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. Sweet merciful crap.

Re-read that with pictures!

that doesn't seem right. just to be on the safe side i'm avoiding my computer chair for a while. when i do go back to it, i'm sittin' down nice and easy.

sounds like the next episode for mythbusters

sure does. reminds me of the one where the water heater (or whatever that was) blew through the roof of their makeshift house.

Good ol' chinese products LOL