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Wow... First kids have knives, then they get guns, now grenades.

 

What next, tactical air strikes?

 

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?!

 

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.

Fatmas

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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!

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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.

 

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.

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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).

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jcollings

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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).

 

Surely they'd have rung for IT support to dive on it for them?

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MK-2

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where's bruno mars when you need him?!!?

 

 

 

Surely they'd have rung for IT support to dive on it for them?

 

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"

jcollings

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would have rung IT first for advice on how to pull the pin out......

 

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!)

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The grenade may not have been safe but it would take a very large grenade to level a school!

 

Over exaggeration is my forté.

 

Also, buildings here are pretty badly made.

jdoyle

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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!)

 

;-)

 

 

along the same theme, they pulled a torpedo out of the drink the other day that was floating on the surface in a shipping lane. Found it to be safe and gave it to one of the coastguards to keep...... Quota of big bangs for the already used up....

 

Torpedo floated near shipping lane - National News - Armley Today

Fatmas

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Over exaggeration is my forté.

 

Also, buildings here are pretty badly made.

 

If it's a new build it's probably made of paper and PVA glue so a firecracker would probably cause the place to collapse.

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probably made of paper and PVA glue so a firecracker would probably cause the place to collapse.

 

HEEEEEEEEEEY... you've been to my area.

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would have rung IT first for advice on how to pull the pin out......

 

Wait a minute, what's this round thing on my desk with a post-it saying "Fix please" stuck to it?

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Heh. Long long ago (before even uk.education.schools-it) Someone lobbed a grenade into a computer suite where I was working. After pausing for a heartbeat to consider my options I tossed it into the server room and waited.

 

Not much happened. But given who lobbed it my pulse was racing for a while.

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Heh. Long long ago (before even uk.education.schools-it) Someone lobbed a grenade into a computer suite where I was working. After pausing for a heartbeat to consider my options I tossed it into the server room and waited.

 

Not much happened. But given who lobbed it my pulse was racing for a while.

 

I had to check your location image wasn't "Baghdad" then.

psydii

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a nut job student who had a history of turning up with weapons that had at some point been live. Occasionally they still were. Intellectually I *knew* it was just a shell, however a small (but loud) part of me had some doubts. Better safe than sorry I figured.

 

For the record at that point I was his peer rather than in a position of authority.

AngryTechnician

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Heh. Long long ago (before even uk.education.schools-it) Someone lobbed a grenade into a computer suite where I was working. After pausing for a heartbeat to consider my options I tossed it into the server room and waited.

 

Any self-respecting Network Manager would have gladly dived ONTO the grenade rather than let it take out their servers! For shame, sir, FOR SHAME.

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