Gift giving is a traditional practice during the yearend holiday season. Two ways employees observe the custom is through exchange gift and monito-monita while employers raffle off presents during Christmas party.

In one such party this month, unusual gifts were raffled off to participants. Attendees to the Philippine Mortuary Association's party, however, were not surprised to win prizes such as a casket. Other partygoers won formaldehyde for embalming corpse and marble urns for containing ash of a cremated body.

The very alive prize winners probably sold the expensive casket and urns to funeral customers or other members of the association as they wouldn't be needing them yet for themselves.

Meanwhile, the head of Poland's national police, Gen. Jarosław Szymczyk, received a scrap weapon converted into a bluetooth speaker from his Ukrainian counterpart, Ihor Klymenka, as a token when he recently visited the neighboring country.

Ukrainian general Dymytro Bondar, deputy head of the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations, also gifted Szymczyk with a similar tube.

Szymczyk displayed both gifts at his office in Warsaw. Last 14 December, he was reportedly moving the tubes when one of it exploded, The First News reported. The police chief was shaken and another person was slightly injured from the blast that damaged the police headquarters' floor and ceiling, according to NBC News.

In an interview with Radio RMF FM, Szymczyk confirmed earlier reports that the grenade launcher given to him by Bondar exploded despite being assured that it was scrap metal without explosives.

Poland's interior minister, Mariusz Kaminski, said Ukrainian authorities suspended Bondar and criminal proceedings were started against him.

Szymczyk was lucky enough to escape death and serious injury from the exploding souvenir. His health was a better gift than anything else anyone could give.