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New Orleans police say they are evacuating the police headquarters building after they discovered two live hand grenades.
New Orleans police evacuated their headquarters and neighboring streets Thursday evening after two live hand grenades were found in a car that belonged to a man who allegedly killed three people earlier in the day.
The owner of the car was shot dead by an officer when the explosives were found and deactivated by a bomb squad, WDSU.com reported.
It took around 90 minutes to evacuate the five-story building after lab technicians found the grenades in a safe in the back of the car, according to WDSU.
Details of the event as well as a recent spate of violence will likely be addressed in a news conference Friday attended by New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landreiu, Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas and Crime Commissioner James Carter, according to WDSU.com.
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so they found them in the back of the "CARE?!?!?!" Seriously, a 5th grader could edit this!
leoangel, no, they didn't say in the back of the care. They said car. LEARN TO READ.
If we're going to critique the way the article was written, then I'm going after this sentence:
I feel bad for the guy as he had to stand and wait there until the bomb squad deactivated the bombs before the officer shot him. I wonder if he was pleading with the officer while they both waited for the bomb squad to deactivate the bombs?
@ SallyAnn, they probably updated the article-- LEARN TO THINK.
Harold, right on-- that's one lemon of a sentence.
What I find interesting about the event--
for 2 hand grenades that would have a maximum effective range of 30-45m, with modern US grenades having a average radius of 15m. I sincerely believe that these folks overreacted badly. Then again... better safe than sorry, I guess...
To bad no one told NO Police to deactivate grenades, you need to pull the pin out.
Yes, this sentence :
Is certainly poorly worded. This makes it sound like he was executed. Then again, maybe we should start doing things like this? Instead of spending million of dollars prosecuting and jailing a person obviously guilty (Charles Manson, Uni-Bomber, the guy who was just arrested for being a serial killer of homeless people, etc.), a double-tap to the head sounds a lot cheaper to me.
what a bunch of wimps. had to evacuate a 5 story building over two puny hand grenades? take them from the safe in the car go out to the firing range and pull the pin and toss them , duck and cover.. problem solved.
The police over react these days, heaven forbid they find a stash of fireworks in someones house or trunk, they will claim the people are terrorists planning on taking down a building with them.
I'm with ya Nailer. Two little hand grenades don't particularly make for a MOAB. lol
Obviously no one there had ever served time in the military or they would know exactly what to do.
The over reaction just says it all. Must be embarrassing to be a New Orleans cop these days.
And what is your advice to the survivors if the grenades detonate prematurely because they're old WW II-vintage pieces of crap, or the rusty pin breaks and sets them off, or the ancient lead spitter detonates the TNT in the grenade prematurely? Grenades detonate unexpectedly, even in today's military.
I advise caution when it comes to unexploded ordnance, even if you don't.
Triple murder and hand grenades in New Orleans? This makes no sense, New Orleans is such a clean, healthy and vibrant crime free city. The driver of the car must have been from somewhere else, like maybe Idaho.
Overheard from the N.O. Chief of Police "I'd rather be lambasted for overcaution than eulogized for my lack of it..."
But on the subject of editing - what's with "shot dead"? Does that mean that he was dead so they shot him to make sure? Or that he was shot until they were certain he was dead? What happened to simple, unambiguous words like "killed"?
In the local colloquial, killed of a killin' is the daily result of failed communication skills. There are occasionally, several a day with several bystanders being injured due to inadequate weapon control. "Shot dead" infers the professional application of accurate gunfire.
But really where is the story. Why was the guy so unhappy?
90 minutes to evacuate a 5 story building? It's a good thing that place wasn't on fire.
This is what we get for bringing in cheap labor from Mexico and central America after katrina. There has been a war on the streets ever since.
madcitizen - Clearly you've never been to New Orleans. They have no more and no less "cheap labor." It's a great city and, like all cities, they have their problems.
The vast majority of gunfights occur between various groups of drug retail agencies as the traditional territorial prerogatives defied conventional reorganization techniques. The police department does not normally view this activity with objection until the shootouts take place in the tourist areas or children are injured or killed.
and people had the nerve to protest that anyone under 21 shouldn't be allowed in french quarter
after 10pm! where's Jesse Jackson and Sharpton and all the preachers who come out the woodwork
to get on tv and make money and claim it's all racist? people better wake up and look around how
kids are being raised with all the freedom and exposure they have now! it's out of hand! what's next a tank?
As long as the individuals involved in the particular interpersonal style of negotiation are of the same race, no "racist" activity has occurred. The fact that ninety percent of the perps will soon be victims or that the majority of the victims are black is irrelevant. It's simply a cultural conflict.
And why is this news? I live in BR and cops are always finding crap like this in south Baton Rouge. But it is a little rediculous that it took an hour and a half to evac a 2 story building. I bet if a grenade went off in the building, it would be cleared in 15 minutes.
Well i've never been in the Service but i know you pull the pen on a grenade and so should a full grown person should know. MOST OF ALL A COP.
holy crap...didnt them "dectives" think to close the door on the safe? I seen the police use grenades to break up " unruley" crowds before , so they should have some training on how to handle them.
I'm finding this grenade issue really disturbing. We need to get a handle on this grenade as a weapon in large cities.
Orlando FL had a grenade thrown from a moving vehicle at of the busiest intersections of the city at I-4 and OBT.
They have yet to find out who threw it and had the thing actually gone off, the chain reaction would have killed and or injured a lot of people.
Where are these things coming from and who can get their hands on them? Somebody had better pay attention and soon!
Is anyone checking to make sure that all of the angry soldiers that will be released from military are not arriving with these things in their baggage? I'm not trying to be funny but somebody needs to ask the question.
I'm an Army Veteran and it is really easy for some weapons to go missing - I'm hoping that somebody takes this business seriously before thousands are hurt.
And if you are thinking of dating a Military Man, get him checked for AIDS FIRST!
It must be hard for the NOPD. Back in "Katrina" one was captured on camera saying "We're not dealing with REALITY here." What ARE they dealing with -- anything? No one gets to choose what the day will bring to deal with. These guys and gals (and guys who act like gals and vice versa) need to get educated and get better training and probably 90 % need to lay off the fried chicken so that they don't have a heart attack if an elevator is out of order. For that matter, look at most cops on the TV news. Wonder how they fit in and out of their vehicles -- and it ain't all muscle, I'm afraid.
Jeez, what's next...an RPG?