Oh yeah, looks just like Chanel No. 5 to me.
Posted on 06/18/2004 6:12:50 AM PDT by Piranha
Says she thought it was a bottle of perfume. "I opened it to smell it"
A huge blast rocked the Tel Nof army base on Monday morning, with smoke coming out of Brigadier General Benny Zucker's office. Soldiers who rushed in to the general's office were astounded to find that the explosion was not the result of a terrorist infiltration of the base, but rather from a tear gas grenade set off by Zucker's secretary by accident.
The soldiers found the stunned secretary at her desk in a cloud of tear gas smoke. She explained that she thought it was a bottle of perfume, and wanted to smell it. "I pulled the pin out to open it", she said.
An IDF spokesman said "the soldier touched the grenade and thereby released the pin. We are checking the circumstances under which the grenade was stored".
OPPS!!!!!
Was she a blond?
Duh.
Something sounds fishy here. No way a smoke grenade looks like a bottle of perfume.
In a related story, the woman was found with a tampax on her ear and couldn't find her pencil.
This will close any further nominations for "Ditz of The Year".
Oh yeah, looks just like Chanel No. 5 to me.
Agreed. This doesn't pass the smell test.
"Ah, general, the smell of roses always brings tears to my eyes! I'll just open up this bottle and . . ."
Darwin Award nominee potential here............
That's not gonna look good on her next performance appraisal...
I am imagining the Gen making a pass at her and her saying "back off sir" or "I am going to pull this pin out" and him chuckling and keeping heading toward her. And then to his shock, she pulls the pin. Just imagining {in a very amused and satisfied way}
This was in Israel. Maybe it was a French designer tear-gas cannister. :-)
You almost owed me a new computer monitor.
Good one!
Yes they are. A lot of dumb a*** will pull the trigger of a gun to see what happens.
There is a true story about a woman in Phiily who bought some spermicidal jelly. Yes, she put it on toast and ate it. She filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer after she became pregnant, and the manufacturer's response was "how stupid can this woman be"?
2banana's right on all counts.
Also notice that the secretary was just sitting in this cloud when everyone stormed in. No f--ing way. People would sell out their own mothers to escape a confined space like an office, full of irritant gas.
Didja also notice that the spokesman referred to the secretary as the "soldier"? I seem to recall grenade ID a pretty fundamental part of training. No way anyone in the IDF doesn't know what a grenade looks like, or could confuse it with perfume.
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