Posted on 01/04/2024 10:49:59 PM PST by nickcarraway
An elderly man in Georgia was burned over 75 percent of his body when he tried to open a bag of chips with a lighter, local officials said.
The 75-year-old victim – whose name has not been released – was seriously injured around 4:37 p.m. Wednesday in the City of Dalton, the town’s communications director, Bruce Frazier, told The Post in a statement.
“The victim…was using a lighter to open bags of chips which he was unable to do with his hands. While doing this, the man accidentally set himself on fire while sitting in a recliner,” the press release read. Maintenance workers contained the blaze to the recliner using a water hose under firefighters arrived, it added.
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He’d have been safer with my coffee.
I assume an oxygen tank was involved.
I tell you, packages are getting more difficult to open. The “tear here” seldom works. Kitchen scissors are a must.
Either that or his idea of storing gasoline by his recliner was - well - not a good idea.
It’s bewildering when you read about a senior citizen who’s managed to live to a rather ripe age and part of living to such a ripe age requires some semblance of intelligence, making such a stupid mistake.
When it comes to chips, Fritos make the best torches.
If you don't have a sharp object nearby, the coins in your pocket should suffice. As redditor Xasf explains, "Place two coins on the opposite sides of the bag (close together) and squeeze the bag with your thumbs. Then when you try to rip open the bag, the coins will work as makeshift scissors and neatly cut it open."
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Oh the poor man. I hope he recovers.
Exactly.
Poor guy. IIRC, you subtract your age from 100 and that gives you how much of your body can be burned and you live...
Indeed. I find the same problem. I have to cut the damn bag open of what ever it is and then seal it up in a Glad bag.
Smoky BackroomYou're a real fireball tonight. Really lighting them up. When you're hot, you're hot.
Should have used a shotgun.
Poor guy.
I agree.
(The “tear here” seldom works.)
True
Yeah I get little bags of mayo from the convenience store.
But opening them is decidedly not convenient.
Kraft work pretty well.
Everyone thinks that. But it doesn’t work exactly that way. My father in law was on his deathbed at home. On oxygen. My wife and her brothers got mad when they saw him smoking.
He was in Patton’s Army in WWII.
He pulled off his Oxygen mask and held the cigarette right up to it. The ash on the tip started glowing cherry red, but went away when he took it away from the mask. Then he asked if they had any other questions he could educate them on.
Oxygen alone doesn’t burn.
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