from Yahoo News:
KIEV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian scrap metal worker has destroyed two roofs and singed his face after he cut into a 1940s howitzer and accidentally fired off a shell no one had noticed was lodged inside, local media has reported.
Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported on Thursday that the worker had heated the metal by cutting the gun and had triggered the shell, which flew about 800 metres. It said there were no other casualties in the central Ukrainian city of Berdychiv.
The news agency also said the company had paid for repairs to the roofs but work at the scrap yard had been stopped after local prosecutors launched a criminal investigation.
Ukraine, situated between Russia and an expanding European Union ( news - web sites), has a huge arsenal of rusting weapons, which often end up in the country's dozens of scrap yards.
Yep, I popped off an old Nike missile just last week when I was planting some bushes in my front lawn. Third time I hit the ground with a pick and BOOM. My neighbors just applauded since I set off an assload of fireworks every year on the 4th.
And then there was the time my wife tripped walking across the lawn of our old townhouse and fired an entire volley from a buried cache of muskets from the Revolutionary War ...
