defusing a bomb shouldn't be a team activity

[gravitas]

these geniuses are crying out to win a darwin award

http://www.policeguide.com/boom1.mpeg

 

[DJLAW]

stupid people never cease to amaze me.

 

[badwolfcgy]

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

 

[shedevil]

Well stupid people are evreywhere, what can you do?

I thought that there was some sort of procedure for doing that or dealing with it.

What country was this in?

 

[Swguy]

Bomb squad humour...

SWG

 

[sdw]

The video is of an Iraqi who had been shot when they continued to advance on a checkpoint.

The people that are grouped around the person are Iraqi civilians who didn't believe the checkpoint was justified in shooting.

 

[gravitas]

^^^
I'm not sure how to take your comments. Are you suggesting that we should feel sorry about the people in the video being blown up?

 

[Randy Whorewald]

Thats pretty pathetic, seeing people destroyed like that. Sad part about it is these bombers actually believe they're going to a better place.

 

[sdw]

^^^
I'm not sure how to take your comments. Are you suggesting that we should feel sorry about the people in the video being blown up?

Not really, they were ignoring the warnings given to them. However, they were well meaning civilians who were trying to offer aid to a person they thought had been shot unjustly.

http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage carried a longer version of this video a while ago.

We are now in the same situation in Iraq that we were in Vietnam. If the soldier doesn't shoot a person that they have told to stay clear, they are taking the risk of being blown up. Of course, if it turns out the person doesn't have a bomb strapped to themselves, the soldier becomes a baby killer in the eyes of the media.

We are traumatizing another generation of our youth because a politician decided to go to war when they didn't have a clear idea of if they really needed to go to war, what resources were needed to win that war and if the American population would support that war over the length of time necessary to win that war.

Sadaam couldn't offer the same risk to the Americans that this war has damaged them. The political and economic fallout is going to hurt the Americans (and us) for years to come. All so a draft dodger and weekend warrior could prove how tough they are.

 

[gravitas]

a person they thought had been shot unjustly.

How in the slap happy fuck was he shot unjustly? He blew up.

As for Aljezeera, those fuckers are the Muslim equivalent of Pat Robertson's CBN. Neither are capable of delivering anything remotely close to the truth.

 

[sdw]

How in the slap happy fuck was he shot unjustly? He blew up.

As for Aljezeera, those fuckers are the Muslim equivalent of Pat Robertson's CBN. Neither are capable of delivering anything remotely close to the truth.

The person had been shot dead by the control point soldiers. They had been waiting for a bomb squad to arrive. The civilians thought the person was only wounded and ignored requests to stay away from the body.

I'm not sure of the sex of the person as various sources reported different sexes. It may have been one of the woman bombers.