I had a friend who lived in Oakville and was fed up with his garbagr being strewn around and the can tipped over. He thought "I'll just cut the end off an extention cord,put one end on the lid and the other on the handle".He wets the ground down around the can and goes to work. Gets home and his new neighbors dog is deader than a rat. There is more to the story but the point being if your saw,drill, or other tool had a really bad short you didn't know about (wink) and someone tried to liberate it---
Just a thought.