Ukrainian student dies from exploding chewing gum

[DetroitSportsFan]

Talk about a freak accident....

RIA Novosoti, the Russian news agency, says the incident occurred while the unidentified 25-year-old student at Ukraine's Kiev Polytechnic Institute was working at a computer at his parents' house in the city of Konotop.

"A loud pop was heard from the student's room," ukranews.com reports, quoting an aide to the police chief . "When his relatives entered the room they saw that the lower part of the young man's face had been blown off."

The report says a forensic examination found that the gum was covered with an unidentified chemical substance, thought to be some type of explosive material.

Investigators found that the student often dipped his chewing gum into a packet of citric acid and had inadvertently dipped it instead into a similar-looking packet holding explosive material that was also on his desk.

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...-chewing-gum/1

[JJ]

Holy crap. Was it instant?

[Batman1980]

Since it was an explosion but he was chewing on it he probably got a couple of good chews out of it before it tore his head off.

[bageleaterkkjji]

must've been a sticky situation

[Mr. J]

I bet that hurt...

[Rblu-Dblu]

I wonder how that tasted.

[Deadset]

Investigators found that the student often dipped his chewing gum into a packet of citric acid and had inadvertently dipped it instead into a similar-looking packet holding explosive material that was also on his desk.

Note to self: Keep citric acid bowl away from explosive material bowl.

[GLaDOS]

Ugh, that's the last thing someone's ever going to chew or taste in his life.

[MaCruz]

It's a good thing I don't chew gum.

[BruceWayne]

All I can think of is Mission Impossible. "don't chew it"

[Septimus Prime]

So, uh...why was there an open cannister of "explosive material" on his desk in the first place?

[P@t_Mtl]

The gum that keep's on blowing and blowing and blowing

[gvortex7]

Originally Posted by jayvo2008

I bet that hurt...

I bet you it didn't. His death had to have been instantaneous.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by BruceWayne

All I can think of is Mission Impossible. "don't chew it"

That was the first thing I thought of too.

[JJ]

...too soon?

[KingBing]

[anomynous]

Originally Posted by bageleaterkkjji

must've been a sticky situation

[Meeklo]

So.....how long till this is tested by the Mythbusters?

Originally Posted by JJxiv1215

...too soon?

Are you Joel McHale?

[jadedeath]

Good thing he didn't try to blow a bubble...

Logan

[,deeii]

Ouch!