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So there was a callout for a women cleaning a storage unit at an apartment complex who found 2 grenades. The bomb squad showed up and x-rayed the grenades and decided they were inert and took them back to the bomb facility where they were apparently left in a vehicle overnight. The next morning 3 Deputies with a combined 76 years on the force were trying to "cut a grenade in half for a display piece" when it exploded and killed all 3 Deputies. The storage unit was from a previous apartment resident who had military service. 1 of the 2 grenades that was seized is now missing. All indications are that it was in the same place as the
So, the questions.
1. Can an x-ray machine determine if there is explosive inside the grenade? I have limited x-ray experience from prior security work and metal was pretty impervious to the x-rays. We even had the super duper machines at the time which would highlight items which were consistent with explosives. They would be a different color than the usual black and white you normally see in an x-ray. Otherwise, most explosives were insensitive on the x-ray and just appeared as black areas. So, how did they know the grenades were "inert" when they clearly weren't?
2. Is it normal procedure to leave explosive devices in a vehicle at the bomb range overnight?
3. Is it normal procedure to deconstruct an explosive device in a vehicle in the parking lot at the bomb range?
4. What sort of Deputies with a combined 76 years on the force don't know that to make a grenade "safe" is to take the fuze assembly out. Hell, these Deputies probably had some military experience and are aware that grenade bodies and fuzes are shipped separately and assembled when issued to troops for use. And they were on the bomb squad! WTF?
5. Were they unaware that both the military and ATF have cutaway grenade displays for law enforcement and first responder training purposes? I mean, I was aware of this and I was only a firefighter. I find it hard to believe that in the second largest city in the USA didn't already have such cutaway grenades already in their training facilities.
6. Why hasn't the former member of the military been scooped up by the FBI and charged with theft of government property, possession of stolen government property, murder or anything else?
7. Why when the first press conference was held did they say that the ATF and FBI were there to investigate the "post explosion" happenings? We have a pretty good idea what happened post explosion, bang splat.
8. Where TF is the second grenade? They've searched the grounds of the academy and haven't located it intanct or found pieces of 2 grenades so it wasn't there and didn't sympathetically detonate.
0. What really happened that they are trying to cover up here because their story is very full of holes. The official story makes no sense at all. Last I checked the military was pretty tight with their grenades. I don't think they were stolen by a military member, I bet they came across the souther border, probably from the billions of dollars of weapons left in Afghanistan.
Anyone else want to test fit the tin foil hat and give it a whirl?