Man dies opening grenade with sledgehammer

[ECH1969]

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060809/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_brazil_grenade

[soothsayer]

1. Well, I guess he got it open.

[bullimiami]

ha ha.

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[Blue Fire]

25. Hopefully he did this before he had a chance to breed

and pass his stoopid genes to another generation. BTW, are there any * relatives living in Brazil? This level of idiocy sounds somewhat familiar!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. with a sledge?

I use a sledge on my anvil, but only with red hot steel.
what an absolutely ineffably and totally STUPID thing to so.

[slackmaster]

6. Yes, he clearly should have used a ball pien hammer

[John Q. Citizen]

12. A Darwin award nominee!

[aquart]

28. Clearly. Maybe even a winner.

[slackmaster]

3. Not to take too much levity in a tragic death, but

I have to wonder if he was planning to write "Dud" on the grenade had it NOT exploded.

[Richardo]

20. Bugs Bunny cartoons were a great education, weren't they?

That was the first thing I thought of, too. :D

[ronnykmarshall]

4. How do you say "Hey y'all watch this" ...

in Brazilian Portuguese?

[Richard Steele]

5. Alert the good folks at the Darwin Awards site!

That's a winner right there!

[Rex]

7. 1st place blue ribbon winner!

A sledgehammer and an active grenade, can't get much worse/better than that IMO!

[kurth]

8. Another Darwin Award nominee

R.I.P.

[kurth]

9. delete dup

[ClintonTyree]

10. At first.......

I thought there was one less freeper in the world but then I read it was in Brazil. :shrug: Oh well, I guess there's "brazillions" of freeper types all over the world.

[tridim]

11. Wasn't there an old Bugs Bunny cartoon

Where he was a bomb tester, hitting shells with a hammer and writing "dud" on ones that didn't go off?

[derby378]

14. "And just think - in 30 years, I can retire!"

DINK!

[MountainLaurel]

26. Oh dear heavens

My coworkers and I were just discussing that 'toon today!

[Tace]

13. People With Rocket-Propelled Grenades Do These Kinds Of Things

It has to do with the mentality of people who have rocket-propelled grenades.

[Renew Deal]

17. You'll have to pry my RPG's from my cold dead hands

:nuke:

[slackmaster]

22. Naw, it was the hammer

If not for the hammer that RPG round would still be sitting around harmlessly.

Ban hammers now.

For the children.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Had to be a PNAC weapons expert.

Nobody else but a chickenhawk knows such a little bit about military weaponry, that they'd do something that stupid.! WEll, I guess it could have been Joe LIEberman.

[longship]

16. Another Darwin Award Winner!!!

Some nutjobs do such stoopid things to take themselves out of the gene pool.

[LibertyLover]

18. Ding! ding! ding! ding! ding!

Darwin Award nominee!

Actually I shouldn't be so flip. This may have been a small workshop in one of the favelas and they were trying to recycle found items into usable and saleable objects. If I am remembering correctly a number of years ago there was a nasty problem with radiation contaminated objects in a barrio in Mexico. A hospital's x-ray equipment had been dumped, literally at the dump and the metal was re-fabricated into bowls and plates,IIRC. These were sold cheaply to the barrio's residents, many of whom became ill and there were some deaths.

[YDogg]

19. Man, that had to leave a mark.

Ouch.

[genieroze]

21. If he were American he would be a * supporter.

[OzarkDem]

32. Like those guys who wrangle rattlesnakes

http://www.freerrattlesnake.com/

[underpants]

23. Damn! (gets out pencil, makes line on "to do" list)

That pretty much opens up my Saturday afternoon.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

24. yep...but Darwin already has one Grenade-Artist...

sounds like a Darwin finalist to me...sorry he died but, COME ON...hitting an explosive with a hammer??? just damn...

sP


http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2005-09.html

[americanstranger]

27. Too bad.

Had he lived, he would have had a future working for Bolton at the UN.

- as

[EstimatedProphet]

29. There are literally no words to express how stupid that is.

I wonder how he figured out which end of the hammer to use.

[sarge43]

30. It's called a TSTL discharge

Too stupid to live

[AnnieBW]

31. A Brazillion Pieces

Did he blow himself into a brazillion pieces?

Better yet, was his name Arzt? "You got a piece of Arzt on you..." (Hurley in "Lost")