Another Darwin Award Winner
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:51 pm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6621680/
Exploding lava lamp kills Washington man
Shard of glass pierces victim’s heart after lamp heated on stove MSNBC News Services
Updated: 4:03 p.m. ET Nov. 30, 2004KENT, Wash. - A 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.
Philip Quinn, 24, was found dead in his trailer home Sunday night by his parents.
“Why on earth he was heating a lava lamp on the stove, we don’t know,” Kent Police spokesman Paul Petersen said Monday.
A lava lamp features blobs of wax in liquid that rise and fall in a container when heated by a bulb at the base of the lamp.
After the lamp exploded, Quinn apparently stumbled into his bedroom, where he died Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
Police found no evidence of drug or alcohol use.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
Exploding lava lamp kills Washington man
Shard of glass pierces victim’s heart after lamp heated on stove MSNBC News Services
Updated: 4:03 p.m. ET Nov. 30, 2004KENT, Wash. - A 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.
Philip Quinn, 24, was found dead in his trailer home Sunday night by his parents.
“Why on earth he was heating a lava lamp on the stove, we don’t know,” Kent Police spokesman Paul Petersen said Monday.
A lava lamp features blobs of wax in liquid that rise and fall in a container when heated by a bulb at the base of the lamp.
After the lamp exploded, Quinn apparently stumbled into his bedroom, where he died Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
Police found no evidence of drug or alcohol use.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
