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(clickbaity piece on topic, sort of) Metal drinking straw fatally impales woman through her eye after fall Elena Struthers-Gardner, 60, suffered brain injurie
by B1FF_PSUVM 7y ago
(clickbaity piece on topic, sort of)
Metal drinking straw fatally impales woman through her eye after fall
Elena Struthers-Gardner, 60, suffered brain injuries when she fell onto an eco-friendly metal drinking straw which impaled her eye, an inquest heard.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/metal-drinking-straw-fatally-impales-woman-through-her-eye-after-fall/ar-AAE5usQ https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/metal-drinking-...
- beenBoutIT 7y agoShe must not have seen this classic '1000 Ways to Die' segment where a platinum drinking straw starts out in a nostril and ends up in a frontal lobe. https://youtu.be/rALPqV7pUhk https://youtu.be/rALPqV7pUhk
- erentz 7y agoI’m always very uncomfortable with people drinking out of bottles or using straws or other utensils in a car while it’s in motion. If the driver needs to brake urgently bad things can happen. Bottles will take out your teeth. Straws and other utensils will damage your palette and throat or an eye.
- lostlogin 7y agoIt was the final straw. While the above is obviously bad, how does it compare with the injury rate from plastic straws? With plastic it would not have been zero.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoDidn't Starbucks's metal straws injure children's mouths or something? (Edit: Yes, they were recalled. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/starbucks-metal-straw-recall-1.370551 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/starbucks-metal-straw-recal...) I think paper straws are a safer solution, alas they don't maintain rigidity well when wet.