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  • Some people are just to stupid to be allowed to vote.

    The bad news is this woman is old enough to vote but on the upside she's probably to dumb to find the polling station.

    BISCUITS WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER

    Linda Burnett, 23, a resident of San Diego , was visiting her in-laws,
    and while there she went to a nearby supermarket to pick up some
    groceries. Several people noticed her sitting in her car with the
    windows rolled up and with her eyes closed, with both hands behind the
    back of her head.

    One customer who had been at the store for a while became concerned
    and walked over to the car. He noticed that Linda's eyes were now
    open, and she looked very strange. He asked her if she was okay, and
    Linda replied that she'd been shot in the back of the head, and had
    been holding her brains in for over an hour.

    The man called the paramedics, who broke into the car because the
    doors were locked and Linda refused to remove her hands from her head.
    When they finally got in, they found that Linda had a wad of bread
    dough on the back of her head.

    A Pillsbury biscuit canister had exploded from the heat, making a
    loud noise that sounded like a gunshot, and the wad of dough hit her
    in the back of her head. When she reached back to find out what it
    was, she felt the dough and "thought it was her brains." She initially
    passed out, but quickly recovered and tried to hold her brains in for
    over an hour until someone noticed and came to her aid.
    BISCUITS WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER (the actual AP headline) Linda Burnett, 23, a resident of San Diego , was visiting her in-laws, and while there she went to a nearby supermarket to pick up some groceries. Several people noticed her sitting in…


    Supposedly this woman is a blond.
    Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

  • #2
    The whole thing is probably made up but what the heck.
    Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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    • #3
      I heard this story a few years back....and didn't Mythbuster's do an episode on it??

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      • #4
        Re: Some people are just to stupid to be allowed to vote.

        Originally posted by Oerdin
        Supposedly this woman is a blond.
        I find this comment offensive.
        One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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        • #5
          too stupid.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Zkribbler
            I heard this story a few years back....and didn't Mythbuster's do an episode on it??
            I don't know about mythbusters, but this is an old story.

            edit: I don't know, but wikipedia does:
            A woman was struck in the head with an exploding tin of biscuit dough, believing that she was in fact struck by a bullet.
            Plausible The dough can blow out of many types of biscuit cans at a car's internal temperature of 150 °F (60 °C) with enough force to potentially strike the driver of the car in the back of the head, and has a texture and consistency when thawed that can be mistaken for brain matter by the average person. However, no one can actually verify the incident actually occurred. This myth has inspired two spinoff myths: one in Myths Revisited and one in MythBusters Revisited.
            link
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            • #7
              This dumb old story has being going around and around SINCE BEFORE the internet. It has been reincarnated many times since e-mail came into use. It is one of the first debunkees on Snopes Urban Legends site.
              Gaius Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
              Japher: "crap, did I just post in this thread?"
              "Bloody hell, Lefty.....number one in my list of persons I have no intention of annoying, ever." Bugs ****ing Bunny
              From a 6th grader who readily adpated to internet culture: "Pay attention now, because your opinions suck"

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              • #8
                They say she was from San Diego. It makes it all so plausible.
                One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Zkribbler
                  I heard this story a few years back....and didn't Mythbuster's do an episode on it??
                  Yes.
                  "In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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                  • #10
                    Is this a poll? I can't find the banana option!
                    Monkey!!!

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Zkribbler
                      I heard this story a few years back....and didn't Mythbuster's do an episode on it??
                      Turns out it is fake.

                      A woman sitting in a car thinks she's been shot when a canister of biscuit dough explodes.
                      Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                      • #12
                        A woman sitting in a car thinks she's been shot when a canister of biscuit dough explodes.


                        Snopes traces it back as far as a cuationary tale (not a news report) in a newspaper in 1994. I had read a similar story more than a decade before that, back either in my law student or young lawyer days.
                        Gaius Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
                        Japher: "crap, did I just post in this thread?"
                        "Bloody hell, Lefty.....number one in my list of persons I have no intention of annoying, ever." Bugs ****ing Bunny
                        From a 6th grader who readily adpated to internet culture: "Pay attention now, because your opinions suck"

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Zkribbler
                          I heard this story a few years back....and didn't Mythbuster's do an episode on it??
                          I was right. The episode is entitled Biscuit Bullet [LINK]

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                          • #14
                            Re: Some people are just to stupid to be allowed to vote.

                            like, say, people who pass on urban legends without checking their veracity first?
                            Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                            • #15
                              Re: Re: Some people are just to stupid to be allowed to vote.

                              Originally posted by Comrade Snuggles
                              like, say, people who pass on urban legends without checking their veracity first?
                              You've just proven signature advertising works!

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