Sounds like maybe it was a dud or only partially made-safe. Maybe just a primary charge.

We started a go-fund me to get him another grenade for his keys.

This is the most American thing I have ever read.

It happened in Zimbabwe

By astronomical scale, they're practically right next to each other.

hate it when my key grenade prematurely detonates

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On an astronomical scale they are the same thing.

Next time will be the last time

Probably have to get a new key ring too. He lost the other one. He can't quite put his finger on where they are.

I wonder what caused the grenade to suddenly explode.

Let's see what the article has to say about that:

>On January 12 at around 3 PM, he pulled the safety pin of the hand grenade and it exploded twice in his right hand.

That sounds about right. Though I do wonder what it means for it to explode twice. Maybe the article is counting the ignition as an "explosion?"

He was lucky he didn't have his keys in his pocket at the time. Fingers might not have been all he lost...

And the darwin award goes to...

You should see what happened to the pool boy.

Maybe it malfunctioned? Like part of it had a delayed ignition of some kind, gun powder can go funky if its too old if i recall correctly

I wonder if he had a habit of repeatedly pulling the pin out and putting it back in. Knowing exactly fuckall about how grenades work, I'm wondering if maybe that might have done something over time.

Pulling the pin strikes a fuse. Putting it back doesn’t help.

Could've been a flash bang. Those often explode multiple times (unlike what you'd think when you've seen them in video games or movies)

Edit: also worth pointing out is that he only lost four fingers which leads me to believe it certainly wasn't a fragmentation grenade

It does if you hold the lever down

Pulling the pin doesn't strike the fuse. The pin is the final safety locking a lever called the spoon down. As long as that lever is held down, the pin can be reinserted. The lever is under spring tension, and when it flies up, it strikes a primer that ignites the fuse.

Wrong. The pin holds the lever in place, as a safety. You pull the pin, and then when you let go of it, the lever itself has a mechanism that scrapes the fuse. Other designs have different mechanisms to time them, but not that one.

And I thought I was hard core having a swiss army knife on my keys...

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What the fuck? Oh, co.zw yeah that tracks