Antoine Boutte used to keep a loaded gun at the bottom of his gas stove. That is, until he forgot it was there early on Saturday and he and another man decided to cook some food, Fulton County police said
Boutte fired up the stove at his College Park home at around 3:30 a.m. Saturday -- heating up the .40 caliber Smith & Wesson along with it, a police report said. While the food was cooking, the weapon’s magazine started to melt in the gun well, the police report said.
This caused the spring – and bullets – to come out of the magazine. The bullets started going off like popcorn. Boutte’s friend, Christopher Henderson, opened the stove “to see what was happening,” the police report said.
That’s when part of a bullet casing flew out of the stove, hitting Henderson in the stomach, police said. Boutte and another friend, Lisa Wells, took Henderson to Southern Regional Hospital. He was treated for his injuries, which police said were non life-threatening.
5 comments:
Hey wasn't the "loaded-gun-kept-in-the-oven-exploding-while-heated-Myth" not Busted by the MythththththBusters...?
- No sir you're not dead- We Mythbusters have prooved that what you experienced just is not possible.
<span>Circumstances here are quite different than the ones from the myth tested....</span>
First of all, in the myth, it was the bullet that was propelled, which proved almost impossible, but here, it is a part of the casing that did the damage. http://forensicfact.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/machine-gun-bullet.gif
And here http://mythbustersresults.com/episode85 we read "<span>Without a gun barrel to contain and direct the propellant gases, the bullets did not develop enough speed to pierce the glass or steel portions of the oven. The shell casings actually caused more damage than the bullets."</span>
Also, in the myth, the bullet was supposed to have gone through the front of the oven, and here, the wounded idiot opened the stove, quote, <span>“to see what was happening”.</span>
Such an absurd incident. How odd that mythbusters had already tested the effects of heating a loaded gun in the oven. Do a lot of people store guns there?
Sure! Best compact out of the way place to keep ammo, cannisters of camping-gas and your spare cigarette lighters if you smoke!
LOL :)
I shall remember that next time I have some fireworks I can't find a spot for...
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