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Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer
reuters ^ | Aug 8 2006

Posted on 08/09/2006 12:23:06 PM PDT by Mount Athos

A Brazilian man died on Tuesday when he tried to open what police believe was a rocket-propelled grenade with a sledgehammer in a mechanical workshop on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

Another man who was in the workshop at the time of the explosion was rushed to a hospital with severe burns, a police officer told Reuters. The workshop was destroyed and several cars parked outside caught fire.

Police found several unexploded army issue rocket-propelled grenades in the workshop. They believe the ammunition had been brought there by scavengers wanting to sell them as scrap metal, but they also are investigating a possible link to Rio's heavily armed drug gangs who often raid military bases.


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To: Mount Athos

BUSH's FAULT!


41 posted on 08/09/2006 12:41:34 PM PDT by Don'tMessWithTexas
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To: Mount Athos

"Oh let me be....your sledgehammer..."

42 posted on 08/09/2006 12:42:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: murdoog
And after that, they need to retire the Darwin Award. Who can top this one?

This was a runner up. Notice how the fish couldn't be pulled out of his throat because the fish scales + fins prevented it.

Fish Swallower Chokes To Death

VIBURNUM, Mo. (AP) -- A man who apparently had spent the day drinking with friends choked to death trying to swallow a live, 5-inch fish.

Todd Poller's friends reported hearing the 45-year-old yell: "Hey, watch this," before he grabbed a perch from the water and dropped it headfirst into his mouth. Iron County Sheriff Alan Mathes said Poller choked and gasped as his friends tried to dislodge the fish. He was pronounced dead when emergency crews arrived.

An autopsy found Poller died from asphyxiation from having the fish lodged in his throat. Aside from choking, Poller suffered lacerations to the inside of his throat from the fish's fins.

(Associated Press Thursday, May 17, 2001)

 


43 posted on 08/09/2006 12:42:57 PM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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To: Mount Athos
Everybody on this thread is stoopid. Everybody knows that you need to smack TWO grenades together to get them open. I'm ashamed of some of the comments above mine.
44 posted on 08/09/2006 12:43:37 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Renkluaf
All real Darwin Awards must be given posthumously

Criteria are as follows.

  1.  Candidate must die. Hospitiliztion is not good enough
  2.  Expiration must be primarily fault of candidate
  3. If progeny exist, must expire with candidate

 The article did not specify if condition 3 was satisfied to the satisfaction of the Father.

45 posted on 08/09/2006 12:43:40 PM PDT by zeugma (I reject your reality and substitute my own in its place. (http://www.zprc.org/))
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To: Mount Athos

I want to be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name
Youd better call the sledgehammer
Put your mind at rest
Im going to be the sledgehammer
This can be my testimony
I'm your sledgehammer
Let there be no doubt about it

(my apologies to Peter Gabriel)


46 posted on 08/09/2006 12:45:20 PM PDT by NRA1995 (Zarqawi died, liberals cried....)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
what if one of those damaged cars parked outside had been yours? That would have ruined my whole day

Funny you should mention. Last night the lady across the street backed her car into my minivan parked in front. Knocked the front end six feet across the sidewalk onto my lawn.

47 posted on 08/09/2006 12:45:25 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: dighton

LOL!!!


48 posted on 08/09/2006 12:46:50 PM PDT by TomServo ("Uh, Donner, party of three please.")
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To: ElkGroveDan

You're lucky this wasn't an unconventional immigrant doing one of the jobs Americans don't want to do - you'd be SOL.


49 posted on 08/09/2006 12:47:48 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Mount Athos

Wasn't it in Brazil where some scrap company got a Cesium-137 irradiator from a hospital, opened it up, and let the local kids play with the glow-in-the-dark powder they found inside?

At least in this case relatively few people were hurt, though I feel for the guy's family.


50 posted on 08/09/2006 12:49:00 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Mount Athos

Guess he won't be running as an Independent Democrat.


51 posted on 08/09/2006 12:49:31 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Mount Athos

"Hey Manuel, watch this..."


52 posted on 08/09/2006 12:49:32 PM PDT by MissEdie
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

She's Chinese. But her daughter called me today and assured me they are insured.


53 posted on 08/09/2006 12:49:40 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: DBrow

That does sound about right - guess the gene pool could use a little thinning out down there.


54 posted on 08/09/2006 12:50:54 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Mr. Jazzy
How do you say "Here, hold ma' beer!" in Portuguese?

I don't know. Next time I am in Framingham, a/k/a Little Rio, I will ask.

55 posted on 08/09/2006 12:50:56 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: tdewey10

"I think this one's a winner."

Yeah, this one's gonna be hard to top, unless someone slams the trigger on a nuke.


56 posted on 08/09/2006 12:52:56 PM PDT by toddlintown (IT)
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To: Mount Athos

No video for the posthumus Darwin Awards nominations?


57 posted on 08/09/2006 12:55:13 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Protagoras; youngjim; Mount Athos; martin_fierro

58 posted on 08/09/2006 12:55:22 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: RichInOC
Yes, but did he get the RPG open?

No, his save-card was bad. ;)
59 posted on 08/09/2006 12:56:20 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.)
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To: Mount Athos

Two songs come to mind..."If I had a hammer" and "My ding-a-ling". A Darwin nominee for sure.


60 posted on 08/09/2006 12:58:53 PM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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