Cigarette Lighter Triggers Fatal Explosion 
1996 Darwin Award Nominee
Confirmed True by Darwin


"A cigarette lighter may have triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, IN.  A Jay
Countryman, using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a muzzle loader, was
killed Monday night when the weapon discharged in his face, sheriff's investigators
said. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died in his parents' rural Dunkirk home at about
11:30 PM. Investigators said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber muzzle-loader that had
not been firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the barrel when the
gunpowder ignited."