All,

Had this sent to me. A group of Iraqi militiamen try to disarm an IED by digging it out. Predictable results.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=18f_1201000704

I had an IP do this once in my AO. We had a cordon set and were sending the robot for a look. We saw a 122mm shell with a motorola attached. We called EOD and waited. Suddenly an IP walks to the IED and grabs the motorola off of it with a 5ft stick. He waives at us and says it's all safe. Needless to say I waited until EOD arrived to approach. My guys often would have locals walk up to them and say they found an IED, when we went to investigate, often they had disarmed the thing themselves and were proud of turning it in. We also had many times when Iraqi police or Army wanted to "fiddle" with the IED rather than wait for the pro. <sigh>

Wow. Darwin at work. So sad though.