Mythbusters tested the "bullet on a campfire" myth, and found the bullet exited the fire with a pretty low velocity: the reason being, there was nothing to take the recoil when the powder lit. They also found a bullet in a hot oven wouldn't even make it through the glass door.

More likely the woman just got shot (maybe by herself?) and wanted to hide the fact.

http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2007/08/episode_85_red_rag_to_a_bull_h.html

Can't it be that the Lizard Army is mellowing out and wants to raise the overall IQ of humanity?

Perhaps they're just practicing for operations against a moose-hunting, wolf-hating, Darwin-disliking, in-duh-vidual from slightly to the north of that location?

Paris 'cause she's got more brains than both in-duh-viduals... combined.

Wow - what a great piece of near Darwinism

If she hadn't survived would the stove have been given the death penalty?

Sorry!

... welcome our new iron clad, ammo pumping overlords.

May death come swiftly to their enemies!

I think if it was a rise of the machines it would of killed her, so i'd go with Darwin award where she got lucky as opposed to most Darwin winners that are truely unlucky and stupid of course.

A1: you keep looking until you find it?

A2: you look vaguely down, don't see it, continue life?

Choices, choices.

The round is the bullet, metal casing, propellant and 'cap', so the round went off and the bullet hit her.

< /pedant>

Still - reminds me of the Darwin award story of someone using a .22 round as a fuse in their vehicle, and shooting themselves in the knee.

Mines the one with the round bullet hole in it.

ttfn

...the stove get upset at being put in irons??

... If she was frying popcorn.

Does this mean she's done this sort of thing before?

Now I need to get a clean "wipe coffee off the screen" cloth.

On a serious note, this sort of thing is why I reckon the US needs to re-evaluate it's gun-toting amendment. It's pretty clear that it needs to be changed to something like "you have the right to bear arms once you have demonstrated a full understanding of how to use and look after weaponry" (I'm not getting into the pro/anti thing, it's not relevant here)

Some samples of lessons:

Do not look down the barrel to find out if a round is in it, and do not try to work it loose with the trigger.

Do not point a weapon at someone unless you are prepared to kill them

Do not play "duck season" "wabbit season"

Those nice little metal things that go on the inside go bang if you burn or heat them

Do not play Russian Roulette with automatics

On the other hand, we'd be sadly deprived of some fantastic Darwin Awards nominations...

"just finished stoking her cast-iron stove to heat her home when something inside it exploded"

Replace stoking with stroking and you can see how my mind wondered... after that, everything was an innuendo... my bad.

Right-o, just like Mythbusters "proved" that rounds fired up in the air couldn't hurt you. I notice *they* were standing behind heavy plastic shields.

I'd think if the cartridge was resting suitably against the back wall of the stove, it would find plenty enough to recoil against, plus it looks like the stove was still open and she was still pretty close having just put the newspaper in.

We just had a kid killed when he was trying to hammer a .30-06 rifle round into a chair. The link's expired from the local paper, though.

Clearly, the cast iron stove is the "cranky old-timer" of the machine uprising:

"...You goddam young Renaults today don't know nothin' about nothin'! Ya don't get all fancy-schmantzy with yer throttle -- ya just shoot the sonsabitches... Goddam young punks...! *muttermumble*"

That's not the most frightening thing to ever come out of an oven though, my wife's cooking is lethal! Shallow wound to the calf!? Try lasagne to the oesophagus! Lightweight Americans, I don't know...

WTF is this icon supposed to be? Reminds me of Koolaid, ET and Morse Code.

"Do not play Russian Roulette with automatics"

That is a nice quote I will start to use, with your permission. Got a nice ring to it, maybe as a quit message or something. Right up there with "And one more thing: It's been emotional."

Imagine getting t-bagged by a AGA?

That's a world of pain and humilation.

Mines the bulletproof one with the Battlefield 2 DVD in.

The Olympic Peninsula in Warshington State is abt 1380 km from Juneau, Alaska, where Ms. Palin holds sway in her Commie-red wardrobe.

But in spite of the distance, the comparison is apt. Both represent the back ass end of nowhere, full of survivalists and assorted other self-designated free spirits. In the continental US, however, this kind of anti-establishment life view is more prevalent in Montana, Idaho, and (vide "State of Jefferson") southern Oregon & northern California than on the Olympic Peninsula.

Lexicographic/semantic observation: the old Latinism "vide" for "see" is succumbing to "Google".

Chocolate moose is my favourite.

> full of survivalists and assorted other self-designated free spirits

Really. *Proper* free spirits should be assigned by Central Committee. Besides, she has a GUN!!1

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2008/10/how-did-newswee.html#comment-133980175

“Good catch. That is a 50 caliber automatic street-sweeper cop-killer assault weapon. Not only could she have blown her foot off, she could've killed every human within a 1000 yard radius. Which she would've probably enjoyed, since she loves to kill things. She is terrifying, and I have nightmares about her every night.

Hold me.”