Student Killed By exploding Chewing gum

[SapperSix]

A chemistry student from the northern Ukrainian city of Konotop was killed when a stick of chewing gum exploded in his mouth, Ukrainian media reported on Tuesday.
The 25-year-old student of Ukraine's Kiev Polytechnic Institute was working at a computer in his parents' house late on Saturday when the incident occurred.
"A loud pop was heard from the student's room," the ukranews.com portal said, citing an aide to the city's police chief. "When his relatives entered the room they saw that the lower part of the young man's face had been blown off."
A forensic examination established that the chewing gum was covered with an unidentified chemical substance, thought to be some type of explosive material.
Police questioning revealed that the student had a bizarre habit of chewing gum after dunking it into citric acid. On his table, police found both citric acid packets and a similar-looking unidentified substance, believed to be some kind of explosive material.
Investigators believe that the student simply confused the packets, and put the gum, covered with explosive material, into his mouth.
Although the local forensic department does not have the necessary equipment to identify the substance, it refused to send it to the capital, Kiev, over fears that it might explode during transportation. Forensic experts from Kiev are expected in Konotop on Wednesday.
Investigators are to decide within a 10-day period whether a criminal case should be launched.

http://en.rian.ru/strange/20091208/157160984.html

[Old Ape Face]

And this is why it's a bad idea to drink water in a laboratory

[animeotaku99]

I want unknown explosive material on my desk

[willag]

Mission: ImPossible

[Aragami]

Someone must've given him the switcheroo...

[Caster13]

Not even the makers of the show 1000 Ways to Die would have seen this one coming.

[Victory]

uhn bring work home too often and it'll blow up in your face

[RecentMidget]

i wonder how mythbusters would handle this...

[Caster13]

i wonder how mythbusters would handle this...

:eek: They need to make that episode ASAP.

gohan, send this story to them now!

[Arnold]

At least it wasn't pop rocks and pepsi.

Joking aside, though, that's a pretty effed up way to die.

[Caster13]

I prefer to go out like that one elephant seal did.

[Shiroiyuki]

That's gotta blow.

[Jack_Bauer]

That's gotta blow.

Wow.....really? Shiro, I didnt expect that kind of response from you.


Anyway, I must get the recipe for this "explosive" chewing gum. I can use this when I go into the hitman business one day.

[Justinian]

I am really curious to know what chemical that was to explode like that. I know the metal Rubidium would blow the **** out of anything when it touches water, but the chemical was a liquid already...

[Siendra]

I am really curious to know what chemical that was to explode like that. I know the metal Rubidium would blow the **** out of anything when it touches water, but the chemical was a liquid already...

It came in a packet originally. Seems as though he sprinkled it on.

[CrossboneGundam]

This is precisely why former soviet countries are perfectly trustworthy with huge stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

[Aragami]

So I guess you can't taste the difference.

The first thing I thought of was like bugs bunny. Shin, only use explosive chewing gum rather than perfectly good poison if you want to be silly.

[Justinian]

It came in a packet originally. Seems as though he sprinkled it on.

Huh, may have been Rubidium :|

Now that I think of it Cesium would probably be the culprit. It's much more reactive than Rubidium and it WOULD blow the **** out of someones jaw if there was enough. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LILeHRv5qsU&feature=related)

[Soluzar]

Sad thing is he wouldn't have even see it coming. So to speak. He's just going for a stick of gum, then boom. It's all over.

[Caster13]

I'll have to know how to do this so I can possibly use this to kill somebody in the future if I ever needed to.

[Trefellin]

Bubblicious™, the gum with the flavour that explodes in your mouth.

[Leader Desslock]

I hear that Starburst Fruit Chews actually go supernova if you bite 'em wrong. The Tunguska blast? Someone ate a strawberry and a lemon chew simultaneously.

True story.

[Tidusauron12]

And this is why it's a bad idea to drink water in a laboratory

What? :huh:

[fujyoshi]

this is why they say don't swallow your gum

[Aragami]

Hey, you know, plastic was discovered by a mistake too.

The inventor of exploding, suicide gum, he must be a genius.

This guy is a real Willy Wonka!

[Old Ape Face]

What? :huh:

Right, you leave a bottle of drinking water next to some Hydrochloric Acid on the Lab table.

In a beaker the Hydrochloric acid is a clear Liquid much like your water.

Despite the Hydrochloric Acid being in a beaker and not in a water bottle like the water, you accidentally without thinking pick up the Hydrochloric acid and possibly die from ingesting it.

The classic Laboratory mistake.

And further more, even though you might think the bottle of the water is clean, with whatever chemical you are using, you contaminate your drinking water thus makeing the water really un fit for drinking at all.

That is the same Scenario this poor guy found himself in.

[Jack_Bauer]

So I guess you can't taste the difference.

The first thing I thought of was like bugs bunny. Shin, only use explosive chewing gum rather than perfectly good poison if you want to be silly.

I will use it once in a while. Or maybe I can use it as my signature kill.

[Kagura]

Umm, wow. That is one hell of a way to die. Its strange how people have died over candy & gum. Wasn't it a kid named Mikey that did cereal commercials, that had died from Pop Rocks candy? His stomach exploded or something? Idk..

[Arnold]

Umm, wow. That is one hell of a way to die. Its strange how people have died over candy & gum. Wasn't it a kid named Mikey that did cereal commercials, that had died from Pop Rocks candy? His stomach exploded or something? Idk..

Urban legend that has been debunked.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/poprocks.asp

[Old Ape Face]

Urban legend that has been debunked.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/poprocks.asp

they should test this on Mythbusters.

[Caster13]

they should test this on Mythbusters.

They did, a LOOOOONG time ago.

[Old Ape Face]

They did, a LOOOOONG time ago.

I figured they did it sounds like something they'd try to prove.

[waltsoph3]

they should test this on Mythbusters.

actually I remember that one with the jaw breaker. That was crazy. But I agree put this on mythbusters.


@ the story
:( Man that sucks. This just leaves me speechless.

[Old Ape Face]

I saw them blow up a prison cell with Antacids, that was epic.

Perhaps that is the same type of chemical reaction that happens with Pop Rocks, except several times less intense, and humans have a way of expelling gass without spontaniously exploding.

Unlike Seagulls.

[SapperSix]

Side tracking a bit.

I was taught to never use your mouth to crimp a blasting cap, and saw a disturbing picture of it.

[Caster13]

Side tracking a bit.

I was taught to never use your mouth to crimp a blasting cap, and saw a disturbing picture of it.

Please do not show us. >_<

[Kagura]

Ah, ok. I never knew that Mikey actually died from the soda. I just heard it was from Pop Rocks. Thanks for clearing that up, Arnold. Still, who would want to find someone with their face blown off? NOT ME!!

[SapperSix]

Please do not show us. >_<

I bet you'd run away screaming if I start whacking C4 with a hammer.

[Kagura]

*runs away from Sapper* lol

I seriously wonder what kind of candy next will claim a life?

[The Million Dollar Prons]

I bet you'd run away screaming if I start whacking C4 with a hammer.

Depends if I'm standing on the "Point toward enemy" side or not.

[Caster13]

That's a Claymore Prons.

I bet you'd run away screaming if I start whacking C4 with a hammer.

No, because I know that's not how C4 is detonated.

[Jatz]

Ah, ok. I never knew that Mikey actually died from the soda. I just heard it was from Pop Rocks. Thanks for clearing that up, Arnold. Still, who would want to find someone with their face blown off? NOT ME!!

He never did. He's still alive.