Do-It-Yourself Landmine

[Team Infidel]

2004 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin​

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(27 May 2004, Italy) When Peraldo found sticks of old dynamite in an abandoned stable on the hill above his vineyard, he decided to bury the problem. Some might think that burying unstable dynamite would be...unwise. But not Peraldo, a 67-year-old retired entrepreneur, who had been an explosives expert in the army. He had also worked as a licensed "fuochino" in charge of explosives at construction sites prior to his retirement. He knew the ways of things that go boom.
This dynamite had been sitting around for some time, decaying and sweating highly unstable nitroglycerin. Peraldo carefully placed the high explosives in a hole thirty meters away from the stable, and gently covered them with loose earth. Apparently the mound was a little too high to be aesthetically attractive, so Peraldo began patting it down with his hands...
The massive blast rocked the entire town of Chiavenna. Police rushed to the vineyard to investigate. Peraldo was found torn to shreds, but miraculously, still alive and able to explain what had happened before he died from internal injuries.
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[bulldogg]

I remember when I was going through a mining safety course for LaFarge they said most accidents occured within two time frames, one with the new guy out to impress who knows sfa and the other was the old hands who got too comfortable after 10 years plus at the job. Here's proof of the latter claim.
Damn.