pcosmar
02-26-2010, 04:30 PM
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14478233?nclick_check=1
SAN CLEMENTE — Authorities have found a grenade on Interstate 5 in Orange County and have shut down the freeway in both directions.
California Highway Patrol Officer Eric Barnard said today that it was unclear whether the grenade in San Clemente was live or inert.
The Sheriff Department's bomb squad and Marines from Camp Pendleton arrived on scene to investigate.
Barnard says the grenade was discovered about 11:15 a.m. and authorities closed the freeway about 15 minutes later.
Motorists are being diverted off the highway at Avenida Vista Hermosa. Traffic is backed up in both directions for at least five miles.
bold by me
Come on now. If it did not go off in 3.5 seconds (10 sec on very old vintage) it is not going to.
How hard is it to see the HOLE in the bottom if an inert / practice grenade?
Are the available EOD personnel that inept?
I mean Damn.:confused:
Kick it to the ditch, and open the damn road.
SAN CLEMENTE — Authorities have found a grenade on Interstate 5 in Orange County and have shut down the freeway in both directions.
California Highway Patrol Officer Eric Barnard said today that it was unclear whether the grenade in San Clemente was live or inert.
The Sheriff Department's bomb squad and Marines from Camp Pendleton arrived on scene to investigate.
Barnard says the grenade was discovered about 11:15 a.m. and authorities closed the freeway about 15 minutes later.
Motorists are being diverted off the highway at Avenida Vista Hermosa. Traffic is backed up in both directions for at least five miles.
bold by me
Come on now. If it did not go off in 3.5 seconds (10 sec on very old vintage) it is not going to.
How hard is it to see the HOLE in the bottom if an inert / practice grenade?
Are the available EOD personnel that inept?
I mean Damn.:confused:
Kick it to the ditch, and open the damn road.