Sometimes (well a lot of times actually) ......
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| Hand Grenade Myth - It Takes Some Effort |
..... you have to wonder at the stupidity of some of the human race.
47-year-old Bryan Niedert and his two kids, an 18-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were going through granddads garage storage (I assume that he had passed or had gone in to a home) in Lakes of the Four Seasons, a gated community of about 7,300 residents in Indiana. One of the three discovered his war-time (again I assume Korea or Vietnam), souvenirs.
Amongst them was a hand grenade with the pin still in it .... alarm bells? No, apparently not because according to the sheriff office statement ... someone reportedly pulled the pin on the grenade, on purpose (as it takes some real effort - deliberately, to stop them going off on soldiers belts) and it detonated.
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| US and UK Korean War Hand Grenades |
All three were injured, but Bryan Niedert was killed (so I assume he was holding the grenade), whilst the two children were transported to a local hospital with shrapnel wounds, but were expected to live.
While in the Ukraine, a 39 year old Ukrainian Major, Hennadiy Chastyakov, a close aide of the head of Ukraine's armed forces Valery Zaluzhny, was given presents from his colleagues which included live ammunition and hand grenades (why live weapons? only a Ukrainian military could answer - see other posts). He had returned to his flat with the presents, and was opening them with his 13 year old son when the grenade exploded.
Apparently the boy had picked up the grenade and was fiddling with the ring pin ... his father grabbed it, but succeeded only in pulling it from the grenade which then exploded, killing Major Chastyakov, and leaving his son severely injured.
Now I don't know about you, but if I found a hand grenade with the pin still in it would I:
- Put it down carefully and inform the police, or
- Pick it up and pull the pin out, then let go of the safety trigger (It appears that US Korean war hand grenades had a safety trigger .... UK grenades also had a side trigger, so for both, you could put the pin back if you hadn't let the trigger spring)?
Hmmm ..... let me think .... ah yes, Option 1 .... especially as one explosive expert at a similar basement 'granddad souvenir find' remarked to the finder that “if you were to pull the pin and throw all 4 of these, probably two of them would detonate properly, and a third would explode as soon as you pulled the pin”
Nature has its way of weeding us out ......
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