Police: PAD blast caused by grenade

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• Bubba

  Discussion 10 : 16/11/2009 at 08:02 PM10

  MMOUSE: So, it must have been a very very very very very big firecracker...

• MMouse

  Discussion 9 : 16/11/2009 at 06:42 PM9

  The M79 can be used to fire many different types of munitions it was first used during the Vietnam war to fire 40mm shells.(also from Wickipedia) Given the damage done it clearly was not a CS or sponge round. Anything that can make an 8metre diameter hole, damage 2 cars and injure 12 people strikes me as being quite lethal.

• Bubba

  Discussion 8 : 16/11/2009 at 05:08 PM8

  - "The explosion took place behind the stage at around 9pm, injuring 12 people. The grenade damaged two cars and created a hole approximately eight metres wide."
  
  ah...that would be one very big firecracker?
  
  
  - "the attacker launched the grenade with the M79 launcher from the City Pillar Shrine near Lod Canal, or about 350 metres away from the yellow-shirt gathering. The grenade's trajectory indicated that it could not be thrown by a person from a close distance."
  
  ah...yesterday they said they had arrested "the guy" who had driven past on a motorcycle and thrown the "firecracker"?
  
  MMOUSE: Actually, considering the way WAYNE writes...that could well be a marine...
  
  (sorry, I couldn't resist that)

• middle man

  Discussion 7 : 16/11/2009 at 05:07 PM7

  here is a copy from wikipedia
  The M79 has been used extensively also for crowd control purposes where it is desirable to have a weapon dedicated solely to less-lethal force. The three common less-lethal rounds are the M651 CS gas, the M1006 sponge grenade, and the M1029 Crowd Dispersal rounds.
  
  check it before make noise without fact wayne is correct.

• MMouse

  Discussion 6 : 16/11/2009 at 04:07 PM6

  discussion 3 I doubt your real name is Wayne as your written English is terrible for a native and has many Thai type mistakes.
  Maybe you're trying to mislead people do you know something about this?

• MMouse

  Discussion 5 : 16/11/2009 at 03:52 PM5

  So of course there's no military involvement because we all know that loads of people have M79 grenade launchers at home.

• stalingrad

  Discussion 4 : 16/11/2009 at 02:28 PM4

  Ridiculous statement on intent to kill or not as if there's a whole lot of difference in this case; it was a grenade and no matter how you cut it, the shooter knew that it might kill or wound people--perhaps resulting in permanent disability. His intention was vile all the same, and any retort that it wasn't intended to kill would bring the house down with laughter, as it was fired into a crowd, and such grenades did kill several in Government House last year.
  
  Don't have to be an Einstein to deduce who was responsible. It's just that the authorities don't have the guts to follow their instincts.

• wayne

  Discussion 3 : 16/11/2009 at 01:46 PM3

  I have serve in the US marine for 8 year m79 is weapon of choice it not design to kill it design to cause injury the fragments the same size rice grain you won't miss it when it launched it make quite a noise, the possibility in the dense populate area like bangkok is launch from the roof top of the building.

• TingTong Man

  Discussion 2 : 16/11/2009 at 01:21 PM2

  Is this the "giant firecracker" alluded to in another story?

• Sceptic

  Discussion 1 : 16/11/2009 at 01:15 PM1

  So far as I am aware the M79 is a grenade launcher and not, as the police say, a grenade in itself. It can actually be used to fire a wide range of devices, not all of them lethal. Known as the Wombat it has a very distinctive report when fired. Have the police actually been able to identify the grenade itself?