Yikes! She finally sobers up, and then THIS happens!
My wife and I fought over these. I hated them at first sight and said they were incredibly dangerous. Took repeated arguments to finally get them out of the house and away from our kids.
I hate it when that happens.
Well, she did her part to save the environment twice over: she used a non-plastic straw and she will no longer leave much of a carbon footprint. Me, I’m waiting for the accidents to start with the glass straws — yeah, glass, cuz that’s a thing — then the really injurious fun begins!
I’m just glad I remember the joys of the much-safer paper straws!
At least no turtles had a plastic straw up their nose in her neighborhood. Always think of the good.
Almost impossible to clean a metal straw. I would never use one. Actually, never been offered one.
At least it wasn’t plastic
I’m sure with her age and prior conditions, a wooden splinter in her big toe would have been a death sentence in the UK’s socialized healthcare system.
Metal straws will be the weapon of choice due to the knife ban.
The clinical description the partner gives of the victim’s injuries sounds very like Charles Stuart speaking of his wife Carol, whom he had just shot (Boston, 1989).
Struck an off note with me then, and does now. But perhaps the partner is in healthcare, and is used to that kind of description, and she was speaking days, not minutes later.
She was essentially running with scissors when considering her health problems.
While I don’t like the steel straw craze (they are really hot in my industry), this incident is just Darwin in action. Culling the herd.
I know it sounds cold, but protecting idiots from themselves only allows them to reproduce. With predictable results for our culture.
I heard a similar story about 30 years ago about a guy in Phoenix who cooked himself a steak, was carrying it out to where he was going to eat it while watching TV, holding his fork/knife, tripped/fell, and stuck the knife into his eye as he fell.
Not surprisingly, knives are as effective as metal straws when jammed into an eye.
No plastic was used in the commission of this event.
Yeah these are not a good idea. I have one in a cup on my night stand and have damn near broken my teeth trying to get the straw at night.
Yikes. Brain core.
This is why plastic straw bans should be banned. Here we have the ban’s first victim.
If it saves just one life...
ban the straw!!
I remember as a kid when glass straws were used in hospitals, and they’re available again. However I want the sterling silver plated metal straws they have at London’s Fortnum & Mason. Nothing but the best for me!
(I love my Yeti tumblers of various sizes and two new Yeti bottles, my Trader Joe’s cloth bags, and the new reusable vegetable bags. I’m no envirowacko but a conservative who wouldn’t want to waste stuff.)
I will stick with plastic.
Maybe Toby Keith will write a song about blue plastic straws to embolden the masses.
Sounds as though she was murdered and the weapon was a metal straw.