Fun With Guns: Flambé Style Edition
Okay, Florida, you win.
Robin Garlock, who is 44 years old, hid his revolver in the broiler when his kids came to visit him.
He neglected to tell his girlfriend.
She pre-heated the oven for something she planned to cook later that evening.
She heard a gunshot. Then more gunshots. She ran for cover and called Garlock, who faced a grim situation.
“It’s too hot,” Warren Police Detective Wayne Mackey told the Vindicator. “The gun literally spun around because it’s going off.”
He was burned as he tried to retrieve the gun. Handy kitchen hint: Use spot holder when trying to catch your revolver in the oven. Those suckers run!
Thanks to Ron for the heads up.
How is the poor innocent stove doing? Really, could you get any dumber? I read the article not the first time and innocent appliance has been shot either. The heat must make people dumb, sorry this does not mean you!
1OMFG! Sounded like Magnum Popcorn, eh?
2The idjit could have at least put it in the icebox or microwave.
(PS: the girlfriend is nearly as dumb as Garlock, you should never fire up an appliance without checking to see if there is something in there.)
Earlier a patron posted about how duct tape couldn’t fix stoopid, just muffle the sound some. How much duct tape would it take to contain the stoopid in this couple and just not let it out into the universe?
3There really does seem to be something mentally deficient about people who insist on making guns an intimate part of their daily lives.
I’m not talking about military, police, security guards or whatever. That’s the job. Serious gun collectors and hobbyists don’t seem to have this kind of problem either.
Where you see all the stories like this it involves someone who has guns as some sort of political statement or where they have guns solely to protect against some threat that doesn’t really exist. Or they think their social standing is improved because they own a gun.
We really need to stop ceding political power to these maroons.
4Did he learn his lesson? Or if there’s a next time will he try hiding his gun in the freezer, probably next to the ice cream, so the kids won’t find it.
Stay tuned…
5This could be a new ad for that insurance company that says, “We know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two.”
Let’s hope he doesn’t put it in the microwave.
6This. This. This is exactly why people should be licensed before they can own a gun. Obviously he should not be allowed near anything more powerful than a pea shooter.
7Wow! This reminds of the time when Mom used to hide her handbag in the oven. This was natural according to her inasmuch as she was the only one who ever used the oven. When Dad found out about it, he wasn’t at all thrilled. So she started hiding in in the cabinet of her console style sewing machine from Sears Roebuck. Yup. She was the only one who used the sewing machine. Dad never knew her next hiding place. All he cared was that her handbag wasn’t in the oven. God! Wasn’t life simple then!
8Weeding ou the gene pool one bullet at a time.
9Micr, To fix the usual Trumpanzee level of stoopid it takes at least two rolls of the top quality duct tape stuff AND a whole industrial-sized tube of superglue or 5200 marine sealant.
10If only there were hippo-sized webspinning spiders, we could drop them in a TEV with the Trumpanzee and wait a bit. Voila, neatly wrapped dumbazz’zee (spiders would evolve to not even bother using their venom, as the ‘zee’s are already neuro-catatonic).
So much for securing your firearm in a locked safe or cabinet.
11Thank God none of his kids was in the line of fire. There’s stoopid and then there’s terminally brain dead. This guy should not have guns or kids.
BTW, the technical term for this kind of ammo firing is the specifically perfect term here of: “cooking off”. (heheh)
The term is also used for artillery, missiles, chemicals, etc., and if you work with fiber glass resins you’ve seen it happen if you get the mix wrong or it’s hot out.
So if y’all are going to put your firearms in the oven, sloooow cook it under 220degF, like fajitas and prime rib —
“Cooking off (or thermally induced firing) is ammunition exploding prematurely due to heat in the surrounding environment.
A fast cook-off is a cook-off caused by fire. A slow cook-off is caused by a sustained thermal event less intense than fire.
A cooked-off round may cause a sympathetic detonation of adjacent rounds. …
Nitrocellulose, the primary component of modern smokeless powder, has a relatively low autoignition temperature of around 160–170 °C (320–338 °F).[1] ”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_off
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12Micr, I am not quite ready to categorize the girlfriend as stupid, unless of course she turned on the broiler without leaving the oven door open a crack. Then, yeah.
I guess I am Old School, in home ec class we were taught to always leave the oven door open a wee bit when broiling.
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