11 Deaths That Could’ve Been Avoided With Common Sense

9. An Explosive Finnish

Two brothers-in-law in Finland happened to be huge collectors of military armaments. By the time of death, these two Finns had collected over one hundred frag grenades, bazookas, fuse materials, and ammunition. In Canada, these sorts of collections can only be had illegally, or by way of a prohibited firearms license, an enormous amount of paperwork, and routine checks and charges. However, in Finland, no one batted an eye about this collection… until one fateful day. Working in their garage, one of the gents was diffusing a grenade from their collection (why they didn’t have this done professionally is mind boggling). This was no regular grenade either: it was an anti-tank grenade. Thankfully it wasn’t a phosphorous grenade, but an anti-tank grenade can really go boom. Luckily for one of the gents, there was only a small explosion. The fairly old explosive materials simply combusted and burned, creating a comparatively small explosion to what could have happened. The man holding the grenade died in transit to the hospital, and his brother-in-law managed to survive with serious injuries. Lucky for the community that the rest of armaments didn’t go off. Lesson learned: don’t disarm explosives in your garage… give them to a professional.