Exploding table leg injures eight

reuters ^ | 11-25-02

[Jimmyclyde]

Exploding Table Leg Injures Eight

BELGRADE (Reuters) -

A Montenegrin family thought a World War II artillery shell was the ideal replacement for a broken table leg -- until it exploded, injuring eight people as they were about to eat a meal.

The Miskovic family in the town of Danilovgrad was preparing the local specialty of grilled pork fat on the table when the old shell went off at the weekend, the Yugoslav daily Vecernje Novosti reported on Monday.

"It was our own idea to replace the missing leg with this cannon grenade," house owner Milovan Miskovic said. "We thought it was harmless...it was here in our courtyard for some 50 years."

But "all of a sudden, we heard a loud bang and then everything went black."

The newspaper reported the victims suffered only light injuries

[Jimmyclyde]

Note to self...

Don't cook pig fat on artillery shell.

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

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[Admin Moderator]

Please stop posting unimportant items to the breaking news sidebar. Thank you.

[contessa machiaveli]

that old grenade over there would make an awful purty chandelier.

[socal_parrot]

But "all of a sudden, we heard a loud bang and then everything went black."

Sounds like the usual Thanksgiving at my house.

[socal_parrot]

zot?

[general_re]

What? This is important - I'm unscrewing 88 mm artillery shells from half the furniture in my house right now. If this article wasn't here, I never would have known that this kind of thing was dangerous...

[Vidalia]

"We thought it was harmless...it was here in our courtyard for some 50 years."

Much like the Liberal National-Socialist Left...

[pgyanke]

Obviously thought the Darwin Award was more attainable than the Nobel Prize...

[agenda_express]

When I first saw this headline, for some reason I expected this story to come from France. "We surrender."