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Hubby trying to cook ...

2011 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

It may be worth an honorary mention.

On Oct. 12, 2011, the small town of Leutenbach near Stuttgart, Germany (Pop. 10.949) got rudely taken out of its sedate peace and quiet by an explosion in a private home.

As the police investigators reported, a local man wanted to heat up a deep freeze pizza. Radio had reported, that his wife was out on a girls' evening with her friends, leaving Hubby home alone to fend for and to feed himself.

However, Mr. Cooks-once-a-year did not check the other contents of the oven below the tray. It appears that his wife, with inscrutable female logic had stored her oven cleaning spay (one can and a spare) in the oven. Well, it's for cleaning the oven after all, so where else would a sensible person put it bewteen use, anyway.

Of course, no housekeeper would ever dream to disregard the big red print on the label: Do not expose to direct sunlight (check), do nor expose to open flames (check), do not heat above 125°F (umm ...).

Surpisingly, the cans went pop way before the pizza was done, went through the glass front of the oven and left the semi frozen pizza and bits of thermo safety glass all over the kitchen.

Had hubby been in the kitchen at that particular moment, the lady's current partner for reproduction might have been taken out of the gene pool, leaving her in need go look for a replacement. As it is, nobody was physically harmed. So, no culling of the gene pool here, but definitely a decent try ...

There are no reports what kind of discussion ensued after that evening's martial re-union. We can only guess that either party may have felt hard put on ... After all, what sensible person would hide spray cans in an oven. Where else would a sensible person store them, and one obviously can't leave men home alone in a proper kitchen even for ten minutes, and would one please open one's eyes and take a good look before (ab)using unfamiliar implements ...

Here's the link to the full report, in German, though: http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.blaulicht-12-oktober-bei-riskantem-manoever-schwer-verletzt-page5.78355ecb-bad9-4f57-b8c5-c6273c5db25f.html

Submitted on 10/28/2011

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: Stuttgarter Zeitung, 11. Oct. 2011

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>> Moderator Scores <<

Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: No Self-Selection
Thanks, but if the wife put the cleaning spray in the oven and the husband wasn't aware of it then he's most definitely not to blame for the resulting accident.


Candi said:
Definitely Toss: No Self-Selection
What Bruce said.


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