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A Montenegrin family thought a World War II artillery shell was the ideal replacement for a broken table leg–until it exploded, injuring eight people.

The Miskovic family in the town of Danilovgrad was preparing the local specialty of grilled pork fat when the old shell went off, the Yugoslav daily Vecernje Novosti reported Monday.

But “all of a sudden, we heard a loud bang and then everything went black,” Milovan Miskovic said.