joe randel's art dump

So… is your computer chair made in China? If so you could be sitting on a bomb. Think I’m joking? Well tell that to the 14 year old Chinese boy that had the gas cylinder at the base of his chair (the one that help to raise or lower the chair) explode. Oh wait… you can’t because he’s dead. Yup, the explosion from his chair sent metal shrapnel in to his rectum and, unfortunately, he bled to death.

How horrific is this story? I can’t imagine having this happen to myself let alone come home and find my child a victim of such a freak accident. But let’s stand back for a moment. Could this really happen? Is this just an internet “story” making the rounds? In the pictures after the above link I don’t see any blood on the seat and if I follow the source links I just keep being taken to blog to blog and news post to news post with the same pictures every time. It’s a scary story for sure, but is it true? After thinking about it for some time I can’t come to a conclusion if it is or not. What do you think?

If it is true, my heart goes out to the family. If not… then you’ve fooled me again interents.

This sounds like a job for the Mythbusters!