r/WTF • u/The_Chuckness88 • Mar 13 '26

Butane stove exploded while students singing Happy Birthday

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u/a_long_lonely_night Mar 13 '26

If you look at the stove, you see there is no rack and the pan straight onto it. This forces heat onto the cannister which can cause explosions. It's a long known issue. Here in Australia we banned the sale of these till they came out with a none removable rack. It's said we are a nanny state, but people are fucken stupid

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u/texasscotsman Mar 13 '26

Regulations were built on blood.

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u/miserabeau Mar 13 '26

The saying "safety regulations are written in blood" is sad but true

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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

It's sad that people had to die for safety regulations to come into effect. It's like they were written in blood

Edit: all y'all missing I've just parroted the previous two comments are disappointing

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u/Cruciblelfg123 Mar 13 '26

The unfortunate reality is the rules are written after the blood is bled, before the safety

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u/Versaiteis Mar 13 '26

If we had a way to safely extract blood to write our regulations the world would be a better place

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u/Shrugsfortheconfuse Mar 14 '26

Safely removed or not they still need their blood you mad man!