The Light Goes Boom...!

The very last thing you would expect to get an injury from is your flashlight, right?

Well, this article from Listverse proves just how dangerous this handy tool can be, given the right conditions. Pretty damn scary, if you ask me. I never even thought about something like this ever happening...never!

Flashlights

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In January 2015, Coloradoan Christopher Reid Carrington was searching for tools in the back of his truck. To free his hands, he held his flashlight in his mouth. A few seconds later, it exploded, causing third-degree burns to his lip, tongue, and throat. Blood gushed from his mouth, and he was unable to speak, but his seven-year-old son called 911. Carrington spent four days in the hospital, a tube down his throat helping him to breathe, before he was released. Doctors said he may never be able to taste anything again.

In a similar incident on November 7, 2017, in Bradley, Indiana, Caleb Joyner, 36, was injured when a flashlight exploded in his mouth.[2] After experiencing car trouble, he’d stopped in a parking lot to look under the hood of his car. The flashlight exploded when, while bending over for a better look, Joyner came too close to the vehicle’s battery. He died the next day in a local hospital.

I think that both of these incidents were very unusual, but it makes you stop and think; just how safe are the things we sometimes have to really count on. Just another nagging question to ponder, i reckon.

Coffee in the kitchen this morning. Way too cold to go outside!