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Tamaulipas: Bad Guys Attack PGJE Offices with Grenade
2010-10-05
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Armed suspects riding in a sedan threw a grenade against the offices of Tamaulipas' Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado in Matamoros Monday, say Mexican news reports.

The attack took place at about 1300 hrs near the intersection of Avenida del Maestro and Bulevar Manuel Cavazos Lerma where armed suspects fired on elements of the Policia Preventiva, and then threw a hand grenade against the PGJE offices.

The grenade did not detonate because the fuse was not in the grenade. The attackers then fled the area. Their vehicle was later found abandoned with the fuse of the grenade left in the passenger front seat.

No one was reported hurt in the attack.

The last hand grenade attack took place late last month when a grenade detonated at the city offices of Matamoros. Two unidentified female passers-by were wounded in that attack.
Posted by:badanov

#3  KFB?
Posted by: Abu do you love   2010-10-05 23:51  

#2  I have read of two such incidents of hand grenades being thrown but with the fuse not installed. One was in May at Mexican Federal police quarters in downtown Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.

My guess is that a team is assigned the task of throwing the grenade and is given the grenade and the fuse separate for transportation purposes. Then they are instructed to assemble the grenade and then KFB.
Posted by: badanov   2010-10-05 16:59  

#1  The hysterical laughter in this part of Canuckistan will probably continue for the entire day because of the following sentence:

"The grenade did not detonate because the fuse was not in the grenade."

So why not throw a goodly sized rock? At least it might have a sharp edge or two.

Oh. Wait. . . . "with the fuse of the grenade left in the passenger front seat." AH HA!!! Now I understand.

What we have here are Bad Guys who are (take your choice or favourite combinations): ADHD, dumb, dumber, forgetful, easily distracted from the task at hand, perhaps leftists making a anti-weaponry point and/or seniors like me with a horrible memory.

And I think I'm having a bad day when I can't find where I've left my car keys.

Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2010-10-05 12:35  

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