At least they didn't steal your grandma!

Linky, you've never even been to Kansas >:P

PS: Why the hell does Uncle need grenades?

apparently so he can hunt down pick pockets and blow them up :P

Hehehe... I think he was probably just being reactionary. I doubt he'd really do it. As for why he bought them? I think he just thought it was novel that one can openly buy grenades in Nicaragua. Maybe he bought them in Grenada, and just thought it was a clever irony.

He He He.. Grenada.

Notes on throwing grenades from someone who has:

1) Pulling the pin out of a grenade using your teeth is impossible. Hollywood has that all wrong; you'll pull your tooth out first.

2) The pins, if inserted by the factory properly and not removed and reinserted by some street monkey selling them between the cigars and jalapeno peppers stands in costa rico, should look like they've ben inserted through the eye of the pin holder all the way, and are bent -- it's this bent part of the pin that ensures you can't pull them out with your teeth or accidently prime the grenade by dropping it.

3) Grenades are primed when the handle is pulled up. The pin when inserted prevents this arming.

4) Grenades have a lethality radius of 18 meters. This is a large circle. One simply does not walk -- grenade into Mordor. At grenade ranges at various Canadian Forces bases I have seen shrapnel marks that gouge thick wood 15 meters from the blast area and they are a half to full centimeter deep running 3 whole meters.

5) Grenades are loud. Hollywood, again, has it all wrong when a grenade goes off near someone. They "may" be okay (extremely unlikely if you've watched Mythbusters with grenade myths), but they're definately concussed in the sense that all you can hear is a high pitched whine and if feel like the whole world has reverberated. The heavy thud on your chest from the shock wave woul be like a massive rave that has a huge beat, thumping your entire body. All this from a little grenade.

6) Grenades typically have a 5 second fuse. Do not hot spoon the grenade. Hot spooning is the term used to describe an extremely dangerous tactic in delivering the grenade to it's destination: it is where you pull the pin, count a couple seconds and then throw. The last thing you want is a misfire. Misfire happen when the fuse is too short or too long. In this case a short fuse misfire would kill you in the face. This would be unfun.

7) The proper way of pulling the pin involves holding the grenade to your chest with your throwing hand, holding tightly to the pin in the other hand, and pulling the grenade away from your body while holding the pin. The end result is the grenade conveniently armed in your throwing hand.

8) Once you pull the pin Mr.Grenade is not your friend. Throw him either where he will kill/main bad people or do no harm to good people.

9) Throw the grenade, not the pin.

10) Do not throw grenades at your enemies unless you have pulled the pin. You will get your grenade back but this is not a good thing.

11) Don't forget to seek cover or run the fuck away and seek cover after you deliver the grenade.

12) Grenades make great birithday cake candles. I propose this method of delivery should you find the theiving bastards. Typically one shouts "GRENADE" when delivering one, in this case you may shout, "SURPRISE!". To emphasise the importance of any statement I have found adding the word "BITCHES!" or "BITCH!" works well. You would then deliver the hot spooned grenade, "candle", in a cake shouting "SURPRISE, BITCHES!". See how more effective that statement becomes.

Oh, I forgot!

13) The fuses contracted by the grenade manufacturers that one the bid to supply Canadian Forces with grenades until 2011-ish went with the cheaper fuses. The dud ratio used to be about 1 in 100. A dud is a grenade that has been properly primed but does not go off. Or, goes off sometime between 5 seconds after pulling the pin and 30 minutes. The current ratio is 18 in 100. Don't be surprised if your flea market purchased grenades are all extremely dangerous duds.

"In this case a short fuse misfire would kill you in the face. This would be unfun."

Best wording ever.

Seriously, though...I have issues lighting and throwing firecrackers...I think I'll leave the grenades for other people and stick with long distance weapons, should I ever get around to training with them...

Oh...and I saw a blast at a quarry, once. And even though I was a good 2km away from that and in a car at the time, I STILL felt the damn blast through the sternum. Damn awesome to watch though...I can see why people find blowing shit up to be so intoxicating.

*pulls pin with teeth* *spoons grenade for 3 seconds* Everyone run!