M61 Grenade discovered outside of Pattaya Transport Company Compound

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M61 Grenade discovered outside of Pattaya Transport Company Compound



PATTAYA: -- Officers from the Royal Thai Navy Bomb Disposal Unit were called to a Transport Company located in the Northern outskirts of Pattaya after a live hand grenade was left at the entrance to the compound.

Banglamung Police were also in attendance at the “Pack & Moving” Transport Company Compound located in the Northern outskirts of Pattaya on Thursday Morning.

The Bomb Disposal Team determined the explosive device was live and it was removed and safely destroyed.

Full story: http://www.pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/163793/m61-grenade-discovered-outside-of-pattaya-transport-company-compound/


-- Pattaya One 2015-01-09

[how241]

I guess hand grenades are readily available here... In the USA, guns are everywhere but you don't hear about grenades so much.

[Nemesis7]

M61 Hand Granade is a military issue Granade used mostly by the U.S. military and the Canadian forces.

The impactis is fatal.

wonder how it's available to public here in Thailand ?

[IMA_FARANG]

M61 Hand Granade is a military issue Granade used mostly by the U.S. military and the Canadian forces.

The impactis is fatal.

wonder how it's available to public here in Thailand ?

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Don't fool yourself, such grenades are easily available if you have the money and know the right people in Thailand.

That grenade is a standard U.S. military grenade, and there are annual military "joint exercises" between U.S. and Asian military units.

Including Thailand and other countries.

You can imagine the rest.

I suspect the grenade is at least several years old ..... maybe much more than several years.

Question should be: How otherwise do you legally dispose of such an illegally acquired item?