Is anything safe anymore?

I just saw this article online: "Boy Killed Anally When Office Chair Explodes." It was reported on Gizmodo.com, a blog about gadgets.

Here's the rest of the article:

A 14-year-old boy in China was killed when his chair exploded, sending chunks of metal into his rectum. The bleeding this caused killed him.

The alleged explosion came from the gas cylinder that was in the base of the chair, the part that allowed the user to adjust the seat up and down. The canister gets compressed when you sit on it, but can it actually create enough energy to make the seat cushion explode like that and kill a man? I doubt it, but this is what people are reporting.

Oh, and there are pictures--of the chair.





So, I think I'm going to just stand from now on....