IED mishap

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I love playing insurgents on albrasah (i actually don't but the server switches me there all the time for the past week and i havent held a british gun since, how amusing...), so i try to make the best out of it by setting up IEDs in random spots for all incoming vehicles since doing a suicide car gives me negative points (i really dont get it though)... Now i read the manual and it says u need 15 seconds before it explodes. Well im on my way to challenge the "challenger", and lucky for me hes just riding in circles in the same spot, so i just lay an IED down in the center of his cirlce joyride and step back a few feet. Out of fear that his gunner is just gonna see me run away and shoot me i set off the IED. It couldnt be more than 10 seconds after i placed the IED that i pressed the little red button, and oddly enough... i just blow up, but the challenger is there still doing his little cirlce joy ride... unhurt, undamaged, clueless... umm, is that supposed to happen? I figure i didnt give it enough time to arm (15 second rule, but momma always told me it was 3 second rule) but for me to freakin explode into the air?? thats a but much dontcha think?

PS: i was further away from the IED then the tank was, he was right on top of it actually.