A 24-year-old man who placed a lava lamp on a hot stovetop was killed when it exploded and sent a shard of glass into his heart, police said. "Why on earth he was heating a lava lamp on the stove, we don't know," Kent Police spokesman Paul Petersen said Monday.
Phillip Quinn's parents found his body in his Kent trailer home at about 8 p.m. Sunday. They went to check on him after his girlfriend reported that she couldn't get in touch with him.
The King County Medical Examiner's office estimated the time of his death at 2 p.m. Sunday. After the lamp exploded, Quinn apparently stumbled into his bedroom, where he died, Petersen said.
Police found no evidence of drug or alcohol use. [... except the lava lamp. ]
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Police found no evidence of drug or alcohol use.
In Kent?! Wow, that is news!
(Normally, Kent is one-stop-shopping for all your dead-body-found-in-a-trunk needs.)
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Add you to what? I don't even know you.
Darwin awards nominee?
lava lamps keep having a sedatively effect on me, too
Why on earth he was heating a lava lamp on the stove, we don't know," Kent Police spokesman Paul Petersen said Monday.
Because those things take a helluva long time to
heartheat up, that's why.|Ren|
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Apparently, this sort of thing is common in Washington.
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I'm hoping this makes it to a Mythbusters episode.
"We put five identical pothead bachelors in trailer homes and gave them lava lamps."
Phillip Quinn's parents found his body in his Kent trailer home at about 8 p.m. Sunday.
why am i not at all surprised that he lived in a trailer?
Something like that deserves to be posted in mock_the_stupid. Sheer (lack of) brilliance.
Wow, that's pretty unlucky for it to explode and actually puncture his heart.