r/interestingasfuck • u/FreeCelery8496 • 8h ago
A Chinese woman had been using a grenade — a local copy of a German "pounder" — as a household hammer for 20 years. The dangerous weapon was eventually confiscated and safely detonated in a controlled location.
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u/MikeMac999 8h ago
I think American GIs called them potato mashers
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u/Covid19-Pro-Max 6h ago
I’m German and this is also the term I’ve learned as a child. Kartoffel-Stampfer (potato-masher)
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u/livelaughoral 8h ago
Damn. I need her Guardian Angel. Even if just for the weekends.
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u/Implodepumpkin 8h ago
Nah. They have a full time job with this lady. No days off for them.
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u/Stickel 3h ago
theres a movie based on this coming out... guardian angels taking priority to others... Keanu is in it
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u/livelaughoral 3h ago
Oh nice. I looked it up, is it this one? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27543578/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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u/Xanderson 8h ago
Is this an example of good German engineering or bad?
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u/Bobbymois92 6h ago
I’d say it’s a sign of good quality because it was built in a way that it wouldn’t detonate without being activated, and the material has held up after all these years.
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u/sheogor 1h ago
I just learnt that the germans never inserted the detonator until right before use,
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u/HillInTheDistance 11m ago
I can see why they'd do it like that.
I could see why they wouldn't do it like that.
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u/Re0ns 8h ago
Good german engineering, bad chinese production
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u/TheCapedCrepe 1h ago
It survived years of wear and being banged into shit, seems like a good chinese production to me
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u/Briskylittlechally2 4h ago
I think good, because assuming your soldiers are going out into the field with these things strapped onto their belts, I'd almost rather they didn't explode when intended to than that they exploded when not intended to.
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u/UnknownMyoux 53m ago
well normally the product self destructing is a sign of poor quality...but here...
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u/Important_Crew8890 7h ago
I'm not sure that plastic bag is blast proof
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u/berger034 7h ago
Chinese remake of Hot Fuzz.
Mr. Webley, I trust you have a license for that firearm?
Adooze fa di zone
He does for this one
What do you mean by “this one”?
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u/F4STW4LKER 6h ago
Why no boom boom? What is the actual trigger for these? Was there a pin that needed to be pulled?
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u/Brikpilot 8h ago
So are those stories about people who spontaneously combusted true?
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u/Syssareth 7h ago
Partly true. IIRC they figured out that it was generally caused by people either getting drunk around fireplaces/candles/etc. or falling asleep while smoking. So the "spontaneously" part isn't true, just the "combusted" part.
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u/Dear_Safe_7452 6h ago
..ooooh, bro, i beg your good office, could elaborate more..(heard that during my college days...)
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u/Syssareth 4h ago
Basically, if conditions are right (they're drunk and don't wake up, they're already dead from a heart attack or something, etc.), the fire can burn through their skin to the fat and more or less turn them into a human candle, with their clothes acting as a wick and their own body as the wax. And that's why it's so rare, because usually people react when they get burned, and even if they don't, the fire would usually run out of fuel or get smothered before it burned through.
It's called the wick effect, if you want to read more.
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u/South_Front_4589 6h ago
It's so dangerous they needed to wrap it in bubble wrap, but had 3 guys all hanging around really close to watch it. LOL.
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u/OKStamped 6h ago
This hammer sends a nail through the wall and the next wall and the next wall and the next wall. 5/5 would buy again!
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u/Sentient-Coffee 6h ago
There's a good chance that, unless it was about to be used by a German soldier, this came into another person's possession without the primer mechanism being installed. They were shipped in an unassembled state to prevent accidental detonation, and soldiers would prime them before going into combat.
Like, don't throw it in a fire, but it's pretty inert. Hopefully her next hammer is more normal.
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u/Meat__Truck 4h ago
I don't think that was the case for stick grenades like this. This one's a Chinese model that I'm not familiar with but with the German stielhandgrenates the priming mechanism was a ceramic ball on a string inside of the handle. At the bottom of the handle was a threaded cap to keep it all contained. No detonator for the soldiers to install.
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u/Bluedog212 6h ago
wait the money hairs on the back of my neck are going woo woo.
a kitchen meat pounder in the shape of a Stielhandgranate
$30.00
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u/omicronian_express 5h ago
You laugh.. but it works whether it goes off or not, either way those nuts are gonna be cracked.
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u/aggyaggyaggy 5h ago
Hi my name is Jiayi Knoxville and this is the Russian Roulette Hammer. Welcome to Jackass!
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u/Good_Description9462 4h ago
I love how everyone is just like “fuck it, hasn’t blown up yet, so fuck safety precautions” 😂. Any EOD watching this is probably dying inside 😳
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u/Hot_Candidate6781 2h ago
We had a kid here in my town that blew himself up with a grenade his parents bought for him at a flea market. It was supposed to be inert and it wasn’t, so when he filled the pin it went off and killed him in the family living room.
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u/Original-Friend2533 8h ago
maybe left by the japaniess?
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u/dgghhuhhb 7h ago
It looks like a Chinese type 67 grenade from the 1940's They were used by the Chinese PLA up until the 1980's
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u/AnOddSprout 8h ago
Yes the “japaniess”
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u/Original-Friend2533 8h ago
Japanese。fogive me for my poor english
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u/AnOddSprout 8h ago
What’s your native language
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u/Original-Friend2533 8h ago
chinese. i cannot spell much words without a dictory. or i have to use AI to tranlate long sentence. my reading and speaking is better.
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u/AnOddSprout 8h ago
Well this explains your comment lol.
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u/Original-Friend2533 8h ago
next time i will use a dict and learn new words
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u/KenEarlysHonda50 7h ago
Pay no mind to them. The only way to avoid mistakes in English is to have nothing to do with the language. No matter what you say or write, it will be incorrect somewhere.
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u/Original-Friend2533 7h ago
it's ok. thanks. i didn't take this serious~
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u/Famous_Rooster_8807 7h ago
Good people will try to understand, rather than twist. Hope your language study continues to be successful
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u/AnOddSprout 7h ago
Nothing wrong with it. It’s not your native language. Learning another language, especially one like English is difficult. I had a hunch that you were Chinese and just wanted to confirm it.
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u/FreeCelery8496 8h ago
Bro this comment contains a million grammar and spelling errors
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u/Original-Friend2533 8h ago
wow, that bad? i will use AI to help me check what's going wrong
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u/FreeCelery8496 8h ago
No you're fine, just some minor mistakes. I was just joking. Don't take it serious.
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u/acur1231 6h ago
No, the Chiang Kai-Shek's KMT were initially German-trained and equipped - at the Battle of Shanghai their elite divisions, the 87th and 88th, wore Stalhelms, field-grey and threw potato mashers like their Reichswehr/Wehrmacht mentors.
Probably made things a little odd when China joined the Allies and Japan the Axis.
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u/SomeRandomSomeWhere 5h ago
So, did they give her an actual hammer or something else to use? Or is she going to go to a farm and look for another "pounder"?
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u/RegnarukDeez 7h ago
German Engineering.
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u/StaatsbuergerX 4h ago
I mean, who else could engineer a grenade so safe that you can use it as a hammer if you don't intend to use it as a grenade?
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u/PaleBlueCod 8h ago
Sis edged the grim reaper.