[news AP] Exploding paperweight severs teacher’s hand

[Hellfighter]

Exploding paperweight severs teacher’s hand
40 mm round of ammunition goes off when instructor strikes it in class

Updated: 5:53 p.m. ET April 4, 2006
VENTURA, Calif. - Part of a teacher's hand was blown off when a 40 mm round of ammunition the instructor used as a paperweight on his desk exploded in his classroom.

Robert Colla struck the round with an object Monday afternoon while teaching 20 to 25 students at the Ventura Adult Education Center.

Part of Colla's right hand was severed and he suffered severe burns and minor shrapnel wounds to his forearms and torso, fire Capt. Tom Weinell said. No one else was injured.

Colla was taken to a hospital, where he was in stable condition.

"It was just a horrible accident," said Dennis Huston, who teaches computer design alongside Colla. Huston said he had his back turned to Colla and was only about three feet away when he heard a loud bang.

Colla found the 40 mm round while hunting years ago, Huston said. He used it as a paperweight and "obviously he didn't think the round was live," Huston said.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12156634/

if you find any type of ammo in the wild open country side leave it, its a ticking time bomb sooner or later get you in the end.

and he was teaching what? Adult Education Class and he had a live ammo on his desktop? i think he learn the hardway, what you may find not always a dude.

[Lucky]

wow...