Grenade thrown at Bush

[Ja'chyra]

I can't speak for all different hand grenades, but the sort I've seen have a separate detonator tube. The grenades are stored without detonators for reasons of safety. Throw it as far as you want without the detonator, it won't work. When you prepare it for use the top of the grenade is unscrewed, the tube is attached and then it all is put back together. Ready to explode!

Someone unfamiliar with the grenade type could just have failed to make it operational.

Or it could have been a pomegranate

[Byzantine Prince]

Those are dangerously deliscious!

[Ja'chyra]

Last time I had one I was sick for 5 hours afterwards

[Goofball]

Well, even if it had gone off, Bush would have had to have extremely bad luck to have even received so much as a scratch from a grenade exploding 100 feet away (not to mention that it was supposedly in the middle of a crowd of people who would have absorbed all of the blast/schrapnel).

[Ronin]

well.....what can i say....

better luck next time..

[Ser Clegane]

Interesting ... I remember that when GWB visited our neighbourhood here in Germany I made a thread about the absurd security measures that were taken (e.g., closing down whole highways, making people stay at home in a whole quarter of the city of Mainz, sealing manhole covers in the city).

At that time some people argued that this was "normal" procedure for such visits.
Only a day later GWB went to Slovakia to take a bath in the crowd.

Now, in Georgia it seems again that security measures were not that harsh.

Of course the difference in the latter two cases is that GWB could expect the crowds to cheer for him while during his visit in Mainz the crowd most likely would have been less welcoming.

So - lesson learned: The security of GWB's ego seems to be much more worthy of protection than his physical intactness ... go figure

[Devastatin Dave]

Face it lefties, you're pretty much screwed, the rightwing is thouroghly entrenced so all you can do is have wet dreams and whine on this forum for some liberal change in our government!!! LOL

[jayrock]

well.....what can i say....

better luck next time..

careful what you wish for... remember, next up is president cheney...shudders... thats scary.

[Devastatin Dave]

careful what you wish for... remember, next up is president cheney...shudders... thats scary.

What's so bad about Uncle Dick?

[Ronin]

careful what you wish for... remember, next up is president cheney...shudders... thats scary.

maybe we´ll get lucky and they´re together at the time

[bmolsson]

I thought they meant Granada......