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11-01-2014, 12:33 PM
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Unlucky Strike

In 1981 Paul Gauchi, 41, from Malta, made himself a mallet by welding an old tin can on to a metal pipe. the can turned out to be a wartime butterfly bomb, which exploded and killed him!
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11-01-2014, 12:57 PM
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Re: Unlucky Strike

God rest him and all that but it was a stupid thing to do, surely he knew by the weight of the can that it wasn't full of beans.
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11-01-2014, 01:03 PM
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Now that really is unlucky !
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11-01-2014, 01:50 PM
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He wont do that again !
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Given where he comes from, I'm surprised he didn't know not to pick up odd bits of metal. Even now, they're still finding unexploded ordnance.
 

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