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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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To: srmanuel
"...who gives grenade launchers as gifts ?"

...and it was a used grenade launcher! Probably regifted.

21 posted on 12/17/2022 8:48:56 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)
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To: srmanuel

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

Who doesn’t?
I assumed everyone does this. No wonder I get such strange looks on Christmas morning when opening presents.


22 posted on 12/17/2022 8:51:44 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

How do I get on your gift list ??


23 posted on 12/17/2022 8:54:06 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: DUMBGRUNT
That time Air Force surgeons disarmed a ‘human bomb’ in Vietnam

https://taskandpurpose.com/history/air-force-vietnam-surgery-human-bomb/

The surgeons performing the surgery, I guess the sandbags negate the need for scrubs and sanitary conditions.

24 posted on 12/17/2022 9:14:17 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

One of J-F-ing Kerry’s Purple Hearts was for a papercut size wound that was treated with a band-aid. One was for a wound that resulted from his using a hand grenade to try to destroy a cache of rice. He got rice in his butt. The standard for Purple Heart is for wounds resulting from hostile action. Friendly fire does not count, unless while engaged with the enemy, which he was not, unless a cache of rice is the enemy. His third was not nearly as minor, but he really was only entitled to one. The third was his ticket out of Vietnam, and his CO must have strained his wrist jumping on his transfer request.


25 posted on 12/17/2022 9:16:52 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: VicVanleeuwenhoek

That’s most senior government beurocrats.

Neither the smartest nor most moral, simply yes men willing to do “whatever” it takes to get into that position.


26 posted on 12/17/2022 9:25:42 AM PST by Red6
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To: srmanuel

“How do I get on your gift list ??”

Just let me use your time machine.
I want to travel back to 1977 and invest $10,000 in Apple stock!


27 posted on 12/17/2022 9:36:00 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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Must have thought it was a light bulb


28 posted on 12/17/2022 9:50:41 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Only an idiot would give a polock a grenade launcher


29 posted on 12/17/2022 10:08:33 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

If I could do that I would travel back myself and invest in Apple, etc...LOL...


30 posted on 12/17/2022 10:33:28 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Must have been a Glock grenade launcher. Those things are very touchy!


31 posted on 12/17/2022 1:21:10 PM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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