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** A russian bomber died when his remote controlled bomb went off while he was transporting it to the Moscow airport. He had rigged a cell phone detonator and a [[Laser-Guided Karma|telemarketer called him during transit.]]
** A pair of terrorists once tried to blow up the Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center in Manila in 1991. They tried to set the bomb in the middle of the night, using a device rigged with a digital reader to count down the time. They armed it, but forgot what they set the time to. They check the time on the highly volatile explosives with a zippo lighter...but this is not what makes them fall under this trope. What makes them fall into this trope is that they set the bomb down upside down, and suddenly realized that when they set the bomb for five minutes they actually set it for ''[[Oh Crap|five seconds]]''. Surprisingly, one of the bombers actually survived and was caught in a local hospital.
* 4th of July [[Alcohol
* Methamphetamine labs. The chemicals used to make the drug are highly explosive, and the people making the drug are often not the brightest chemists ever. Sadly, in this form of [[Explosive Stupidity]], [[Tear Jerker|the cookers usually aren't the only ones to get blown up.]]
* How many of us remember the cautionary tale of what happened to Uncle X and the time he put a turkey in a deep-fat fryer on Thanksgiving/Christmas Eve?
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* This can happen in pretty much every [[First-Person Shooter]] game that features "grenade cooking" (waiting a few seconds before throwing a live grenade to give your enemy less time to run away or throw it back), if you hold the grenade for too long.
** Or, if the game isn't [[Friendly Fireproof]], you can easily blow up yourself and/or your teammates with explosives if you're not careful.
** Or as a result of [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]. For example, ''[[Modern Warfare]]''s "throw grenade" is ''[[Halo]] 3''s "reload" button, and ''[[Halo]] 3''s "throw grenade" button is ''[[Modern Warfare]]''s "aim" button. Don't stand in front of anyone who's just switched from one game to the other.
** As a result of [[Artificial Stupidity]], [[Mook|Mooks]] also frequently do this to themselves, and conversely, both your allies and enemies are often too stupid to take cover from the blast.
* ''[[Star Warsthe Old Republic]]'': One type of [[
* Mishandled bomb rocks in the original ''[[Pikmin]]'' can inadvertently wipe out a good chunk of your troops if you're unlucky.
* Common in ''[[Bomberman (Video Game)|Bomberman]]'', though some later games in the series make bombs [[Color-Coded Multiplayer|color-coded to somewhat lessen the confusion]].
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