I've told this story before, but here goes.
When I was in Yuma I worked on a site of maybe 15 guys, but we always seemed to be short of 1 guy for whatever reason. We couldn't get a lasting new tech. Well we has an unconventional approach to hiring basically you work two days and we decide if we all like you. We had about six hires in one year and I was whining about picking up the slack all the time because we were understaffed. So my big boss says "fuck it then you do better" so I got this guy in for a trial, first day he showed up in a suit, which I told him not to, and when he was talking to folks he did awesome, was quizzing all our pilots etc like they were on the spot. Our programmer thought it was someone from the government. Anyway we hired him. Two weeks later we had Christmas holidays. I came back on the Tuesday for whatever reason, and when I get back people are all "sorry about gene song" and I was like no way that motherfucker quit??
Nah
On New year's he'd made a homemade firework, went to set it off on the beach, blew his hand to bits and they had to amputate it. Witnesses saw him running in pain while his kid ran after him. This was Florida.
Cops were gonna do him with a felony for setting off a bomb but figured he suffered enough.
Guy had a ts sci clearance and the best resume I've ever seen working for DoD.
Think the next guy we hired got sacked for downloading pornos on army WiFi.