This is hilarious, in a sick sorta way

[unixronin]

Car & Driver went to Baghdad to road-test M1114 up-armored Humvees.  The Patriots (1st Battalion, 76th Field Artillery, 4th Bridage Combat Team, US Army 3rd Infantry Division, out of Fort Stewart, Georgia), whcih whom writer Jerry Garrett was "embedded", tell this story:

But the Oscar goes to ... "the donkey bomb", in which an insurgent tried to strap a saddlebag full of explosives and a cellphone-activated detonator onto a donkey he tried to drag out into traffic.  Donkeys being as stubborn as they are, the animal wouldn't move.  Then someone called the guy on his cell phone...

'Tis sport to see the Engineer / Hoist with his own petard -- Wm. Shakespeare

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[docwebster.livejournal.com]

I just sprayed beer all over my monitor. Oh, the visual.

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

D'OH!

[nephthys510.livejournal.com]

speaking of petards

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

........yes...?

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

what's a petard? is it a type of retarded pet?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Basically a kind of large mine filled with gunpowder. The "Engineer" (in those days, it meant "a man who works with siege engines") would run up to a door or gate carrying the petard, attack it to the face of the door/gate by driving in iron spikes with a mallet, light the fuse, and run like hell. Of course, if a stray spark ignited the fuse prematurely, or the fuse was defective and burned too fast, or anything else chanced to set the petard off prematurely such as a lucky hit with an arquebus, the remainder of his life was very short and loud.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

sign me up!!!!

[drgnmatt.livejournal.com]

There's this position called "Community Advisor" for the dorms in almost every uni that sounds vaguely familiar. "Hall Advisor" for the career types. But instead of bring the explosives to the door yourself, you knock on the doors of dorm college students.

Ph34r. I will be one of those dorm rats next year... sorta.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

no thanks, i'd rather be an engineer with explosives!

[drgnmatt.livejournal.com]

Rather than a mechanic with explosives?

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

hmmmmmm, WWII in flight engineer with explosives?

Sounds Snopesworthy.

[zeekar.livejournal.com]

I don't see anything about it there yet, but it definitely has the feel of an urban legend. :)