Exploding Gecko

Generally I’m a pretty compassionate person, but there are limits.  Apparently that amazing ability of the human psyche to convince itself “that couldn’t happen to me” extends even to those living in a city in a war zone.

Call me crazy, but if you live in a city that has a serious VBIED threat I would think you’d probably be pretty careful where you park.

Well not this guy.  He decided there wouldn’t be anything wrong with parking his car on a busy market street that had been barricaded off (he had to drive over the sidewalk to get past the barricades), locking it up and wandering off to do some shopping.

Understandably, somebody got worried and called the authorities who called us with the rather predictable results (this isn’t the first suspected VBIED in Kirkuk and it won’t be the last) seen in the photo linked above.

Hopefully the guy learned his leason, I certainly enjoyed administering it.

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