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So it's sad, but I admit to a slight chuckle when the article ended with "Police found no evidence of drug or alcohol use."
I assume he wanted to see what would happen if he increased the heat differential between the bottom and top of the lava lamp, I'm rather impressed he'd thought of that, and yet didn't think about perhaps a more sane way of achieving it or protecting himself.
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There are some truly stupid people in this world. How does one get the idea that heating a lavalamp on the stove is a good thing?
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Actually, it is a bit of a freak that the shard of glass went right into his heart. I wouldn't have expected it to explode that forcefully. Of course, the contents would have been under pressure. But I've seen that a lot of people just don't think in those kinds of terms.
Still, it reminds me of the time my husband started cooking spaghetti on the stove with our glass casserole dish. We had only been married about a month, and had recieved both a glass pan and a glass casserole dish as gifts. He'd seen me use our glass pan, and had seen the dish in the oven. He just figured the dish would work on the stove too.
I come in. "What are you doing!?"
"Cooking the spaghetti."
"That's a casserole dish. It shouldn't touch a direct heat source, it will shatter."
The dish obeys me. Spaghetti and glass explode all over the stove.
"It wouldn't have done it if you hadn't have said anything," husband grumbles.
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I promise you -- Every. Single. One. Of. You. have done something at least as stupid as this. Did he have phenomenal bad luck -- yes. Did he display unusual stupidity -- no.
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Yeah, I'm with porter--I've done stuff so stupid and ill thought out that this guy's mistake looks positively...well...not brilliant, but not stupid either.
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adam -- The reason his stupid action has been broadcast to a wider audiance is because of his horrible luck to die from it. Having bad luck doesn't make the action any dumber.
quote:I promise you -- Every. Single. One. Of. You. have done something at least as stupid as this. Did he have phenomenal bad luck -- yes. Did he display unusual stupidity -- no.
When I was three years old I sat a hot steam iron down on my left hand. Hurt like a, well, you know. That's not the stupid part. The stupid part is that I then wanted to do the same thing to my right hand so that they would match.
Oh, and then there was the time that I was at my grandma's house and wanted to be helpful and do the dishes - this was maybe a year or so after I did the thing with the iron. So, I finished washing all the dishes and saw a tin can, opened by hand and with the top still attached and decided that it needed washing, as well. Cut the side of my hand just as my parents were driving into the driveway to come pick me up. They heard the scream and came in to find me dripping blood into the dishwater.
So, yeah, we all do stupid things. Some of us do them more frequently than others. Posts: 2454 | Registered: Jan 2003
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The only stupid things I can think of doing happen to involve relationships...Aside from the time I dropped a jar of Apple sauce and ran through the puddle of sauce 10 minutes later. I still have the scar from the piece of glass that lodged in my foot. But I have an excuse. I was 5 at the time.
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We heard this story on the radio this morning on the way in, and I also thought -- "wow, how freaky. I mean, what are the odds that a shard of glass would go exactly to his heart and kill him?"
But my son pointed out there are probably just as many freak accidents where people SHOULD have been killed but somehow were NOT, that we never hear about.
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If any of you have ever had a lava lamp, you'd know how long it takes for the little light bulb to heat up the goo enough for it to start looking funky-cool. And if he had a hot date on their way over or something, he'd have to find a quick way to heat it, no? At least he didn't stick it in the microwave.
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quote:Quinn apparently stumbled into his bedroom, where he died Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
Hmm...I have a piece of glass embedded in my chest. Think I'll go lay down. Then again, he did live in a trailer so it was probably the same room.
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With a chunk of glass in his heart, it was more of a " *gasp groan whimper cough gush stagger stagger die* " action and not any coordinated plan.
As for stupid - it's possible he was holding the lamp and forgot the stove was hot when he put it down.
Not unlike the woman who lit a cigarette on her way out of the trailer when her landlord warned her the gas line was being repaired. A bad habit, to be sure.
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Oh, have I got a stupid story (and I don't even have to own up to it).
One time I smelled gas in my apartment, so I went downstairs to the pizzaria where the landlord worked to see if we could check the upstairs apartment. The landlord wasn't there, but the kid behind the counter says he'll come up with me.
My upstairs neighbor wasn't home, she was in the hospital, which was common. On the outside of her door was a big sign: "Warning, Oxygen in use, no smoking, sparks, or open flame!"
Well, this kid doesn't have a key to the apartment, so we're standing in the hallway, smelling gas, and he pulls out a lighter and lights it, apparently to see if it would create a flame, thereby proving that the gas smell was a gas smell.
It was one of those things where I saw him doing it, but my brain took about a half second to realize what he was doing. You can bet I called him names, but I don't remember what. Luckily, the concetration was below the L.E.L (that's lower explosive limit)
The sad thing is that the smell was coming from the pilot light of her water heater, which had gone out. She shouldn't have been using Oxygen in an apartment with a water heater with a standing pilot.
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I just checked my son's lava lamp, the bottle part has a cap on it, just like the cap on a beer bottle, so the thing can be filled. I'd say that it would be pretty safe to do (whatever he was trying to do) with the bottle cap off.
This sounds like the kind of thing we used to do in the lab all the time.
Also: My friends used to put beer cans in a campfire. Apparently they launched like rockets. I was never there when they did it though.
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I notice a distinct lack of concern over the untimely demise of a perfectly good lavalamp. I mean, c'mon, we come with warnings all over us. We aren't meant to be abused. We are not toys people!
I'm sorry this man died, but, really, where's the concern for the lava?
Note: This might've been one of those angry lavalamps. It happens. You wouldn't think, but when you are just left gathering dust and don't get to partake of the ooze for years and years...well...who wouldn't turn a little homicidal under those circumstances.
quote:"It wouldn't have done it if you hadn't have said anything," husband grumbles.
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quote:I promise you -- Every. Single. One. Of. You. have done something at least as stupid as this. Did he have phenomenal bad luck -- yes. Did he display unusual stupidity -- no.
very true. I have done some rather stupid things in my life that could have gotten me killed, particularly when I was in my early teens. Fortunately, luck, God, or both were on my side. Posts: 1901 | Registered: May 2004
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Bernard once tried to heat up spaghetti sauce in a glass bowl and his rice cooker. He manged to get it three feet in the air before the bottom gave out. To this day, his room still smells like marinara.
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quote:If any of you have ever had a lava lamp, you'd know how long it takes for the little light bulb to heat up the goo enough for it to start looking funky-cool. And if he had a hot date on their way over or something, he'd have to find a quick way to heat it, no?
Nothing like a little Lava lamp-watching to liven up a dull evening.
*snickers*
No, I really do feel sorry for the guy. Well, if he had some freak fascination for the lamps, then maybe on the bright side: he died happy?
*shrug* I tried to think positive.
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Wow, I missed this thread when I was on my little sabbatical. And the original link is broken. Oh, here is a link.Posts: 666 | Registered: Dec 2003
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