Posted on 11/30/2004 4:57:24 AM PST by scooter2
KENT - "Philip has been a kid who tinkers with things ever since he was little," a grieving Claudia Quinn told KOMO 4 News Monday night after her son's bizarre and tragic death.
Sunday, 24-year-old Philip Quinn was tinkering with a lava lamp at his home in Kent. His girlfriend and his parents became worried when they couldn't find him and couldn't get him to answer his phone.
Claudia and Bill Quinn drove from their home in Auburn to check on their youngest son. They thought maybe he'd just overslept. They were devastated by what they found.
"I looked around the corner and saw his body slumped there in the corner and just couldn't believe what I saw," said Quinn's father.
"There was glass from the kitchen clear to the living room," his mom told us. "They said it appeared that a piece of glass punctured his heart."
Philip, in a fatal act of experimentation, had placed a lava lamp on the kitchen stove. When used properly and heated only by a small lightbulb, 40 watts in most cases, a lava lamp is essentially harmless: a mix of wax or oil and water sealed in a glass bottle with a small air space at the top of the bottle to allow for the liquid to expand under heat.
"It wasn't bubbling fast enough for him," his mom guesses. "Because when we walked in the stove was on at the lowest setting."
Even at the lowest setting the amount of heat was too much. As Philip watched the lava lamp on his stove the pressure began to build too much and too fast until it essentially exploded like a grenade, showering him with glass and sending a large shard deep into his chest.
He was found just a few feet away from the stove. He bled to death and never had a chance to call for help. The King County Medical Examiner has ruled the death accidental.
Police found no evidence of drug or alcohol use.
Philip Quinn leaves behind a 15-month old daughter. He was also the youngest of three brothers. Funeral services are planned for this Saturday.
***SNORK***
lmao!
"Philip had a lava lamp,
He placed it on the stove.
Then everywhere the lava went
And Philip shoulda dove."
CLASSIC!! Great post! Sick, but great!
I certainly hope not. It would be a shame if all lava lamps would need to state: NOT for use on cook stove.
Pitcher John Smoltz of the Atlanta Braves once missed several starts (before he became a relief pitcher) because he tried to "touch up" his shirt with an iron while wearing it. True -- burned himself too badly to pitch.
Baseball players have the most bizarre accidents -- like the one (Wade Boggs?) who injured himself so badly putting on cowboy boots that he had to go on the injured reserve list. Believe he tripped and knocked himself out on a the edge of a tabletop. Or (not so bizarre) the Mets pitcher who cut off a finger with a power weed trimmer. Or the OTHER Atlanta Braves pitcher in the 1970s who, when out to dinner with some teammates, wanted to prove he could still dunk a basketball. So he jumped up with his hand extended, caught his college ring on the awning, and ripped his ring finger off.
Betcha they ban lava lamps from Major League clubhouses after this.
Chinese imports at Wal-Mart, of course.
Lava lamps are making a comeback.
I understand the Mount St. Helens model is a big seller this season.
What about those who can't read?
No, there should be a pressure relief valve.
That and the "Three Rivers Gorge" water slide.
"When will the insanity stop? We've got to ban these lava lamps now!"
First we have to require big labels pasted on the side saying
" Warning! - Placing this lamp on a hot stove and cooking it may result in injury or death to user and/or any household pets.
¡Advertencia! - la colocación de esta lámpara en una estufa caliente y cocinarla pueden dar lugar a lesión o a muerte al usuario y/o a cualquier animal doméstico de la casa."
Ah yes, the second rule of laser safety.
I think the cat did it to itself. The dangling shaking cord was too much to resist. It probably has well satisfied it's curiosity of that particular item now.
I think I did hear them say "Turn off the fan Turn off the fan"
He's a real iron man.
Or the OTHER Atlanta Braves pitcher in the 1970s who, when out to dinner with some teammates, wanted to prove he could still dunk a basketball. So he jumped up with his hand extended, caught his college ring on the awning, and ripped his ring finger off.
Cecil Upshaw, as I recall.
I remember Carlos May of the White Sox, who blew off his thumb while on NG duty, but still came back to be a good hitter. (He had a teammate, Walt Williams, who had no neck.)
The king of the defingered players was the great pitcher Mordecai "Three-Finger" Brown.
On the other hand (so to speak), there is the overfingered reliever Antonio Alfonseca, who has six on each hand.
Ground casualty multiple fragmentation wounds hostile.
I was thinking that too. Darwin Award.
RE: "Do not use iron while wearing garment"
My husband tells me that he saw an article stating that the manufacturers of Umbrella-type strollers were ordered to put a label on the stroller to warn parents not to fold the stroller while the baby is in it!! Hello, should people be allowed to have children if they are likely to do a thing like that?
DUUUUDDDEEEE! Only in Seattle!
This is a tragedy, pure and simple. Those of you who are joking about it should grow up.
hahahashahahahahaha
Oh no.
You've landed in a mirror universe!
[aka Bizarro World]
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