The headlines I saw about this made it sound like an attack on these sheriff's I didn't realize they just fucked up a bomb disposal.
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lol same, years of passive voice whenever a cop kills someone leads to the obvious assumption when it's about them being killed
Shame that it wasn't a 
, but at the same time this is prime comedy right here
3 deputies passed away following an incident involving a rapid exothermic reaction
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The summary in cop speak is borderline illegible
Senior law enforcement officials said the LASD bomb squad responded to a garage in Santa Monica yesterday, where at least one grenade was found. It was transported to the training facility, where the deputies were working to render it safe, and the explosion occurred.
So these brain geniuses find a grenade, decide to render it "safe" and then blow themselves up in the process 🤔
Looney Tunes behavior
Turning three cops and a grenade into zero cops and zero grenades does render the situation safer though 
So these brain geniuses find a grenade, decide to render it "safe" and then blow themselves up in the process
I thought the way to render these things safe is to blow them up at a distance but i guess these guys were the experts, not me 
They 'rendered safe' like 40 lbs of homemmade fireworks and blew up an entire residential LA street a few years ago, so I'm glad they decided to take it to pig school before they did it this time
The funnier part is that they managed to transfer it elsewhere, obviously handling it, and it was fine until they started fucking with it
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
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They said on the news that this was the worst LASD single incident loss of life since 1800 something.. disgraceful and shameful and we all need to do better.
Their propaganda says their job is super dangerous but this is their worst disaster since before penicillin was invented. Which was 1928. So if the previous disaster's year was 1899 that's a minimum of 29 years without antibiotics and they still weren't dying more than 3 at a time. And that's when people could still die from touching poop.
There was probably a COVID superspreader event that killed more than 3 cops at one point.
I’m so sorry for the parking lot. I hope it can get fix asap and serve more for them 🙏🏼
And the grenade. It was probably just chilling, minding its own business when the coppers did what they do best and started harassing it.
Definitely, the grenade self defended itself.
GRENADE used SELFDESTRUCT
It's super effective!
Enemy PIGTRIO fainted!
7, 6 and 3 children, is it common for Mormons to be LAPD?
Mormons love that kind of gig. They're also really common in the FBI and other agencies AFAIK
They're spreading outward from Utah at the White Pharoah's command
Self suck training accident.
i hope the garage is okay
Why would the radical left do such a heinous crime.
Nah tho this is just punishment for the countless people LASD and LAPD maimed during last months peaceful demonstration.
Happy for their spouses and children
Maybe they needed more training before they went to that training.
False frag :kelly:
How tf does Los Angeles County have a sherrifs department? There are more people in that county than there are in half of the US states (individually). Where would the actual jurisdiction be that wasn't already a municipality? Do they just have a sherrif for a square yard of land around a street light somewhere?
lol
We were so good this year we got a summer christmas!
again? didnt this happen a few years ago?
hope it's only three so far!
It's weird how they interviewed someone, and then photoshopped the interviewee into an office.
lol owned
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