GIZMODO– 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 now on.
Oh, Chinese made, it makes sense now.
When bad things happen to other people, it’s hilarious.
Looks like a big explosion, but I don’t see any blood.
That would utterly suck.
It isn’t just cheap crap, its cheap crap that can kill you. Like American business ethics on steroids.
I think we might need to call in the Mythbusters on this one.
#2
The Chinese are actually space aliens so unlike us humans their blood is blue, conveniently matching the seat cushion color. Chinese office chairs are typically colored blue specifically for this reason.
…ass-blasters. Evidence of a rumbling fadooka fart. No more foo young for you.
Can you imagine the combined power of a ship load of those chairs going off at once?
Now we know why the Russians sunk the ‘New Star’
Stupidity is also another reason for having a bleeding ass. BTW this is very NSFW plus the really gruesome part starts about 20 seconds after it starts playing.
http://1guyand1cup.com/
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By the way, very probably the chair you are sitting on NOW was made in China!
ah i take it this is why leo laporte sits on a giant rubber ball while doing his podcasts, as when they explode he doesnt get an assfull of shrapnel.
Fortunately my chair has no gas container (except when I’m digesting on it), but there’s a coil spring instead!
Anyone heard of similar threats to the rectum from non-hydraulic office chairs?
Might as well prevent injuries and switch back to a basic wooden chair, but not those made in China. Perhaps a log or a rock would be safer.
#9:
Not a cheery thought as I’m sitting on a chair whose origins might be China. Only that mine is leather.
“sending chunks of metal into his rectum”
rectum?,, hell it killed him.
Jesus Christ, how big was that kid? Some would pay for this opportunity, “sending chunks of metal into his rectum.”
The pnuematic cylinder shouldn’t have had that much pressure, the wooden base should’ve been thicker, but most of all that kid should’ve never have dropped his ass down so hard as to break the chair and send the pnuematic cylinder up his rectum.
Poor kid, that’s a bad way to go.
How many people have now turned their chair over to see what is hiding underneath it
Poor Chinese kid couldn’t handle his Angry Whopper. A BK publicity stunt perhaps???
Bogus! That’s not how gas springs work. The pressure does not increase when they are compressed.
I’ll bet he was bouncing up and down in the chair.
Doubt it was a actual explosion, more like a failure caused by misuse.
Too bad there are not pictures of the gas strut.
Yikes!
@#16 – I just did. Scared me for a sec
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#8, Angel,
That was sick. I watched about 21 seconds and that was more than enough.
Fake…
I wonder if they made Leo’s exercise ball…
if it was American made he would have died from salmonella…
#8 – Holy Obama!
It’s been a looonnnggggg time since something was so nasty I had to look away and gag.
I salute you!
How can you misuse a chair? I have a korean made chair with gas cylinder that I bought back in 1995, its fallen off a pickup truck, slid 50 feet down the road, I’ve taken it with me over 3 residences, I’ve stood on it, rocked in it, slept in it, spun in it and it has yet to explode.
Lets face it the Chinese make crap, and they don’t really care because they know we Americans will buy crap as long as its CHEAP.
Well, I have a chair with a gas cylinder that was made five years ago. I’m sitting on it now, I don’t think it could possi AEIEIRIERIEIEIEIEIEIEIEEEEEEeeeeeooowwww…..
#24
Yeah, those guys at Smuckers sure don’t make their strawberry jam bottles as sturdy as they used to 🙂
#28
Algore,
Don’t forget to share it with everyone 🙂