Reminds me of my home town. For a backwater town it sure got hammered in WWII, including an incendiary bomb dropped on the family home. Even today, a number of duds are pulled from the ground, like a 1/2 ton dud under a playground in what is now the US housing area, and two 1/2 ton duds right along the path I used to walk to college.

The only casualties, ironically, are a pair of American brothers (the article didn’t mention their age) that found a stash of WWII grenades in the forest, took it to the garage and proceeded to open them.

Sounds like a bad opium binge gone wrong.  If only Princess Di were around to see this.  Maybe the family can take the mine manufacturer to international court and sue them for defective warning labels.

capcha = ‘suddenly’ When you strike a mine with a hammer it might ‘suddenly’ explode.

Sometimes Darwin Awards do not do justice to the stupidity involved

I mean really ... WTF was this nimrod thinking anyway?

feh!

Hey, don’t scoff at the poor guy; Metal is a very, very valuable thing in most of the world.

Visit any non-web-pervasive nation’s marketplace and you’ll see all sorts of devices fashioned after old soup tins (often oil lamps), tires (sandels), and anything else that has been heavily processed.  My grandfather, no joke, would wash the tin/aluminium foil and re-use it.

There’s a very good reason why Mao legislated every family to construct a homemade pig-iron smelter during the Great Leap Forward.

So that smart move is to promise somebody else a percentage of the metal if they could get it open.

Why would anyone assume peasants everywhere in the world know what all the different kinds of mines look like? 

A fair example for, say, Americans, would be if you found a mystery appliance sitting by a recycle bin, in good condition.  It looks kind of like a radio, but not exactly.  You need a new power cord for a lamp you have, and the knobs and case look cool, so you figure you could use parts even if it doesn’t work.  You take it home, plug it in, and as you go blind and fall to the floor with a cooked brain, you realize that someone has taken the tube out of a microwave oven and put it in a box so it broadcasts in all directions.  Surprise!