79-Year-Old-Man Accidentally Kills Himself While Preparing Dinner

Dethy’s undoing

Credit: Re-enactment from “Curious and Unusual Deaths,” Netflix

And it was his failing memory which caused the mishap.
The trap that sealed Dethy’s fate was one in plain sight – a soup dish on a shelf. When the soup ladle was moved, the lines that connected it to a modified shotgun would pull back its trigger. The set up was so sensitive that when the ladle was pulled, the modified shotgun was activated very easily.

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