Trick Bomb: Difference between revisions

* There was a Propaganda Bomb in an early episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|MashM*A*S*H]]''. A friendly fire bomb landed at the unit, and didn't explode. Hawkeye and his friends tried to disarm it but that just set it off, which is when they discovered it was only leaflets. The propaganda read:

* Anti-handling devices (trick fuses intended to amputate the hand of a disposal tech) are often placed in bombs. It is probably even more common in movies thenthan in real life as cool MacGyverish heroes can thereby be shown to do stunts. Whereas in real life it is often cost -effective simply to have auxiliary troops drop lots of fairly crude gadgets by the road and if one goes off before the mission is complete there isare [[Cannon Fodder|more where that comescame from.]]