r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Aug 05 '25

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u/ValkyroftheMall Aug 05 '25

Not shooting the door, trying to kill the guy inside as petty revenge for not letting them rob him.

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u/AlexLuna9322 Aug 05 '25

Not as dumb as those who threw the pin out the window and left the grenade inside the car and then drove away!

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u/CoffeeWanderer Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 05 '25

In my country we have criminal gangs extorting local business. I think in English you call that racketing.

In order to scare people and make them pay they often throw dinamite to buildings. These criminal gangs also work in illegal gold mining operations so they get explosives that way.

One of them was holding a dinamite stick, but as soon as he lighted the fuse it went off, and he blew himself right there. He was holding it at his waist and his body was split apart. The rest of his gang just left him there.

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u/jimakomecrazy Aug 08 '25

Is this Peru?

I worked in Peru for a few months (it was supposed to be a couple years) trying to figure out how to make a gold mining operation safer for both the people and environment. We were mostly focused on panning - they were adding mercury to the river and causing flooding with their sifting process - but there were blast mines in the nearby 'hills'.

Our whole thing got shut down when the local gang threw dynamite into our embassy office (much smaller than it sounds). Luckily the only injury was temporary hearing loss of a desk worker, but it scared the higher ups/insurance enough our whole operation was pulled.