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02 May 2013, 3:35 pm

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Seeing as you are 30, you better be entertaining little kids when you play hide and seek.


As long as he's not playing find the rabbit...


What?



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02 May 2013, 3:46 pm

PsychoSarah wrote:
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Seeing as you are 30, you better be entertaining little kids when you play hide and seek.


As long as he's not playing find the rabbit...


What?


Sorry.

Clue: I don't mean a literal rabbit.

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02 May 2013, 3:59 pm

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They said the microwave was an old one sitting in a door- up position in the back of a pickup so it's safe to assume that it wasn't plugged in and on one turned it on. I seriously doubt it even worked anymore.
You cannot unlatch a microwave from the inside so he was stuck in there and suffocated. At 6 I was of average size and there's no way I could have fit in that microwave.


This sounds like it's a variation on the 'locked fridge' thing. We used to have locked fridges in this country before they were phased out as a safety hazard, and I think some people still use them in some parts of the world (I was told that South Africa might be one of them). If someone becomes locked in a locked fridge, they'll suffocate and die.

That said, this is awful.



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02 May 2013, 4:44 pm

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Darwin award? That is cold. Someone had to turn it on after he got in it (if microwaves then were like mine, they don't work unless it is closed).


Quite, I would imagine that is a particularly painful way to die as well.

Given that someone must've pressed the 'on' button shouldn't there have been a murder investigation?
If it was then the suspect would be the father perhaps? I dont know but it is said the microwave was in the back of a truck.


usually microwaves dont have a handle on the inside door.

How the hell did he manage to get the purchase to close it on himself?
Yeah Ive been wondering the same thing. Unless it was closed from the outside? I take back what I said if I recalled I used to do dangerous stuff as a kid but I was 3 I used to play with black widows and hold them in my hand! But still I didnt climb into closed containers where im likely to suffocate Im slightly claustrophobic. I just find it bazaar more than anything.


Eeek! There are black widows in the US, the spiders? I'm terrified of spiders, and some insects. Fortunately we don't any big ones here.



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02 May 2013, 5:37 pm

thomas81 wrote:
PsychoSarah wrote:
Seeing as you are 30, you better be entertaining little kids when you play hide and seek.


As long as he's not playing find the rabbit...


Is that like "bobbing for bananas"?



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02 May 2013, 8:29 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
thomas81 wrote:
PsychoSarah wrote:
Seeing as you are 30, you better be entertaining little kids when you play hide and seek.


As long as he's not playing find the rabbit...


Is that like "bobbing for bananas"?
Oh I get it now very funny ha ha *sarcasm*.


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02 May 2013, 9:15 pm

Tequila wrote:
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They said the microwave was an old one sitting in a door- up position in the back of a pickup so it's safe to assume that it wasn't plugged in and on one turned it on. I seriously doubt it even worked anymore.
You cannot unlatch a microwave from the inside so he was stuck in there and suffocated. At 6 I was of average size and there's no way I could have fit in that microwave.


This sounds like it's a variation on the 'locked fridge' thing. We used to have locked fridges in this country before they were phased out as a safety hazard, and I think some people still use them in some parts of the world (I was told that South Africa might be one of them). If someone becomes locked in a locked fridge, they'll suffocate and die.

That said, this is awful.


You still see some of those old refrigerators with the latching doors in the states. Usually always in garages, workshops, and other man-caves for the nostalgia of them, I guess.

My microwave isn't very old but it does latch shut and has a push-button release on the outside.
After thinking about this case I can't help but suspect foul play, though.
He might have fit in there but how did he close the door to the point were it latches without actually pulling it shut?
There is no handle or anything else on the insideof a microwave to pull it shut enough to activate the latch and the door isn't heavy enough to activate the latch from weight alone.


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