A startling amount of these award winners involve garden sheds. Take the following as a lesson. Whatever wide range of hobbies and activities you chose to do in your garden sheds, don't try any of these.
Over in France this February, a 71-year old pensioner decided to illuminate his shed and garden with power siphoned from the National Grid. The Frenchman illegally opened a major power junction box at the front of his maison to hard-wire a cable to his garden shed. While it was raining. He was electrocuted declared dead at the scene.
There's an honorable mention to a man who, in 2002, was hell-bent on defending his shed. To prevent burglars breaking into his shed in Holland, the man built a booby trap, using ropes and a shotgun aimed at the door. Now, anyone who's ever seen a cartoon knows this is a bad idea.
However, this 66-year-old obviously hadn't and was so proud of his work he demonstrated his trap to two friends. His well constructed booby trap managed to shoot him in the abdomen and lower arm. The man only gains an honorable mention as an emergency operation saved him.
Makes you wonder what he had in his shed to be so determined to protect it, turned out it was 15 full grown marijuana plants. At least it wasn't a grenade. Nobody would have a grenade in their garden shed would they?
Back in 2005 a semi-retired Croatian man decided to head to his shed and create a tool for cleaning the chimney. It was too tall a task for a broom but if he could attach a brush to a chain and weigh it down with something, that might work. But with what? Well why not a grenade? Yep. It's small, heavy and made of metal so it could be welded to the chain.
Doesn't matter that it's full of explosive, right? Again; anyone who's seen a cartoon. When the welding torch heated the metal of the grenade it exploded, killing the man instantly, destroying the shed and the Mercedes parked outside.
Of course, there's lessons to learn here. Don't try messing with the national power grid, especially in the rain. Don't smoke a lot weed and keep shotguns and don't take explosives into your garden sheds to heat them up. Or heat them up at all.
Garden sheds represent have a variety of possible uses outside of storing tools and gardening equipment. They can be turned into saunas, gyms, anything but a death-trap.
Tony is an online marketer, article writer and researcher. He is currently researching sheds and Garden Sheds
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