{"id":29417,"date":"2012-04-07T07:39:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T11:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29417"},"modified":"2012-04-07T07:39:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T11:39:39","slug":"marines-take-their-toys-to-redondo-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29417","title":{"rendered":"Marines take their toys to Redondo Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Country Singer sends us a link from the LA Times<\/a> about two Marines who took 10 “explosive devices” to Redondo Beach for whatever reason was passing through their pointy little heads and caused a stir;<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew they were explosives, and they should not have been in their possession and could be dangerous if improperly used,\u201d said Hink.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles County sheriff’s bomb squad was called to the scene and employed a robot to investigate the devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Makes you think they had TNT or grenades or something, right? Actually they were just artillery simulators. For the uninitiated, artillery simulators are just that – very loud flash bang devices that safely give you the feeling that you’re under attack by artillery. Dangerous? Hardly, unless you’re not bright enough to toss it after you pull the cord, or if there’s a measure of debris that could be propelled by the explosion. They certainly don’t warrant evacuating 200 shoppers at a nearby Target store, or robots.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Lance Cpl. Devin Gajewski, 24, and Pvt. Thomas Bazer, 20] were shocked at the attention they had received,\u201d said Capt. Jeff Hink, who arrived on scene at the South Bay Galleria at 10:45 p.m. Thursday. \u201cThey were young guys. They shouldn\u2019t have had those devices and didn\u2019t realize the gravity of the situation until they were knee-deep in it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I agree the young Marines shouldn’t have had the devices, it seems to me that the police were just justifying their budgets for robots and their EOD teams. Simply an over-reaction. And the LA Times doesn’t help by describing the devices as if they were pipebombs of something. Artillery simulators are just that – simulators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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