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Can Office Chairs Explode?
🕑 Added 2023-03-31 10:15:01 +0000 UTCIn this short I mention that there have been several office chair explosions in China. It’s a problem that gained a lot of media attention, and has even been covered in a Chinese TV program called Seeking Truth.
Here’s the relevant episode. About five minutes in they conduct a test where they drop sandbags onto several office chairs. The force of the explosion that ensues with some of them is genuinely terrifying – one of the chairs even catches fire after detonating. Not something you’d want to be sitting on!
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Fascinating Horror
That's a relatively local one to me, and one that I've been thinking about covering for a while. It had a real impact on the area!
Fascinating Horror
I reckon most chairs you'd find on Amazon should be, at least, safe. They might not be the best quality, but as far as I can tell even cheap imported products have to meet safety standards...
Michael Rutherford
How about a video on the Lockerbie Disaster?
Dungeoneer
Okay, kinda terrified now, as I bought my chair off Amazon, and we all know various objects'd'dodginess can be purchased there. Oh dear, rocket right up the behind from an office chair? There's something my life was better not knowing! eek!
