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| Accidental Blast Injures Two "Experts" in Manila |
| 2003-09-11 |
| Two police bomb experts were wounded when a sample explosive blew up during a bomb detection seminar for airport employees on Thursday, an official said. In my training sessions, this would be known as a "attention getter". One of the officers apparently triggered the device accidentally, said Teresa Gaerlan, an information officer with the Manila International Airport Authority. No shit! About 50 airport employees were at the seminar and one was injured when many fled in panic after the bomb went off, shattering windows and partly bringing down its ceiling. One of the officers lost two fingers and suffered ear and forehead injuries. An airport operations officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said seminar organizers had brought in grenades, dynamite and other explosive chemicals to the seminar. Er, haven’t these guys heard of the concept of using "simulated" explosives? He said the seminar was supposed to be for airport security awareness for civilian employees, mainly to help them handle telephoned bomb threats and deal with unattended packages. I’d say "Kids, leave this sort of thing to professionals", but... |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 We have seen this dozens of times in Buggs Bunny movies: "And never, never, never do this (removes the safety while talking) when you hold a grenade" Kaboom. |
| Posted by: JFM 2003-9-11 10:25:00 AM |