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The news keeps gassing this guys up as elite, yet they killed themselves in a low stress exercise.
Just read the details. These dumb fucks exposed three bomb squad members to the explosive radius of a grenade. 50% lethality at 5m if I recall correctly. Absolute clown behavior.
Ordnance is supposed to be cleared by EOD. Bomb squads get like 12 weeks training. EOD training is like 18 months.
hey asshole, defuse this!
*throws grenade at highly trained specialist*
Me very professionally turning in the grenade I found to the bomb squad boys:
I just can't for the life of me understand why they would do this
Like the grenade wasn't blowing up therefore it was "safe" already what would possess them to fuck with it
Because cops are dumb as shit and they most likely did not receive training on how to deal with the unique hazards grenades posses.
If I had to guess what happened,I'd say they probably tried to dispose of it by pulling the pin and throwing it. The grenade probably then went off immediately because they either mis identified it as a time delay grenade or the grenade was decayed and the time delay fuze didn't work properly. That or they tried to unscrew the fuze from the body and some friction ignited the delay chemical.
LASD's highly sophisticated plan to dispose of the explosive ordinance
I'm very ignorant, why would anyone want a grenade to explode immediately? I thought they all had some delay.
For use with trip wires or as a booby traps. Most grenades are designed to use a variety of fuzes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGD-5
This article has an example.
From my experience most incendiary grenades don't have a time delay either. They're meat to be put on an item for destruction, pin pulled, and then leave. We used to set them off remotely by placing a blasting cap under the spoon after pulling the pin and taping down the spoon.
Generally, a grenade that explodes immediately with no delay would be useful for trapping an area. I can't think of any other uses off the top of my head. It could also have been an old or incorrectly installed fuse in the grenade.
Not advice
Think of a doorway of an indoor area. Take the grenade, hold the lever, pull the safety pin, and slip it into a tin can. Wedge the can somewhere near the doorway out of sight. The can holds the lever in place which keeps the primer from igniting the fuse. Now tie some clear fishing line to the grenade itself and make a trip wire across the doorway low to the ground. Now, if the wire gets kicked, it pulls the grenade out of the can and it instantly explodes rather than a 3~5 second delay.That's so funny lol
Maybe they were doing shooting practice by throwing it in the air to see if they could hit it
They were taking the final. You have to defuse the live grenade within 30 seconds to leave the room.