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Poland's top cop set off grenade launcher by accident
AP ^ | 17 Dec 2022 | AP

Posted on 12/17/2022 7:08:15 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT

Poland's top police official told a radio broadcaster that a grenade launcher that was a present from Ukrainian officials accidentally exploded while he was moving it in his office this week.

The explosion occurred on Wednesday morning at national police headquarters in Warsaw. Amid media reporters speculating on the incident, the Interior Ministry issued a statement on Thursday saying that a gift from Ukraine had exploded, and that Szymczyk and another person suffered minor injuries.

RMF FM, citing police officials, said Szymczyk received two used anti-tank grenade launchers as presents during a recent visit to Ukraine. There were no other details, but the report suggested that neither the Ukrainians nor the Poles believed the launchers had any explosive potential. One had been transformed into a loudspeaker.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: holdmyzubr; notportland; oops
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NOT-Portland... It says POLAND!

In a confined space! GUARANTEED HEARING LOSS!

1 posted on 12/17/2022 7:08:15 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Is a grenade launcher going off inside an office a bad thing ??

I’m glad no one was killed, but it’s funny like keystone cops.


2 posted on 12/17/2022 7:10:09 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Johnny Kerry got a purple heart, probably the same one Jo Jo gave to his “uncle”, after he shot himself in the ass with an M-79 grenade launcher.


3 posted on 12/17/2022 7:13:39 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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To: srmanuel

Alec Baldwinski


4 posted on 12/17/2022 7:16:21 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Have you seen the grenade launcher yhe Ukranians gave me? Here, hold my Zubr!”


5 posted on 12/17/2022 7:16:45 AM PST by ameribbean expat (The object of life is...to avoid finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -Aurelius)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It reads like a “Florida Man” news story.


6 posted on 12/17/2022 7:17:48 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

There’s a Polish joke there somewhere.


7 posted on 12/17/2022 7:18:31 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: hardspunned

Now that’s funny too...

BTW, who gives grenade launchers as gifts ?? Especially with a live round still in it.


8 posted on 12/17/2022 7:20:36 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Confirms what I have always known, Police Chiefs are chosen
based purely on politics.
They were never good or smart officers and come from the
batch of “yes men” at the bottom of the barrel.


9 posted on 12/17/2022 7:22:46 AM PST by VicVanleeuwenhoek
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To: srmanuel

Never look a gift grenade launcher in the mouth.

Sounds like the prefect gift.


10 posted on 12/17/2022 7:24:32 AM PST by cyclotic (Follow 1776rm.com. Fighting for our Constitution. @1776RM on Truth)
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To: cyclotic

Nicely done!


11 posted on 12/17/2022 7:31:24 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
A grenade goes off in an office and doesn't destroy everyone and everything?


12 posted on 12/17/2022 7:35:34 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

So how does a grenade ‘launcher’ blow up? Maybe if a round was left loaded in it like an m79, but if it was an rpg the grenade is external to the launcher. Just puzzling wording. If no one hurt it had to have been a small grenade like an m79 and blew up behind something that absorbed the blast/shrapnel. Guaranteed that hearing loss and tinnitus is going great guns with the folks that were in that office.


13 posted on 12/17/2022 7:43:46 AM PST by redcatcherb412
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To: DUMBGRUNT

That’s called a “Desk Pop”…


14 posted on 12/17/2022 7:53:14 AM PST by EEGator
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—”A grenade goes off in an office and doesn’t destroy everyone and everything?”

Usually, they are an anti-tank devices with an HE-directed charge (AKA shaped charge) that focus most of the force on a small spot. A small hole penetrating and spewing very hot, high-velocity bits of steel can totally ruin your day and your tank.

Yes, a considerable reward blast would shred body parts and office furnture.


15 posted on 12/17/2022 7:58:09 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I can’t speak for others here, but I certainly wouldn’t send a live grenade to someone as a gift.


16 posted on 12/17/2022 8:03:55 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 10 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Well, it is a ‘gift’ that Poland will remember, and for quite a long time.


17 posted on 12/17/2022 8:04:53 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 10 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Szymczyk received two used anti-tank grenade launchers as presents.

Now he knows why


18 posted on 12/17/2022 8:11:49 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: hardspunned

Good one LOL


19 posted on 12/17/2022 8:12:07 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Libloather

I was told as a kid 1ea M-80 = 1/4 stick of dynamite.


20 posted on 12/17/2022 8:12:45 AM PST by MachIV
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