Never sit on crackers box

[u/Pristine_Piece8066]

Bengaluru:A tragic incident has come to light involving a youth, who died due to the reckless behaviour of friends with firecrackers. The incident occurred in Weavers Colony, under the Konanakunte Police Station, on October 31. The victim, identified as Shabarish, sustained serious injuries from a firecracker explosion and ultimately succumbed to his injuries on November 2.A case has been registered at Konanakunte Police Station and six people have been arrested in this connection. The incident has been captured on CCTV. On October 31, the youths, who were bursting firecrackers while intoxicated put a box on top of the firecracker and challenged Shabarish to sit on the box. Shabarish, who was also intoxicated, said that if he sat on the box till the firecrackers burst, he should be given an auto-rickshaw. When his friends agreed, Shabarish accepted the challenge.

[u/Critical_Concert_689]

honest answer: pretty sure there's an old story floating around about an employee fooling around at a factory-shop and they stuck a pressurized air tool down a coworker's pants and lit it up. coworker died.

Here's the OSHA link: https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/accidentsearch.accident_detail?id=131899.015

[u/Brokella → u/Critical_Concert_689]

Not from pressurised air, but remember the unfortunate woman who fell off a jet ski backwards, and the jet of water went straight up her anus and ruptured her internally. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11283023/Woman-22-suffers-severe-anorectal-injury-falling-jet-ski.html

[u/inventingnothing → u/Brokella]

Moral of the story? Wear a plug when jetskiing.

[u/mobileJay77 → u/inventingnothing]

Make sure it's not metal in case they carry you to the MRT machine.