Ray Shahan writes

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From: Shahan, Ray [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:04 AM
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Subject: OT: A local Darwin Award candidate


On last night's newscast, there was a story about a local (Fox Valley,
WI
area) couple that went on vacation.  In the event their house was robbed
while away on vacation, the couple wanted to ensure that their guns (and
AMMO) were not stolen, so the couple put the guns and AMMO in the OVEN.
Alas, when the couple returned from vacation, the house was quite cold
(they'd also turned their house heater way down), so the turned on the
gas
oven to help heat the house quicker...and yup, you guessed it, forgot
they
had put the guns and AMMO in the oven!!  Yehaaw!  Blew the _ell out of
the
oven and kitchen (the police didn't say what kind of AMMO), however the
couple was alive because they had left the kitchen for another room just
prior to the AMMO exploding.

Ha...that'd be to be a top contender for the Darwin Awards except that
you
actually have to die to be in the running.
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Now why does at first glance does this scream out "URBAN LEGEND".  Come
on, who walks into their cold house, goes to the kitchen, and tries to
heat the house with the oven.  For this to be even a little effective,
you have to have the oven door OPEN.  Opening the door would sort of
expose the guns and ammo inside.

Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc. 

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