I nominate this guy.
Weird.
For those who hate to follow links, here is the first two paragraphs:
I’m sure he was heating it to melt the wax. Kinda like the light does, but faster.
I can’t wait to hear this one on the news tonight. This could only happen in Kent. Or maybe Renton. Then again, he could have been near where both towns meet up.
Except for that whole “being a moron” thing, which is sometimes caused by drugs or alcohol. OTOH, sometimes it isn’t.
I expect we’ll be seeing this story featured in the Weekly World News under the headline “First Death from Lava in Pacific Northwest!” with a picture of Mount St. Helens in the background. :rolleyes:
Sometimes I wonder if people who live in trailers are really aliens in disguise. This fellow certainly fit the bill.
I’ve used an alternate heat source to melt the wax in a lava lamp before.
It had been moved before it cooled, and the coiled heat conductor that is supposed to be at the bottom of the bottle was out of place, so the heat from the bulb was insufficient to get things going. That may have been what buddy was attempting to do.
Of course, I was familiar with the concept of a “bomb,” so I was a little bit more careful than the late Mr. Quinn about the amount of heat I applied, and consequently survived long enough to eventually realize that Lava Lamps are really, really tacky.
Don’t lava lamps contain a lot of plastic parts? You’d think the smell of burning plastic would be a pretty obvious warning sign.
He probably took the bottle off of the lamp-base. It just rests there, it’s not afffixed.
Here’s a picture of a dirty hippy holding a lava lamp bottle, off the base.
The plastic cap is just covering a regular bottle-cap, and isn’t actually attached to the bottle, either.
You see the potential for disaster here, don’t you?