For the record, it’s surprising that someone dumb enough to use a grenade as a bookend would read enough to require a bookend, but I digress. The gent, Orlando’s WKMG Local 6 reports, “Quickly realised something wasn’t quite right” and then “replaced the pin.” A man of true insight. The pin-happy fellow, acting on his intuition that there was something off about the grenade he’d just triggered, called in the police bomb squad.
The grenade (and another the neighbour had – you know, for the rest of her books!) was detonated by robot in a nearby field, leaving a two-foot crater in the ground. To replace this unfortunate loss of bookends, we suggest using bricks, or heavy coconuts, or literally anything else that isn’t filled with 70 year old explosives.
[Image via spaxiax/Shutterstock]
Stefan
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 11:33 PMWould have been ok if they got the grenade hollowed out, or just got a dummy grenade.
Gav
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 1:49 AMHey no fair!
He is cheating himself out of the darwin awards by putting the pin back in. :)
Eli
Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 5:11 PMYou threaten the commentator with a warning to avoid the “even-worse” scenario of making a boring comment. Does that mean it’s okay for me to complain about an excruciatingly boring article.