OT - story from Iraq...

From: Mil-Veh Co. (milveh@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Tue Apr 26 2005 - 22:23:10 PDT


If you find what appears to be a time bomb, do not
play with the timer. If you do insist on playing with
the timer, do not hold the blasting cap in your free
hand. (An American intelligence NCO, while cataloging
and photographing items taken in a raid, came across a
detonator wired to a washing machine timer. While
holding the blasting cap firmly in his left hand he
cranked the timer dial to see how the device was
supposed to operate…)



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