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2010-01-04 India-Pakistan

Pak cop dies while 'playing' with hand grenade

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 By "playing with" I assume they meant "pulling the pin and letting the spoon off". How else does a grenade explode?

And I like Mom's self-destruct as well. Hell, nobody to give her money now, so she might as well croak while the croaking is good.

Posted by gromky 2010-01-04 00:19|| 2010-01-04 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Why would a cop have or need a grenade? Oh, wait. This is Pakistan. Never mind...

Posted by PBMcL 2010-01-04 00:36|| 2010-01-04 00:36|| Front Page Top

#3 How else does a grenade explode?

Maybe they were playing "Hackey Sack" with it?

Posted by gorb 2010-01-04 12:28|| 2010-01-04 12:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Y'all are assuming that it's a modern, properly maintained grenade fresh out of an arsenal. Could be an old corroded piece of shit which had been sitting on some Eighties-era Afghan battlefield until somebody brought it home as a souvenir of their jihad vacation. Then it just went "boom" in his hands because he had been tossing it back and forth in a threatening manner. Seems like the sort of thing a dirty street cop would do while shaking down a street vendor.

No proof, of course, but that's how I'd write the scenario if somebody asked me to dramatize it.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-01-04 14:28|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-01-04 14:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Key to becoming an old soldier:

If you didn't put it there, don't pick it up!

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-04 14:30|| 2010-01-04 14:30|| Front Page Top

#6 They're too late for this year's Darwin Awards, but perhaps will do well next year.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-04 14:39|| 2010-01-04 14:39|| Front Page Top

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