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While on a deployment to Kosovo as a military policeman, we got a call to the local market regarding a grenade that was found. While in route, we were notified the grenade had detonated, and there was at least one injury. Upon our arrival, we discovered the obvious, the injury was fatal. Although we can't be completely sure what happened, here is what the investigation revealed, and that was good enough for the UN police. According to friends and family, this poor Serbian man would put all kinds of grenades and explosives around his shop to prevent break-ins. This fatal morning, while he was opening his shop for business, he was removing the explosives. Apparently, he removed them fairly efficiently but did not disarm them properly. The injury and damage to his body indicated he was holding a nice pile of explosives close to his body when it detonated. With police and military from around the world standing just outside his shop, there were no break-ins that day.

Submitted on 09/29/2002

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: Stars&Stripes/AP Jan7-9,2002

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Jack said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes
I honestly don't know what it is about people in a war zone (or former war zone) that leads them to treat explozive devices as toys, but it happens - from people picking up American Civil War cannon balls and putting them on the hearth to European farmers plowing up WW I munitions and trying to disarm them themselves to this. Kinda reminds me of the story of the man who kept poisonous snakes in his store at night....


Charles said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
Another case of idiots and explosives...


Gregory said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
Not sure why we never saw this one at the time. Confirmation? I agree that blowing up your shop to prevent burlary is not the best idea.


Bert said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
Wouldn't blowing up his shop be as bad for business as being burgled???


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