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The Darwin Awards posthumously “honors” those adults that have removed themselves from the gene pool in the most spectacular or humiliating way. It is tragic in the extreme the adult responsible for the explosive device that killed and injured those children on Maple Avenue in Bakersfield on Tuesday was not himself the victim of his stupidity. We still await the facts of what the device was, but if military ordinance it can’t have been as described by Sendejo with a “firing pin” removed. Such ordinance has a primer, not a firing pin, but the rounds may well have triggering mechanisms and exploding components in the actual projectile of whatever kind. In which case, simply removing the casing and propellant still leaves the most dangerously explosive component in the projectile intact much in the way of a landmine or unexploded cluster bomb. Like most of you I hope whoever was actually responsible for this tragedy including those responsible for...
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