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Fitness model Rebecca Burger killed by exploding whipped cream dispenser
syracuse.com ^ | June 22, 2017 | GEOFF HERBERT

Posted on 06/22/2017 8:55:40 AM PDT by PROCON

A French fitness model and lifestyle blogger is dead after a "domestic accident."

The BBC reports Rebecca Burger, 33, was killed Sunday when a can of whipped cream suddenly exploded, apparently causing a heart attack. French media said she died of cardiac arrest after the dispenser burst, striking her in the chest.

Her Instagram account, which had more than 160,000 followers, shared a photo after her death showing the whipped cream siphon that "exploded and struck Rebecca's thorax, resulting in her death."

The brand of whipped cream dispenser Burger used was not named, but the BBC says a French consumer group has issued warnings for years about faulty connectors on gas capsules that can cause them to break, causing eye injuries, broken bones and even death. Whipped cream cans inject gas into a metal container, keeping the entire dispenser under high pressure.

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: explosion; rebeccaburger; whippedcream
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To: PROCON

Looks like it’s not one of the cheapo dispensers from the grocery store but a refillable one that uses pressurized N2O cartridges. Could have been a faulty model, or just a mistake loading that cartridge improperly.


21 posted on 06/22/2017 10:04:01 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: PROCON

The can went off prematurely?


22 posted on 06/22/2017 10:30:21 AM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: PROCON

It’s time to ban whipped cream.


23 posted on 06/22/2017 11:28:14 AM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: PROCON

Note to self: buy Cool Whip in the tub only.


24 posted on 06/22/2017 11:35:48 AM PDT by texteacher
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To: PROCON

That looks suspiciously like the ISI we own. Hmmm, I’ll make sure I tell Hubby to be really careful when he makes whipped cream in it.


25 posted on 06/22/2017 11:42:09 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

Check out Randy here with the civil war wound from the valve of a CO2/PCP conversion. (At 4:15, GRAPHIC)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a1hrms0i2LU

He had that thing pulled out under a local and had the doc bring a mirror in so he could watch!

I’ll be shooting against him on their home turf at OR state championship :-)


26 posted on 06/22/2017 12:44:26 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: PROCON

What a lovely young woman she was. This sucks.


27 posted on 06/22/2017 12:54:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: PROCON

Just... wow. RIP.


28 posted on 06/22/2017 1:07:43 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Axenolith

Yikes! Now I know what coulda happened!


29 posted on 06/22/2017 1:32:48 PM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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