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Boy Killed By Exploding Office Chair
The Land of Smeg writes "A fourteen-year-old boy was killed after the chair he was sitting on exploded, propelling sharp chairs parts into his rectum, resulting in extensive bleeding, to which he succumbed before medical attention could stem the flow. The chair in question was a standard gas cylinder type, where the height is regulated by an adjustable cylinder containing highly pressurized gas, and it was this which exploded, sending high velocity chair parts into the posterior of the unfortunate youth."
Apparently this has been a danger for decades with similar incidents reported in China, Britain, Belgium, and Germany.
Hell, it fucking KILLED him.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
How comes he died from BLEEDING without ANY trace of blood on his BLUE chair?
Nevermind the fact that the pressure required to make this kind of damages is WAY higher than that of such cylinders. The cylinder makes at least 1 square inch: divide the boy's weight by it and that gives you the internal pressure of the cilynder in PS.I. For a 14yr old boy that doesn't make much more that the pressure found in race bicycle tires (100-150 p.s.i)!
I'll never sit on my chair again!
a horrible way to die. Poor kid.
I'm going to put kevlar under my seat.
Per this story from the '80s:
In short, if your chair uses a spring (most likely), then you are in no danger. You can sit easily now.
Don't put advice in your sig.
Actually, I usually sit on an exercise ball. Coworkers ask me about it every once in awhile, I'm the only one doing this (that I know of) in a fair-sized company. I am totally posting this, just to see the reaction.
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
Actually, I usually sit on an exercise ball. Coworkers ask me about it every once in awhile, I'm the only one doing this in a fair-sized company. (that I know of) I am totally posting this, just to see the reaction.
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
and TFA link totally needs a NSFW warning. Dude, seriously.
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
His blood's all over that chair. Where have you been all day?
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
Did you know that pretty much ALL office chairs bought in the last 10 years use these gas cylinders. The only reason they are making news is the same reason exploding batteries, and poisoned milk/petfood are. It was made or used low quality parts made in China.
Dear gods I'm sitting on one of those chairs now. And every place I worked in the last 10 years also had the same damned gas cylinder chairs. Time to switch to one of those fugly ergo chairs, or sit on a inflated ball. At least if the ball explodes, the worst that will happen is the same as someone pulling the chair out form under you. Painful but not deadly.
Next on Slashdot: Steve Ballmer authorizes a large shipment of office chairs for his meeting rooms.
too soon?
Yet another reason to acquire
buns of steel
Know your pads. One time pad: good for cryptography. Two timing pad: where to take your mistress.
The second picture of the chair totally looks like a goatse. Amirite? http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/cache/33373__448x_exploded-chair-gas-cylinder.jpg
I had no clue that the exploding chairs in the video game Goldeneye 007 wasn't a programming oversight, but a feature. You learn something new every day -- you really do.
too late...
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If it were the goatse guy sitting on that chair, the shrapnel could have travelled clean through without hitting a thing.