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Pipe bomb kills fisherman

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Pipe bomb kills fisherman

Clay City, Ind. - A pipe bomb exploded and instantly killed a Brazil man who may have intended to use the device to stun fish, authorities said.

The body of Paul Lynch, 31, was found early Saturday by friends who had been searching for him since the prior evening.

"A shrapnel piece from the bomb ... passed through Lynch's heart, killing him instantly," Clay County Coroner Rick Swearingen said.

Lynch had been fishing alone in Birch Creek near Clay City, about 60 miles southwest of Indianapolis, and had two of the homemade bombs with him. Bomb technicians from the Indiana State Police Bomb Squad defused the remaining pipe bomb, which was made from a steel pipe.

The pipe bomb may have been intended to be used to stun fish in the creek, Clay County Sheriff Mike Heaton said

Submitted on 08/06/2006

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Reference: Aug 6, 2006 01:23 PM PDT wthr

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James said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
I'd write this off as "too common" (fishing with explosives is a common if illegal practice in certain parts of the world), but this happened here in the USA (where it's VERY illegal), and he had TWO pipe bombs (I guess he wanted "chunk lite" right out of the pond)! Fishing should be enjoyable and us usually one of the safest pastimes, but there's ALWAYS one idiot who carries it too far. I'll go nominal DA...


Fitzroy said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
My Spidey-sense (or was that mail from another moderator?) tells me this one is going to generate many submissions. I can see why, and I don't believe it violates any Darwin Award criteria. With that in mind, I'll go positive on this first of the bunch.


Sheryl said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
It's not quite Darwinesque enough for me but I'll go with it.


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