A Grenade for Chinese New Year

Hi there...

It was still festive season in Malaysia - people of all races, were happily celebrating the coming of the year Tiger, in the Chinese Lunar Calendar.

Unmarried persons shall receive angpow (money in red packets)..

But in Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, a northern state in Malaysia, a trader received his "angpow" in the form of a deadly tool - A Hand Grenade..!!!!

Grenade kills people with sharpnels flying in all directions at supersonic speed!!!

On 28 February 2010, The Star newspaper (Malaysia) reported that a hand grenade was thrown for the third time in seven months at the house of a businessman in Taman Sungai Bakap Permai in Sungai Bakap, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.

This time the grenade was found in the compound of the house with the safety pin already removed...!!!

In July last year, a grenade with the pin intact was found outside the house compound of the same guy. It was the first incident.

Second incident followed in December last year.

This time, the grenade exploded, slightly damaging the windows.

South Seberang Prai OCPD Supt Shafien Mamat said police was alerted at about 5.45pm on Saturday on the latest incident.

A police bomb squad then detonated the grenade.

Police were investigating if the latest attack was related to the two previous incidents.

“The prime suspect detained in connection with those incidents is still in our custody,” he said.

Supt Shafien urged those with information to contact the police at 04-5824222 or the nearest police station.

Well this is what a Hand Grenade explosion looked and sounds like :

The killing zone or damage magnitude depends on the type of Grenade, the country that produce them and the explosive device used!!

War injury photos you are not allowed to see....

Source - the observer...

A gruesome and fascinating collection of army photographs is to be made available online, thanks to an American archivist.

The images date back to the American Civil War and cover the World Wars and the Vietnam War.

Until now hidden in the depths of the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., the photos are being digitized and published on Flickr by the museum's head archivist, Mike Rove.

Not without problems, however: Rove and his colleaugues have been banned from uploading to Flickr by the army, and so have to do the work from home.


Grenade embedded in forehead. Vietnam war.



0.50 caliber bullet wound of the face. Injured while manufacturing an ash tray. Eleven days after injury, patient began hemorrhaging; blood flow so profuse it was impossible to carry out emergency procedures. Patient deceased. World War 2. 4th General Hospital.



Gasoline burns from latrine hole explosion. World War 2.



Delousing. World War 1.



Sign was posted at the 363rd Station Hospital. Atabrine is an anti-malaria drug. Image not dated.


Pvt. Benjamin Franklin, Company H, 2nd Regiment, Minnesota, Cavalry. Lost all four limbs to frostbite, December, 1865. Civil War.