Ray, I stand corrected.  You're right, honorary Darwin awards all around
in that house.

In a related story at the same web site, New York traffic authorities
have replaced the last Walk/Don't Walk sign with the international
symbols for same.  This will allow international travellers to
understand the message.  Now this is the urban legend.  New York caring
about jaywalking, especially in Manhattan :)

Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shahan, Ray [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:05 AM
To: Michael Berkowitz; Shahan, Ray; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: OT: A local Darwin Award candidate


Michael,

        I went out to the local ABC website (WBAY.COM), and got the
actual
story (turns out the wife lit the started the strove for dinner, and the
couple hid behind the fridge to escape the bullets, but I recall the
newscaster last night saying they were in the other room...also, the
wife
started the stove for heat).

A husband and wife hid behind a refrigerator Tuesday night to escape
bullets
exploding in their oven.
Firefighters and police were called about the oven fire on Island Court
in
Howard around 7 p.m.
The man told Action 2 News he hid three pistols and ammunition in the
oven
before they left for vacation, thinking a burglar would never look in
the
stove. They returned from vacation Tuesday and the woman started dinner.
Increasing the chances of a tragedy, the man admits he tried to
extinguish
the smoking-hot cartridges with a fire extinguisher. The extinguisher
was
out of date, so it didn't work. So the couple went behind the
refrigerator
and called 911.
No one was hurt, and the man gave Action 2 News a tour of his kitchen
and
showed us the charred pistols and casings.

Of course, you can go to the web site yourself:

http://wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=1650057&nav=51s7KtU1



Ray Shahan

When you were born, you were crying 
and everyone around you was smiling. 
Live your life so at the end, 
you're the one who is smiling and everyone 
around you is crying.                Unknown




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Berkowitz [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:52 AM
> To:   Shahan, Ray; [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      RE:      OT: A local Darwin Award candidate
> 
> Ray Shahan writes
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shahan, Ray [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:04 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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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