From the look of it, the grenade was on some kind of handle, and fell off of the handle while being thrown. Unless there is some technique for holding the explosive on its handle during the throw, I'd blame this on equipment failure.
When I was in college, I scrounged three bags of shredded forms from the administration building. I stashed them under my desk and used them when I needed to take a nap.
The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour BMJ 2014; 349 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7094 (Published 11 December 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g7094
This paper reports a marked sex difference in Darwin Award winners: males are significantly more likely to receive the award than females (P<0.0001). We discuss some of the reasons for this difference.
1 Kings, Chapter 17 1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe[a] in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”
2 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 3 “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4 You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”
5 So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
The BBC and the British Museum had a radio series called "A History of the World in 100 Objects" that may be of interest. One of the cuneiform tablets is featured: an invoice for beer allocations to a gang of workers, I think.
A baby 'born under a caul' is supposed to be lucky, or have powers of clairvoyance. One can only guess what influence can be had by being born completely enclosed like this.
The 'creepy crawlers plastigoop ' actually came in an edible version at one time. No mention of driving without seat belts (or shoulder belts). In school, when kids made things in clay to bring home, a very common item to make was an ashtray.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maos82cqguo
The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour
BMJ 2014; 349 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7094 (Published 11 December 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g7094
This paper reports a marked sex difference in Darwin Award winners: males are significantly more likely to receive the award than females (P<0.0001). We discuss some of the reasons for this difference.
1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe[a] in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”
2 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 3 “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4 You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”
5 So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
No mention of driving without seat belts (or shoulder belts).
In school, when kids made things in clay to bring home, a very common item to make was an ashtray.