the crate and really got weirded out, as there were no inert bands visible on the body. It appeared that they had shipped me a complete, live missile. Lots of careful unpacking and removal of the upper guillotine supports, we found the bands....right where the supports were, holding the missile in the crate. There was a long telecon about idiots not following shipping instructions or labeling requirements.