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Gun in Oven Shoots Woman
Associated Press ^ | 08/13/03 | Staff Writer

Posted on 08/13/2003 1:33:33 PM PDT by bedolido

A 22-year-old woman was wounded when a handgun that had been hidden inside an oven discharged when she opened the door, police said.

Colsaun Bailey, the 17-year-old alleged owner of the gun, was arrested, though police said they did not believe he fired the weapon, The Journal News reported Wednesday.

"We are operating on the assumption that nobody picked up the gun and fired it," police Capt. John McCoy told the newspaper.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; gun; oven; shoots; woman
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To: bedolido
Colsaun, for future reference, heat and gunpowder don't mix, mmkay?
21 posted on 08/13/2003 1:40:20 PM PDT by RichInOC (WHAT HAPPEN?)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Talk about crappy fire discipline!
22 posted on 08/13/2003 1:40:40 PM PDT by Clive
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To: TheBigB
Could there be a "second oven" theory far behind??

LMAO!!!

23 posted on 08/13/2003 1:43:53 PM PDT by bedolido (None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
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To: bedolido
Colsaun Bailey, the 17-year-old alleged owner of the gun,...

These Irish are so unpredictable.

24 posted on 08/13/2003 1:43:54 PM PDT by JesseHousman
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To: bedolido
Its what they call "cooking off" a round...
26 posted on 08/13/2003 1:44:29 PM PDT by 2oakes (US citizen, ex-brit, and VERY glad of it)
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To: bedolido
I have heard of rounds "cooking off"...
27 posted on 08/13/2003 1:45:21 PM PDT by dogbrain ("Life is hard son. It's harder if you're stupid.")
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To: bedolido
I have heard of rounds cooking off but this is ridiculous.
28 posted on 08/13/2003 1:45:25 PM PDT by Flint
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To: bedolido
Yep...Had to get rid of my guns...Couldn't control em'...They'd shoot everything in sight...
30 posted on 08/13/2003 1:47:21 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: nevergore
When ovens are outlawed only ovens will have guns....

ROFL

Gum

31 posted on 08/13/2003 1:50:18 PM PDT by ChewedGum ( http://king-of-fools.blogspot.com)
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To: JesseHousman
Colsaun??? Colsaun???

Sounds like a good name for a hurricane! Quick...someone call Sheila Jackson!

32 posted on 08/13/2003 1:52:02 PM PDT by albee
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To: 2oakes; dogbrain; Flint
That's pretty eerie ...
33 posted on 08/13/2003 1:52:05 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: bedolido
"If the oven don't fit, you must acquit!"

FMCDH

34 posted on 08/13/2003 1:53:01 PM PDT by nothingnew (I've changed my tagline and will tell no one what it is until I'm on the Jay Leno show!)
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To: bedolido
Guns kill people, they just need a lot of help from complete idiots.
35 posted on 08/13/2003 1:53:24 PM PDT by Heatseeker
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To: bedolido
Perhaps she was trying to bake in in a cake, in the old "Files for Felons" tradition. Set the temp a bit too high...
36 posted on 08/13/2003 1:57:41 PM PDT by Charles Martel
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To: JennysCool; 2oakes; Flint
"That's pretty erie..."

actually, we're the same person,

only different people.

37 posted on 08/13/2003 2:00:27 PM PDT by dogbrain ("Life is hard son. It's harder if you're stupid.")
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To: bedolido
One bullet hit her in the forearm, hip and thigh, authorities said.

A likely story. Sounds like a second shooter to me. Was it a double oven? Call Arlen Specter!

38 posted on 08/13/2003 2:02:03 PM PDT by blau993 (Labs for love; .357 for Security.)
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To: bedolido
Must have been hot loads.
39 posted on 08/13/2003 2:02:17 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: bedolido
I've heard of guns jumping out of the box and killing people but never heard of one jumping out of the oven!..
40 posted on 08/13/2003 2:02:42 PM PDT by arly
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