** Though, admittedly, it wouldn't look very cool.
* Bill Mauldin mentions two variations in his WorldWarTwo memoir ''Up Front'': The first was a soldier who straightened the pins to make them easy to pull, the second was a soldier who fastened grenades to his belt by their pins so he could just pluck them and throw them. Both are implied to be pathologically aggressive (not to mention walking time bombs, as the Mk 2 grenade had a nasty tendency to spontaneously unpin themselves if you do not bend and secure the pin with duct tape--that's how Senator Max Cleland lost three limbs in Vietnam, and the grenade wasn't even his own).
** Cleland lost three limbs because as he and other members of his unit were exiting a helicopter the man in front of him, who had straightened the pins on his own grenades, then hung them by the pins from his web gear, jarred one loose when he jumped out. Cleland saw it on the ground and instead of running the hell away in case it was live bent down to pick it up. Boom!
* In a related example the World War 2 Japanese [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee_mortar Type 89 Grenade Launcher]] was known to the Allies as the '''Knee Mortar''' due to its monopod base plate that looked like it was designed to fit on top of a person's thigh for firing. However in reality the device was designed to be fired with the base on the ground and attempting to fire the weapon as its nickname implied would result in a broken femur from the heavy recoil force.

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