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Blimey, evacuate a school for 2 hours and then blow up a hand grenade that posed no threat, PC gone wrong
Bomb scare at school after pupil brings in hand grenade - Yahoo! News UK
Blimey, evacuate a school for 2 hours and then blow up a hand grenade that posed no threat, PC gone wrong
Whatever next, controlled explosions to rid the world of pencils because the carbon in the "lead" has yet to be arranged in the same fashion as parts of a gun.
Really don't get why they blew it up. The bomb disposal people already determined that it had been deactivated.
Its kinda like shooting a dead body. Why?!
And the school were meant to know it was safe how? I agree blowing it up afterwards is daft but the intial action makes senseOriginally Posted by rad
Zombies....
Rule 2: Doubletap
CyberNerd (10th February 2011), jpaterson (10th February 2011), Little-Miss (10th February 2011), MK-2 (10th February 2011), Pyroman (11th February 2011)
Wow... First kids have knives, then they get guns, now grenades.
What next, tactical air strikes?
deactivated =/= safe
IIRC, deactivated just means pulling the pin out won't blow it up. It's still explosive though. One good whack would have levelled the school.
The grenade may not have been safe but it would take a very large grenade to level a school!
A grenade is basically a chunk of metal with a space in the middle for explosives and a detonator. The pattern is designed to make the body disintigrate into small chunks of metal. Without the middle section it is totally harmless, unless you hit some one with it. A grenade is designed mainly to maim someone or kill. Maiming generally puts 3 people out of action, the victim and 2 people to care for him. It also has a psychological effect on the rest of the group. It would not level a building but would take some large chunks out of it.
WW1 geek hat on : the grenade would have likely been a Mills bomb if it was a WW1 British grenade. More lethal as a fragmentation device rather than an explosive device.
Originals had a 7 second fuse. Plenty of time for the teacher to jump on top of the offending device and take a hit for the team (as per William McFadzean VC, 1st July 1916).
jpaterson (10th February 2011)
Surely they'd have rung for IT support to dive on it for them?
ascott2 (10th February 2011), kmount (10th February 2011), sister_annex (10th February 2011), synaesthesia (11th February 2011)
That made me chuckle.
would have rung IT first for advice on how to pull the pin out......
where's bruno mars when you need him?!!?
dont be so stupid. like you'd get a call to say come jump on a grenade. it'd be closer to
"erm theres a small explodey thing sat in my room and its not kabooming, can you see whats wrong"
Ah you see I find the staff are experts at randomly pulling things out - just not so good at putting them back in.
(Now I read that back it sounds worse than I imagined!)
Over exaggeration is my forté.
Also, buildings here are pretty badly made.
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