A US woman needed hospital treatment after she was shot in the leg by her own stove.
Cory Davis, 56, of Sekiu, Washington state, had just stoked her cast-iron stove when something inside it exploded.
She heard a loud bang and was struck by something on the inside of her left calf, reports the Peninsula Daily News.
"I kept thinking, 'jeez that was one fast hot coal flying at me'," she said. "But it wasn't a coal."
It was part of a 22-gauge shotgun shell that had been accidentally placed in the stove along with some newspaper.
Ms Davis said a case of ammo had spilled out in her home a month ago and one shell must have been inside the newspaper she used to light the stove.
"There's always that one problem stray," she said. "And of course, it got me. How many people get shot by your stove?"
She removed the metal fragment from her wound herself, then visited the local Forks Community Hospital the next day.
A doctor cleaned the wound and gave her a tetanus shot - then contacted the police in case the shell had been discharged from a gun.
But Sgt Brian King, of the Clallam County Sheriff's Department, accepted Ms Davis's story and said a hunter had been injured in a similar case when bullets had fallen into a fire several years ago.
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