Yes, it can happen to you. Well, maybe not you, but someone else:
Dropping something may have saved Joy Horton’s life. The 73-year-old woman was preparing some food in her western New York home on Monday morning when she dropped a spoon on the floor of her kitchen. When she bent down, her house exploded.
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Fire officials said that because Horton was bending down when the explosion occurred, the kitchen sink and counter top helped keep debris from hitting her.
(via BoGlo/AP: “Spoon drop saves woman’s life” [Aug 21, 2007])