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There are so many cases of people dying in explosions, either for being caught in one, or causing it themselves by mere accident or foolishness. Therefore, this warrants 1000 Ways to Die a Stuff Blowing Up subpage.


  • "De-Throned": A Jerkass biker who routinely abuses his "maid" (a waitress forced to do housework for the jerk to pay off a gambling debt), gets blown up after throwing his cigarette in the toilet after taking a dump (which was filled with gasoline that he purposely spilled on the carpet for the girl to clean up, who then poured it into the toilet and forgot to flush). Considering he routinely made her time a living hell and took sadistic enjoyment in doing so, she is happy when he dies.
  • "Les-Boned": A bisexual real estate agent and a lesbian client get it on top of a washing machine, which explodes due to a methane gas leak ignited by a water heater.
  • "Art Attack": A pervert who fakes being a French artist to attract ladies and has succeeded in getting some with them but fails his latest attempt with a woman who saw through his scheme. In a fit of anger, he hits the "sculpture" he found in a junkyard and used to seduce her, causing it to explode in his face and sending a load of shrapnel directly into his head. It turns out the thing was an inactive "butterfly bomb".
  • "Tali-Bombed": The story of the two terrorists who set up a GPS-timed bomb and blew up when they forgot that the timer they used resets itself for Daylight Saving Time.
  • "Bibli-Killed": Two con artists posing as Bible salesmen take shelter inside a grain silo to hide from a shotgun-wielding farmer's wife who overhears them having sex with her granddaughter — and then blows up when one of them lights a flame that reacts with the grain dust.
  • "Butt F***ed": A smoker previously lit on fire from falling asleep with a cigarette in his mouth ends up in the hospital, is wrapped in flammable ointment and bandages, and ends when he sets himself on fire again and has his oxygen tank explode.
  • "Red, White, and Blew": A redneck looks down into the barrel of a homemade firework launcher— right as a firework goes off into flies into his skull.
  • "Tanked Girl": A woman inside a decompression chamber explodes when a maintenance worker accidentally opens the door to the chamber, altering the pressure inside.
  • "Micro Whacked": A drug addict who uses four drugs at once, puts his lava lamp into the microwave to heat it up and make it move faster, only for it to explode, sending shards of glass and wax into his face.
  • "Clay Achin": In which stoners try to bake a bong in a kiln and, after the fire goes out, try to light it with a match, blowing up the kiln and blasting shards of clay into their faces.
  • "Jaw-Boned": A methhead takes to dipping his chewing gum in citric acid to keep it fresh while cooking up meth, only to one day accidentally dip it in red phosphorous and subsequently blow his jaw off when his bite ignites the powder.
  • "Poker Face": A death row inmate tries to make a pipe bomb using playing cards, which, in the '30s, were coated in nitrocellulose, a highly volatile substance when mixed with hot water. He heats the bomb, but when it doesn't explode, picks it up to examine it, in the process completing the nitrocellulose/hot water combination and making it explode in his face.
  • "Kung Pao Pow!!!": A greedy mortician who illegally extracted gold from the corpses he handled before their cremation bites it when the latest arrival turns out to have died from a weather rocket warhead lodged into his chest. The gunpowder inside the warhead reacts with the crematorium's fires and forces the door off its hinges, decapitating the greedy bastard.
  • "Doggie Styled": A pair of drunk redneck hunters throw a stick of dynamite to flush out ducks, only for their golden retriever (who is telling the story through his eyes) to return it to them. You can almost hear the Looney Tunes theme playing.
  • "Withdrawn": A bank robber constructs an explosive collar to make a bank teller think he's being coerced into doing the real bad guys' dirty work. When said teller makes her exit and uses an electronic key to unlock her door, she accidentally sets off the bomb.
  • "Chicken Boned": A group of extremely bored teenagers plays games of chicken, one of which being who can stand having a lit stick of homemade explosives in their mouth the longest. One guy spits his out. The other, cheering for his own victory, accidentally swallows his explosive, which then blows out his trachea and causes him to choke on his own blood.
  • "As-Capped": A geriatric and quite senile old music producer threatens his band with a gun. While going off on a rant, he accidentally shoots his oxygen tank. It does not end well for him.
  • "Dead Kacynski": A Conspiracy Theorist who lived with his girlfriend off the grid in a cabin powered with a stockpile of car batteries schemed to terrorize a federal court. After he kicked her out for questioning him too many times, he attempted to connect an old mimeograph to write his manifesto, but the batteries gave out and exploded, showering him with sulphuric acid, which caused him to die both from the explosion impact breaking some of his bones and the third-degree burns caused by the acid.
  • "Bomb-bino": Two Mafiosi force a man to dig his own grave for defaulting in paying his loans. When both close in to check how he's doing, the man ends up digging out a WWII grenade into their feet, which goes off and kills both mobsters. The man, on the other hand, is safe because his intended grave sheltered him under the shockwave, and he leaves thanking his lucky stars for his survival.
  • "Suck & Blown": Two gasoline thieves try to facilitate their job by using an industrial vacuum cleaner, which turned out to be a bad idea as a spark from the vacuum's electric fan ignites the lot of gasoline obtained, causing it to explode and take the two crooks out.
  • "Miner Injuries": A mining foreman who abused his employees especially when they fell ill, meets his demise when one employee starts coughing blood and he does the job himself. While his employees smelled the methane and warned him to not do that, he scornfully ignored them before a spark of the pickaxe ignited the methane pocket. As a result, several rock fragments flew into his skull, killing the greedy bastard of massive hemorrhaging from the impact.
  • "Crack Piped": Two underground thieves exploit the early banks' pneumatic tubing system by cutting off one of the tubes and jamming a block of wood to catch the incoming money capsules. However, more capsules started to back up in the jammed tube, building up negative pressure while they enjoyed their stolen money. When they tried to pull out the block to get the rest, the tube exploded on their faces, sending tube shrapnel into their vital areas.

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