How NOT to disassemble a bomb!

[DSW]

I guess this could be in the safety section, though I doubt anyone here would do something like this. What sort of rocket scientist thinks a cutting torch is the right tool to disassemble a bomb or shell?

 

You really have to wonder about some people. Shame so many had to die and get injured over something this stupid.

 

http://news.msn.com/world/bangkok-sc...ith-blow-torch

 

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A suspected World War II bomb exploded in the Thai capital as scrap metal workers tried to cut it open with a blow torch, killing at least seven people and injuring 19, police said.

Construction workers found the shell at a construction site and brought it to a warehouse on the outskirts of Bangkok to be cut up.

"We believe the bomb dates back to World War Two and weighed about 227 kg. As they probably did not know (what to do), they used a blow torch to try to cut open the bomb," said police superintendent Kamthorn Uicharoen.


"The explosion created a three-meter deep crater."

Pools of blood and body parts were scattered on the floor of the warehouse.

Reuters camera footage showed just the shell of the building remained, its interior a mesh of twisted metal as firefighters doused flames and burning embers.

Allied bombing raids on Bangkok began in 1942. Japan was using the country as a staging post for its invasions of Burma and Malaya.

[ThomasPowers]

Here in the states we had a fellow cutting up gas tanks with an O-A torch retroactively cancel his birth certificate

[ianinsa]

Now I wonder, who won the Darwin award this week!

 

The sad thing is that the guys who copped it were probably  just uneducated grunts and thing to earn a living as the (uninsured)sole breadwinner for a large cache of dependents.

 

Ian