grego
02-21-2009, 09:01 AM
Take this for whatever it is worth... Even if its not true, it makes me a little antsy now on my chair.
Boy Killed Anally When Office Chair Explodes
By Adam Frucci, 2:44 PM on Fri Feb 20 2009, 195,437 views
Gizmodo (http://i.gizmodo.com/5157354/boy-killed-anally-when-office-chair-explodes)
Well, stories don't get much worse than this. A 14-year-old boy in China was killed when his chair exploded, sending chunks of metal into his rectum. The bleeding this caused killed him.
The alleged explosion came from the gas cylinder that was in the base of the chair, the part that allowed the user to adjust the seat up and down. The canister gets compressed when you sit on it, but can it actually create enough energy to make the seat cushion explode like that and kill a man? I doubt it, but this is what people are reporting.
In other news, I am working from a beanbag from
Boy Killed Anally When Office Chair Explodes
By Adam Frucci, 2:44 PM on Fri Feb 20 2009, 195,437 views
Gizmodo (http://i.gizmodo.com/5157354/boy-killed-anally-when-office-chair-explodes)
Well, stories don't get much worse than this. A 14-year-old boy in China was killed when his chair exploded, sending chunks of metal into his rectum. The bleeding this caused killed him.
The alleged explosion came from the gas cylinder that was in the base of the chair, the part that allowed the user to adjust the seat up and down. The canister gets compressed when you sit on it, but can it actually create enough energy to make the seat cushion explode like that and kill a man? I doubt it, but this is what people are reporting.
In other news, I am working from a beanbag from