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| Pak cop dies while 'playing' with hand grenade |
| 2010-01-04 |
| A policeman died and two of his friends were injured when a grenade he was "playing" with went off on Sunday. City Police Officer (CPO) Rao Muhammad Iqbal told Daily Times that Constable Asad Naseem was "playing" with a hand grenade at his friend's shop in Ghausia Market when it went off. He said the constable died, while two of his friends -- identified as Asad Mehmood and Talat -- were wounded. The CPO said he had ordered an inquiry into the explosion. He ruled out that it was a terrorist attack. Asad's 65-year-old mother died of shock when she was told that her son had been killed in an explosion. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #3 How else does a grenade explode? Maybe they were playing "Hackey Sack" with it? |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-01-04 12:28 |
| #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 |
| #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 |