[nightspirit]

> something that never happened to me with incandescents happened with halogens ... the halogen had blown up scattering little glass shards all over the living room

I've had one incadescent explode. Maybe it didn't scatter glass all over the room, but the bulb was definitely blown and lied in pieces on the floor.

[protomyth]

The halogen had an inner and outer bulb, it went everywhere.