From: "Michael Berkowitz" <[log in to unmask]>
> 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.

According to this, she turned on the oven to cook, but otherwise it's a true
story:
http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=1650057&nav=51s7KtU1


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out of date, so it didn't work.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.

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