<p>My son’s microwave exploded on Monday. We just heard about it tonight. Evidently someone down the hall thought it would be funny to hide my son’s roommate’s cologne bottles in the microwave. His roommate did not look inside when he went to heat up his coffee. The cologne bottles exploded and the door blew off the microwave. It is a miracle that no one was injured with the glass shards. Now this is not something I knew to worry about!</p>
<p>moosemom: kids have been playing with microwaves for as long as there have been microwaves.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Egg in Microwave!](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ums3PzBZtuE&feature=related]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ums3PzBZtuE&feature=related)</p>
<p>Not so sure it was an accident. College kids can be hard on appliances. At my brother’s frat in the 70’s (Chi Phi at RPI), they used to throw a TV off the roof once a year just to watch it explode (there was usually alcohol involved). He thought it was fun, until one year when they grabbed HIS TV and threw it off the roof.</p>
<p>And people wonder why landlords hate college kids.</p>
<p>I know a guy who was a young college student at MIT when microwaves first hit the consumer market. The warnings said DANGER - don’t put metal in the microwave. So what’s the very first thing the science nerds did? Put a fork in the microwave, of course. ;)</p>
<p>Haven’t you put a crunched up piece of aluminum foil in microwaave just to watch the “show” and “sparks” fly?</p>
<p>I don’t think this was planned, at least by my son’s roommate; maybe the guy down the hall thought about it! Roommate is not talking to the prankster, and my son was at work when it happened. Supposedly the joker is replacing the microwave.</p>
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<p>What do you bet he tries to wiggle out of the agreement to do that?:rolleyes:
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<p>Too bad we can’t place warning labels on teen aged boys.:D</p>
<p>^^^ and middle-aged men, too. H liked to microwave AOL CDs.</p>
<p>Were the cologne-heating guys chem. majors, by any chance? Were they trying to speed up a chemical reaction? LOL! It takes a special MW though, with a bomb-proof screen covering the reactor cavity.</p>
<p>Your son and his roommate were VERY lucky - shortly after I was married I set a just-baked pie in a Pyrex dish onto an electric burner that was not quite cooled off - when the pan shattered, a few of the shards went into my arm, if my back wasn’t turned it might have been my eyes. And that was something accidental - the thought that this was intentional (whether or not it was intended to have the bottled ‘cooked’) really bothers me!! I hope the prankster replaces everything that was destroyed…</p>
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<p>My family has what we call the “Great Mac & Cheese Casserole Incident of Thanksgiving 2003”.</p>
<p>when my D was taking a class at a local community college one summer when she was home for break, a classmate was a former Reedie who had been expelled for using a microwave.
He was a chem major and apparently was trying to make crack or meth or something I don’t remember. :p</p>
<p>One of my classmates ( who is changing careers after 20 years at a television station) upon seeing my Reed College canvas bag ( I use it for my tools) remarked that he had attended Linfield college ( in McMinnville) and that they had gotten all their psychedelics from chem majors @ Reed.</p>
<p>They are not allowed microwaves in the dorm rooms at Reed.</p>