Posted on 07/26/2025 6:36:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin
L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna confirmed a grenade remains missing as the investigation continues into the deaths of three L.A. County deputies who were killed by an explosion of military-style[?] grenades at a training facility.
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A preliminary investigation indicated the explosives may have been connected to an operation that took place a day before the blast in Santa Monica.
The two military-style [?] grenades, which were believed to be stolen, were x-rayed at the scene, deemed inert.
The July 18 explosion reportedly happened when one of the grenades was reportedly being cut in half as part of a training exercise to examine what was inside.
On Friday, Luna said detectives determined that one of the two grenades detonated on July 18, while the second grenade is currently unaccounted for.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
More and more details - ‘cut in half’?
Someone or someones messed up. Xray is one thing, but then just cutting into it to actually determine/sample contents? Thats what remotely controlled tools are for.
Next we’ll hear it was a chopsaw with a metal abrasive saw blade and not a waterjet.
I have a sneaky suspicion that there is a whole lot more to this story than is being told!!
Maybe. But after having worked as a Hazmat officer for years in charge of a group of enthusiastic sometimes over competitive individuals who often felt that they were more qualified than they really were... simple stupidity is often the explanation for situations with tragic outcomes.
Idiots.
They need to abolish the bomb squad if that is the best they can do.
I don’t care for the reporting on this incident.
Any explosives tech is trained to assume a device is live until confirmed otherwise by ‘making safe’ (disarming or detonating).
i.e., if it’s not a confirmed training grenade and not disarmed, it’s LIVE. I don’t care WHAT an xray may or may not show. Utter stupidity.
The dumbassery on display here had obvious tragic consequences and will forever be used as safety training for other bomb techs.
”-style” denotes cheap knock-off crap, to me. Unless it’s “execution-style.”
We may get another Darwin Award out of this.
I'd be interesting in hearing about a hand grenade that comes in some other style.
It all sounds very dangerous to me.
Or an ordnance person familiar with disabling a grenade. Or pull the pin and toss it in a pit. If it goes boom, it wasn’t empty.
Is that Obama pitching?
Is that Obama pitching?
Oops! Double tap.
Not even TWO male instructors are sufficient to induce the little lady to throw the grenade PAST the sandbags. To further simplify the training process, maybe dummy hand grenades should be offered to girls, made out of solid depleted uranium. Next, train them on non-fragmenting stun grenades.
At least she now has real-world experience in avoiding injury from a hostile’s grenade.
Somebody needs to post a link to Monty Python’s “Holy Hand Grenade” scene.
Isn’t there footage of Obama throwing out a first pitch in baseball, and throwing like a girl?
Yup. I don’t have it though.
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