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Build A Military-Grade Camera-Flinging Grenade Launcher For $US500

1:30AM August 9, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Israel’s remote-video beaming camera launcher is a pretty hot military toy. But it’s a strictly military toy. Unless you build your own. Two hardcore modders hacked together a camera-launching flare gun that’s every bit as badass as the real thing. More »

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Medal Of Honor Recipient Threw A Live Grenade Back At The Enemy

12:40PM July 13, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Sgt 1st Class Leroy Arthur Petry is one of only two living recipients of the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. And how he earned it is a story that you need to hear. More »

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Hand Lemo-nades

7:00AM June 27, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Sadly, you cannot make lemonade from lemons by pulling the pin on these incendiary pieces of fruit to make them explode. They’re inert, you see, and just a side project for tinkerer Chris Myles. More »

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Store Your Grenade In A Sewing Machine For Safekeeping

2:41PM June 24, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

If you’re a shell-shocked World War I veteran with a few spare grenades lying around, you may start to hide them in some crazy places like a sewing machine. More »

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Police Robot Burns Down Mobile Home With Gas Grenades

2:00AM June 4, 2011 | Sam Biddle

ATTN ALL ROBOTS: You are supposed to help us. Clean our floors. Care for our elderly. Defuse our bombs. Not burn down our houses, as was the case for one Tennessee fugitive, whose mobile home was toasted during a standoff. More »

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Idiot Uses Live WWII Grenade As Paperweight

3:40AM April 16, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Oh, boy. After running the plates of a suspicious vehicle and finding an outstanding arrest warrant, Birmingham police pulled over and searched the car in question. Inside the found a man, his lady friend and a live grenade from WWII. He’s been using it, he says, as a paperweight. More »

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Robot Cops Aren’t Supposed To Drop Grenades And Run Over Them

5:39AM February 5, 2011 | Adrian Covert

I thought bomb squads used robots to extract explosives in a safe manner. When said robot drops potentially live grenades AND THEN RUNS OVER THEM with its treads, I don’t think the robot is doing a very good job. More »

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What’s Actually Inside The Tear Gas Being Used In Egypt?

9:00AM January 30, 2011 | Casey Chan

The tear gas grenades being used to quell protestors in Egypt are actually made right here in the USA. They’re intended to cause “tearing of the eyes” and “irritation of respiratory tract and mucous membranes”. What’s inside the tear gas? More »

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Idiot’s Idiotic Live Grenade Bookend Explodes After Idiot Pulls Pin

1:00PM January 18, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Sort of stupid: using WWII grenades as bookends. Really stupid: giving one of those grenades to a neighbour, no questions asked. Extremely stupid: accepting said grenade. Maximum stupid: immediately pulling the pin from that grenade. Bomb squad, come on down! More »

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Oil Lamp Grenade: Because A Round Flame Carrier Is A Safe Idea

4:20AM December 22, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Don’t lob this grenade, whatever you do – unless you’re attempting insurance fraud and actually want your house burned down. Perfectly rounded, filled with oil, and then lit up. What could go wrong? Learn how to make one at Instructables.