Death by Lava Lamp

[Zomby Woof]

So many fucking ways to die. Poor bastard was probably Darwinized for his mishap.

From 2004:

http://www.komonews.com/news/archive/4139111.html

Philip, in a fatal act of experimentation, had placed a lava lamp on the kitchen stove. When used properly and heated only by a small lightbulb, 40 watts in most cases, a lava lamp is essentially harmless: a mix of wax or oil and water sealed in a glass bottle with a small air space at the top of the bottle to allow for the liquid to expand under heat.

"It wasn't bubbling fast enough for him," his mom guesses. "Because when we walked in the stove was on at the lowest setting."

Even at the lowest setting the amount of heat was too much. As Philip watched the lava lamp on his stove the pressure began to build too much and too fast until it essentially exploded like a grenade, showering him with glass and sending a large shard deep into his chest.

He was found just a few feet away from the stove. He bled to death and never had a chance to call for help. The King County Medical Examiner has ruled the death accidental.

[Heidi]

1. Wow. I hope not to leave such a lasting legacy to my own stupidity.

:yoiks:

[TreasonousBastard]

2. You gotta see "1000 Ways to Die"...

Tuesday nights on Spike.

Lawyer tries to impress women by bouncing off plate glass window in his 20th story office-- it sorta worked until one day the window broke.

Guy who can't cook impressed date by serving live snails in a salad-- but they had a nasty parasite that eats your brain.

And more, much more, to impress the Darwinizers.

[Dogtown]

3. Mythbusters did an episode on this:

"Confirmed"

[hobbit709]

4. We don't have sabertooths anymore to weed out the slow and stupid.

So we have to invent ways to do the same.

"Way back in prehistory there were two kinds of people. The ones who said 'My, look at that magnificent specimen of sabertooth tiger, and the ones who panicked and ran. You know which ones we're descended from"-Rincewind.

[HopeHoops]

5. Damn. I hope he was adequately stoned at the time.