Tractor Tom
Contributor
...and NOT travel with these things?
"Did I say I was going to travel with them?
To travel with lead weights would be stupid!"
If you put these things on your rig, and they are seen at the gas station on the way to the dive, you may have trouble. A stop by a cop on the way to a dive will be trouble if he asks you to open your bag. A stop by the Coast Guard while on a boat will cause REAL trouble. Walk into the water past a group of folks on the beach will have you met by the local law enforcement when you walk back out of the water. This 'IDEA' of using grenades for weights (inert or not) is an extreamly BAD IDEA, unless you like being hounded by the police in your area.
In todays climate of anti-terrorism, anything that LOOKS like a gun, is a gun in the eyes of the uninformed, and the same goes for grenades! Anything that LOOKS like a grenade, is a grenade and will cause you to be hauled up in front of the local constabulary. I spent a lot of years in the military, used to keep an inert pinapple grenade on my desk at work when I worked at the battalion HQ. I know what a real grenade looks and feels like. Does your local cop on the street? I really doubt it. So, he slaps you in cuffs, calls the local bomb squad and they either take you new weights, or place them in a safe area and try to detonate them...either way, you lose.
Good luck man! You are going to need it!
Call me the UBER NERD if you want, but I won't go around with fake grenades on my rig...
"Did I say I was going to travel with them?
To travel with lead weights would be stupid!"
If you put these things on your rig, and they are seen at the gas station on the way to the dive, you may have trouble. A stop by a cop on the way to a dive will be trouble if he asks you to open your bag. A stop by the Coast Guard while on a boat will cause REAL trouble. Walk into the water past a group of folks on the beach will have you met by the local law enforcement when you walk back out of the water. This 'IDEA' of using grenades for weights (inert or not) is an extreamly BAD IDEA, unless you like being hounded by the police in your area.
In todays climate of anti-terrorism, anything that LOOKS like a gun, is a gun in the eyes of the uninformed, and the same goes for grenades! Anything that LOOKS like a grenade, is a grenade and will cause you to be hauled up in front of the local constabulary. I spent a lot of years in the military, used to keep an inert pinapple grenade on my desk at work when I worked at the battalion HQ. I know what a real grenade looks and feels like. Does your local cop on the street? I really doubt it. So, he slaps you in cuffs, calls the local bomb squad and they either take you new weights, or place them in a safe area and try to detonate them...either way, you lose.
Good luck man! You are going to need it!
Call me the UBER NERD if you want, but I won't go around with fake grenades on my rig...
