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Originally posted by Mike F+May 19 2005, 03:55 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Mike F @ May 19 2005, 03:55 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Displaced Flames fan@May 18 2005, 05:28 PM
Mike...what absolute, definitive statement did I make?
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Oh, come on Dis
A live grenade with a pin pulled doesn't get picked up and wisked away by anyone... You'll never convince me that someone threw a grenade intending to blow up the President and it just happened to be a dud. Sorry.
You didn't exactly leaving the door open for the possibility that this was a live grenade. Pretty definitive in my book. [/b][/quote]
Well, the second underlined statement had to do with my willingness to buy the story as it was being assumed by the media...that has nothing to do with whether it was possible or not.
The other statement I made was a reaction to the one story that I read on it, which I believe was the initial link. That story made it sound as if someone picked up the grenade right after it was thrown (A Georgian security officer) and rushed it away from the crowd. Finding a grenade on the ground and picking it up is very different than picking one up that is thrown, bounces and rolls to your feet.
Again, the headline was premature and overly dramatic based on the information at the time of the initial story.
Yes, it's possible and I never said it wasn't. But my opinion on it was definitive and that was that it was probably NOT a live grenade. The FBI statement makes me wrong.
Seems like a one in a million coincidence that it didn't go off. Unless it was homemade or something. I think it's a stretch to assume that somebody pulled the pin on a perfectly good grenade, tossed it, it hit a kid (is that sick or what?) bounces to the ground and doesn't detonate. I'm still skeptical.