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Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch Provokes Bomb Scare 186

Bomb disposal teams were called in and a nearby pub evacuated after water company engineers mistook a Monty Python film prop for a hand grenade. After nearly an hour of examination by bomb experts, they counted to three. No more. No less. Three was the number they counted, and the number they counted was three. Four they did not count, nor two, except to proceed to three. Five was right out. Once the number three had been reached, being the third number, they declared that the grenade was actually a copy of the "Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch" used in the film Monty Python And The Holy Grail. A police spokeswoman confirmed that the device was a toy and that it had been no danger to the public.

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Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch Provokes Bomb Scare

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  • Worms (Score:2, Informative)

    by jack2000 ( 1178961 ) on Friday March 20, 2009 @06:51PM (#27275083)
    I liked how Worms had the holy hand grenade with the "hallelujah" chanting right before it explodes.
  • Re:Whiny bastards (Score:4, Informative)

    by Lemmy Caution ( 8378 ) on Saturday March 21, 2009 @02:52AM (#27277289) Homepage

    It hasn't been made impossible, but it has been made harder. But not because of anything being done by the TSA.

    Bruce Schneier correctly named the two post-9/11 changes that matter. The first is reinforced, locking doors to the cockpit. The second is the change in passenger behavior. These two elements make the task for a would-be terrorist all the more difficult. Everything else is theater.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein

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