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Death By Lava Lamp

// December 6th, 2004 // Funnies // 1,805 views

“According to Reuters, a man from Washington state who placed a lava lamp on a hot stovetop was killed when it exploded and sent a shard of glass into his heart.

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.

The 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.”

Yet another sterling example that the 60′s were bad for you. Tragic as this might be, two things stand out, lava lamp and trailer home. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know this is the stuff Jerry Springer shows are made of.

Then again, he stands in line for a Darwin award. The Darwin Awards honor those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. Of necessity, this honor is generally bestowed posthumously.