Read in the Flathead Beacon:

Montana Home Evacuated After Bear Spray Explodes in Oven It's unclear why the bear spray was in the oven BY ASSOCIATED PRESS // DEC 16, 2019 BOZEMAN — Authorities say a home in southern Montana was evacuated after a can of bear spray exploded in a warming oven. Graver Johnson, battalion chief with the Bozeman Fire Department, says three fire engines were sent to the home Tuesday because it was initially thought that the structure was on fire. The explosion was contained in the oven, and firefighters used fans to air out the building. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports it’s unclear why the bear spray was in the oven, and three men who live at the home declined to comment. No injuries were reported. Bear spray contains capsaicin, the chemical found in hot peppers, and other capsaicinoids. It’s meant to ward off charging bears or other dangerous animals.

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I keep spray paint in the oven, but bear spray is just dumb.

Everyone knows the oven is for ammo and grenades, not freaking bear spray.

Rookies. Bear spray is best served medium rare.

Important safety tip; bear spray is not bear repellent and should not be used like mosquito repellent.

We had a small kitchen in one building where I worked in the basement and someone wanted hot sauce on the bugger. So the guy at the grill wasn't thinking and squired some on the burger and once it hit the grill it vaporized and cleared the room.

I was laughing just from the thread title. I read the post and now I’m just about dyin’ over here. “...the three men who live at the home declined to comment.” Yeah, little wonder.

I guess I get the logic of “hiding” valuables in the oven if you’re living in an apartment and have limited choices on where to put them when you’re not around. Even then, it doesn’t work out all that well sometimes, like when my sister decided to pre-heat her laptop in college. But bear spray?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it was Olé Chuck Darwin that said "Stupidity should be painful".

Three dudes living together? Willing to bet one knew the other would be cooking ans so he pranked him with it.

You've got to love it. No I don't have any bear spray, but then we don't have many bears around here-abouts. Ok, ovens are for cooking good stuff, not long term storage of anything. Reference the rule about stupidity in the above post. My wife buys and uses various bug sprays if she even see's tracks of insects. So its not how you use bear spray? Around the foundation and doors to keep them out? Yogi won't be stealing pies off the window sill.

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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:
Important safety tip; bear spray is not bear repellent and should not be used like mosquito repellent.

Okay. Alright, important safety tip. Thanks Egon.

I would venture to guess that alcohol may have been involved in the storage decision making process.

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Originally posted by Rev. A. J. Forsyth:
Three dudes living together? Willing to bet one knew the other would be cooking ans so he pranked him with it.

That is the first thing that came to my mind.

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Originally posted by Loswsmith:

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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:
Important safety tip; bear spray is not bear repellent and should not be used like mosquito repellent.

Okay. Alright, important safety tip. Thanks Egon.

Ok, I lost it. Hard.

My cousin put a bunch of plastic stuff in her oven for storage, forgot it , started the oven, and almost burned her house down. TWICE!!!!!

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it’s unclear why the bear spray was in the oven

To convert it from bear repellent into firefighter attractant?

"It's unclear why the bear spray was in the oven"

What. You want bears in your oven?

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Originally posted by copaup:
What. You want bears in your oven?

I had a customer who had a second oven installed in his basement to rent out the basement. His family grew and it became his son's room. He also had a computer hobby. For some reason he decided to store hard drives, motherboards, RAM, and various cards in said oven.

He had a main breaker fail in his house. To save ruining his electrical panel, I disconnected one of the legs to his panel at the meter, so he was only getting 120v to half the house, no 240v. Came back a couple days later to replace his breaker.

Everything went smooth, installed the breaker, got power restored. This was July and 90+ out. They had been at this point 6-7 days with limited power. Turn all breakers on, test A/C, no damage from failed breaker! Good news cold air finally.

Went out to fill out paperwork. Came back in to the smell of an electrical fire. Pull panel cover, run through house looking all over for source of the smell. Determine it's coming from the basement. He says "oh shit, did you turn on the bottom left breaker?" "Yes."

He neglected to tell me that he had a oven he no longer used that he repurposed to store computer components. Run back downstairs, kill breaker. We move a pallet full of junk he has piled in front of oven door. Open the door and the worst smell comes out I have ever smelled.

Having no clue what kind of chemicals are being release, I tell him I can't help any more, there is no active fire, just lots of smoke. Told him to get kids out the house and open all windows. Man that was the worst smell ever.