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MD: Man Charged After Fake Grenade Found In Apartment(MD)
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| 14 December, 2011
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Posted on 12/16/2011 5:15:34 AM PST by marktwain
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So little information that we cannot tell whether the charges are justified or bogus. If the fake grenade was rigged to resemble a booby trap, the charges could be justified.
If it was just displayed as many have seen, as a joke, then the charges would be bogus.
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:15:37 AM PST
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
“If it was just displayed as many have seen, as a joke, then the charges would be bogus.”
I’d hate to think that a person could be arrested and charged on the ‘symbolism’ alone.
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:18:26 AM PST
by
equaviator
( "There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
To: marktwain
Agreed. Otherwise, what’s next? Arrested for playing army with toy guns?
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:22:28 AM PST
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: marktwain
Oh for cryin’ out loud!
How many hand grenade cigarette lighter have you seen in your life?
What’s next, they raid your house for the possession of a pineapple because “it looked like a grenade”..?
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:24:10 AM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
To: marktwain
MD is run by real asshats.
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:24:59 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: marktwain
This was a phony charge, too. Right?
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:27:20 AM PST
by
Jemian
To: equaviator
You may aw well get used to “hate to think” then. Because, in the age we now live, if one’s actions, deeds, or thougts do not conform to wht the ruling elite deem appropriate, one is subjuct to much woe.
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:27:58 AM PST
by
sport
To: marktwain
the manager of mechanics at the place I retired from 2 years ago, had a grenade on his desk and it was a ‘real’ dummy grenade....
picture is worth at least 999 words...so
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:30:17 AM PST
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: marktwain
First this is Maryland - Md is a police state which is very unfriendly to the 2nd amendment. Second how could the charges be anything but bogus? It was a FAKE grenade. How many of us have seen these dummys at gun shows or seen one labeled complaint dept? Third, the Sicherheitsdienst found it while serving an eviction notice. Is an eviction notice the same as a search warrant? Not being a lawyer, I can't definitively answer this one, but I'm guessing not.
This is just another example of the police harassing the citizenry.
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:31:23 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: marktwain
If the fake grenade was rigged to resemble a booby trap, the charges could be justified.
I read about this yesterday. Under the law the "manufacture" and "possession" of a "phony destructive device" is only illegal if the intent is to threaten, harass, intimidate, etc.
Of course, "intent" is always in the eye of the beholder, right?
To: Travis McGee
I keep one of those by my bedside, never have had any complaints.....
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:33:28 AM PST
by
usmcobra
(Happiness is a belt fed weapon.)
To: marktwain
When I was a kid, I had two Mk 2 grenades, a 40 mm shell, and a 2 foot belt of 7.62x39 linked ammo. All real training dummies. I took them to school for show and tell. Times have changed.
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:39:04 AM PST
by
Jack of all Trades
(Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
To: sport
“You may as well get used to hate to think then...”
I think not. I’d rather assume that The American people would never allow themselves to be so compliant with such tyranny.
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:40:11 AM PST
by
equaviator
( "There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
To: usmcobra
“I keep one of those by my bedside, never had any complaints...”
I am assuming we are talking about a fake hand grenade right? (giggle, blush)
To: marktwain
I hate how pussified the country’s become. In the old days, lots of guys in America had one on their desk, and used it as a paperweight.
The pineapple grenade was the most popular.
They weren’t even “fake.” They were real grenades that had been disarmed.
What’s happened to all of those things? Must’ve been millions of them. Bomb squad haul them all off? One at a time? Past some hyperventilating lib who fainted when he saw it?
Guess I better go through dad’s stuff, just in case. Make sure there aren’t any in there. Go bury them in a field somewhere. Don’t want to get hauled off to Guantanamo for owning a paperweight.
To: marktwain
Remember the good ole days when the back of Popular Science advertised all sorts of cool stuff in the back pages and companies could actually write ad copy "Really scatters the gang when you throw this baby in their midst." Just imagine trying to throw "this baby in their midst" today. Jail time.
To: marktwain
If the fake grenade was rigged to resemble a booby trap, the charges could be justified.
What is interesting is that a citizen can't even have a plastic toy if he wanted one, at the same time, MD SWAT teams will routinely throw live grenades (flash-bangs) into a private dwelling with the intent and purpose of wounding and disabling the occupants - and that is cool and acceptable.
No double standard here.
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:47:49 AM PST
by
The Theophilus
(Obama's Key to win 2012: Ban Haloperidol)
To: Jack of all Trades
Take that school nowadays and you’re likely to shipped off to Gitmo pronto.
Times have changed, indeed.
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posted on
12/16/2011 5:53:05 AM PST
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: marktwain
Man, am I glad my basement is not in Maryland.
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posted on
12/16/2011 6:16:14 AM PST
by
MadJack
("Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." (Afghan proverb))
To: marktwain
Did it look like this?
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posted on
12/16/2011 6:21:24 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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