Death By Home Hardware Curious and Unusual Deaths : Season 2 Episode 13

“Death, Calling …”: A military cadet, visiting his grandmother, answered the phone. At the same moment, a thunderstorm passed overhead and lightning struck a metal plumbing vent. Every electrical line in the house was charged, including the phone line and it wasn’t the line that went dead, but the cadet. “The Maltese Butterfly”: A farmer was harvesting his potatoes and pulled an odd-looking, iron canister from the dirt. Being a frugal man, he turned it into a sledgehammer. But he didn’t realize that the device was actually a German butterfly bomb and it exploded the first time he used it. “Exploding Laptop”: A man left his laptop on a couch. But the Lithium ion batteries malfunction and the couch is set on fire. The flames spread quickly and he is unable to escape