Heard this story ages ago...
Can't remember where, but apparently it's true...


A number of years ago the emergency services somewhere in America received a panicked call from a woman in her car in a supermarket parking lot. She claimed that she'd been shot in the back of the head, and her brains were coming out, and she was holding them in with her hand. This was obviously a very disturbing report- not to mention extremely unusual- so an ambulance was sent right away. When they got there, the woman was shocked by their reaction of laughing.

What had happened was that she had done some light shopping, left it in the car and gone off for a few hours. It was a very hot day, and she hadn't left any windows open so the heat built up considerably. One of the things she had bought was a tin of pre-prepared cookie dough. Cookie dough tends to expand in the heat, and was accumulating a lot of pressure in the tin. When she got back in the car, the vibration of closing the door had caused the lid of the tin- complete with wad of dough- to shoot off like a bullet, strike her in the back of the head, and leave behind a sticky, warm, gooey mass. The pain made her think she'd been shot, and you can imagine her panic when she put her hand to the back of her head. So she sat there immobile lest she let her brains fall out.
Must've been a sight for the ambulance men!
(Second sign of madness, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 19:14, 4 replies)

Plausible
...according to Mythbusters
( Matth knows what yellow snow tastes like, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 19:39, closed)

Cool
I didn't know it was such a widely known story!
(Second sign of madness, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 19:47, closed)

Widely known
and older than a very old thing.
(teff, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 11:56, closed)

I've heard of a guy
who was killed by a can of coke. He was in an accident, had his seatbelt on, airbag deployed, and the can of coke he had on the back window hit him on the back of the head at about 80 mph.
(knackerz is skinning up, Tue 27 Apr 2010, 8:51, closed)