Two of your five daily portions... of death!

[webofevil]

Small explosions at UK consulate in New York. Windows broken. No-one hurt. Low-level terrorist activity. Enough to furrow brows but not to instil panic. Then this:

... Mayor Michael Bloomberg said shrapnel pieced together at the scene suggested that two "novelty" devices were involved.

Police say one device was the size and shape of a pineapple, the second like a lemon. They detonated within a minute of each other at 3.55 am - 8.55 British time.

One device had some gunpowder inside with a fuse. [Sky News]

Is that what happened to the Munch Bunch? Have they been off training in some jihadi camp all this time?
EDIT: The police have now officially described the devices as "novelty hand-grenades".

Comments

When Fruit Salad Attacks

[internetsdairy.livejournal.com]

So it was just a cocktail that went wrong?

Re: When Fruit Salad Attacks

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

Possibly. Tabasco, gunpowder; gunpowder, tabasco... we've all made that mistake.

[judge-death.livejournal.com]

Hehe. In Paradise they will be rewarded with 70 satsumas.

Snack rating 1, bomb rating 2. I win. Hooray!

[lowlowprices.livejournal.com]

"Mayor Michael Bloomberg, speaking at the scene, said: 'We have absolutely no idea who did it or what the motive was but we have the best people working on this.'"

Their best people? Surely their best people have more important things to attend to than going after some crank with fruit-based capacity.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

The police have now officially described the devices as "novelty hand-grenades" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4516119.stm).

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

What else would fall under the definition of a novelty hand grenade? Do they maintain different files - handgrenade, live; handgrenade, manufactured; handgrenade, novelty; handgrenade, party?

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

Exactly. "Party hats are 20 per cent down this quarter, and we just can't shift the plastic dog turds. The hand grenades, however..."

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

It would brighten up many a parade.