Posted on 08/09/2006 12:23:06 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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. They believe the ammunition had been brought there by scavengers wanting to sell them as scrap metal, but they also are investigating a possible link to Rio's heavily armed drug gangs who often raid military bases.
Yes, but it opened a little faster than he wanted.
Brazil Radiation Victim Dies
AP
Published: October 28, 1987
LEAD: A junkyard worker who helped break open a capsule containing radioactive cesium 137 died today, the third victim. Israel Batista dos Santos, 22 years old, died after three weeks in critical condition at the Marcilio Dias Naval hospital in Rio. Last Friday, a 6-year-old girl and her aunt died of generalized infection caused by radiation.
A junkyard worker who helped break open a capsule containing radioactive cesium 137 died today, the third victim. Israel Batista dos Santos, 22 years old, died after three weeks in critical condition at the Marcilio Dias Naval hospital in Rio. Last Friday, a 6-year-old girl and her aunt died of generalized infection caused by radiation. The bodies of Maria Gabriela Ferreira, 37, and her niece, Leide Ferreira, were buried Monday. The cesium 137 contaminated 243 people and some 30 tons of material, including clothes, furniture, junkyard scrap and soil.
Priceless!
Hammer alert!
He "was" stuck on stupid. Now he's stuck to the windows in the neighborhood!
Bet he doesn't have the guts to do it again!
I'll have to call Dillon Precision and see if they make a bullet-puller hammer big enough for an RPG round.
It's just like Grandpa used to say - use the right tool for the right job. 8^)
ping....
Didn't he realize this would deplete the Brazilian supply of RPGs? How could he be so wasteful?
The amazing thing is, that people this stupid get to be this old in the first place.
Most people this dumb don't make it past their teens. "Hold muh beer and watch this!"
Ummm, dust-biting is a prerequisite for being a Darwin Award candidate.
Doing so in an imaginative manner which displays a sterling lack of intelligence is another.
I'm only half joking - I once met a Japanese guy whose job during WWII had been to test torpedo fuzes with a hammer. I thought he was joking at first but he showed me pictures (it had been in the basement of the very building I was working in at the time). I asked him if anybody ever got hurt and he shrugged nonchalantly and said "oh, sure, all the time."
I haven't complained about any of my jobs since...
Bugs Bunny: [watching the Gremlin try to detonate a bomb with a mallet] What's all the hubbub, bub?
The Gremlin: Shh. These blockbuster bombs don't go off unless you hit them *just* right.
Bugs Bunny: Yeah?
The Gremlin: Yeah.
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