This literally happened to me in 2007 from a biker style stool from Cosco. Exploded 2seconds after getting off of it 3 days after purchase. I’m so lucky I wasn’t on it, I’d probably be dead, but it threw me into the wall from the blast and set my kitchen on fire. I thought someone threw a grenade at my house or the oven exploded or something. Absolutely terrifying.
My boss accidentally exploded two office chairs on the same day. These chairs had really massive springs in them that, when the chairs exploded, they were shot like ricocheting projectiles. Luckily though, nowhere near as this explosive. The office had been undergoing renovation for a couple months and, watching this video, they probably cheaped out on the office chairs.
" ... when you feel a hot stickiness. You close your eyes, hoping it won't be what you think it is. But when you bring your hands up in front of you to look, ..." had me dead 💀😭 Edit: thanks for 44 likes
Not irrational. Irrational is a purple hippo charging at you while doing the moonwalk aggressively. Rationally is when something has happened before, and has the potential to happen again in a reasonable setting. And you're instincts are going "nope, let's prevent that".
I always wondered why all the high end chairs I see have such hefty steel plates between the cylinder and the seat. I had no idea it was a story written in blood.
notice a trend in all the victims? they're all chinese and their chairs are most likely low quality local made chairs that don't have to pass any international safety standards for export.
This almost happened to my brother, thankfully the air piston shot out the bottom of the chair legs instead and chunked into the floor. It only toppled him.
I'm definitely eyeing my cheap one that I got off Amazon pretty hard, given their tendency to let random sellers pass their products off as more legitimate ones.
ESPECIALLY never cheap out on tires. As a car guy, tires are probably the most important part of the car; arguably even more important than the engine or electric motor propelling it forward. It's a much better bet for you to get a set of summer tires for summer and a set of winter tires for winter due to the enhanced grip improving safety
I went with a basic wooden chair years ago. Didn't regret it then. I could have gotten one that was put together a bit better though, since the screws like to unscrew themselves a bit.
I sit on a wooden frame wool cushion chair in front of my computer which I like. I don't really like those cheap plastic roller office chairs since they break too easily and I worry about falling off the office chair.
I also sit in a non office chair but plastic because in mu opinion it's more comfortable than wooden xd and i meant non roller and not an adjustable height
Ikr xD I'm already shopping for a comfortable fixed height chair. All this so we can adjust it, no thanks. I'm done. I'm opting out of adjustable height chairs for all of my life.
@@toothpasteproductions3942 I settled on one of those gliding rocking chairs for rn lol. Trust me a wooden stool is not gonna be comfy. Unless your gaming chair is 20 years old (unlikely) the chances of it exploding are close to 0. Remember - there's only been 3 cases of this ever occurring and they're all mentioned in the video and (coincidentally or not coincidentally) all happened in China. My advice would be to take your gaming chair to a furniture store that does repairs or any other qualified person and have them replace the piston with a wooden dowel if you're really concerned. They might give you some funny looks for your odd request but it should be a piece of cake for them to do.
clicked on this bc I thought it was gonna be about that guy who died of blood clots after a 19-hour World of Warcraft gaming session and I thought this would elaborate on the WOW controversy, but you subverted my expectations in the absolute worst way possible AND you gave me the belated Christmas gift of a new irrational fear. Great video, please don't keep it up I beg of you
I mean, if we freaked out about every little thing Brew describes as dangerous, the only place that would feel safe is fully padded room with nothing in it but ourselves.
@@sarahstrong7174 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! EDIT: If you respond with something along the lines of 'screaming increases the risk of heart attacks', I intend to actively begin to wish for one.
I always used to grumble about my cheap, plain wooden chair that I use for my desk. It’s literally the most basic chair you could imagine. I’ll never complain about it again after watching this.
And because of a chair. How does one even begin to process the fact they just lost their child... because the kid sat down on a chair. It even sounds absurd.
@@student99bg No, you should buy a good quality chair. Regardless if it's wooden or office chairs. A cheap wooden chair can break and cause injuries too. Just buy a good chair Edit: Looks like I misspoke. I meant to say 'a bad quality chair, (which is usually cheap) can break and cause injuries...'
@@lehimcookkpeople usually throw items in the trash bec they either wanna get a new one or the old one has a broken part(i dont think this can lead the chair to literally explode)
I think there were studies done quite some time ago (like about two decades) that sitting in general shortens your life. It's pretty much unavoidable though in our modern world.
Thanks again Brew, I now fear my chair, the self closing door that's behind me at my job, my pressure cooker... I already had a fear of the water boiler exploding since that happened to my neighbors a couple years ago... But thanks for reminding me.
When I bought a water boiler, it won't automatically off when it's boiled, as its supposed to. So I immediately took it back to the shop I bought it, and changed a different more expensive one. I had fear it might explode.
I really wish that this video didn’t show up on my recommend I literally could’ve not watched this video and not get anxious every time I sit down in my chair
I actually had one explode on me before. I bought it from Walmart. Luckily I wasn’t in the house when it happened, but a guitar I had hanging on the wall fell onto the chair and apparently created enough force to make the chair explode. I came home to a very damaged chair and a metal rod sticking straight out from the middle. And a very broken guitar as well 😂
@@mugsyjpg it was just a small guitar bought from a pawn shop nearby 😅 I guess the chair must’ve been damaged in shipping, but I don’t understand why in went off due to the light guitar but not the handful of times I had sat on it
The fact that the majority of people weren't aware of this proves the chairs are well made and these accidents are not common at all. It is as rare as a phone battery exploding in your hand or you pocket. It exists, but not common enough to be a worry.
But the video serves as a reminder that buying really cheap office chairs (prices vary widely) is very dangerous. I was thinking of buying a cheap adjustable gaming chair from China but now after watching this video... yep I'm only buying the real stuff.
@@_454_ I'm not sure how you're defining "real stuff" but note that even the cheap Chinese chairs were essentially fine if you aren't going into outright regulation-dodging territory.
It's more likely for these kinds of things to be a combination of sus manufacturers and misuse. Bad parts fail all the time, but I'm willing to bet the kid liked to play with the lifting mechanism.
This is some seriously scary stuff. You spend all your money on a high-end gaming computer, then spend 10 or 20 bucks for a gas-powered chair. That's a recipe to get literally fragged.
PSUs should never be cheaped out on, and the fact that they can go forward through many upgrades ought be reason to get as good a one as makes sense for your use case. Same with peripherals like chairs that, yeah, could be a serious health risk. But that's my privilege as someone with some discretionary income speaking; it's not really feasible for many folks who're on tighter budgets I guess.
No, not really that scary. You're reading too much into this. This all happened in China. This is the reason most Chinese with money won't buy Chinese products. The products they ship to other countries are held to a higher standard. When was the last time you heard of a chair doing this in your country? I'm in the US and, I never have. Now, if you can count even one friend that this happened to, then it's time to worry.
@@joltjolt5060 I don't know where you're getting those figures but there are many gas powered chairs that do indeed cost about $10 or $20 across the globe. Naturally these will be in less wealthy countries, but they are prevalent
I came upstairs to find my office chair had randomly sprung up with enough force to tip my desk back and spill everything on it. I immediately thought of this video and I’m now working at my kitchen table, absolutely terrified of going near that chair ever again. I gotta get it out of here.
Imagine sitting down for a gaming session and then your chair violently explodes into flames, setting everything in your room on fire. Literal instant hellfire
Thanks for telling us that cheap is not only often bad, but could be dangerous. And thanks for teaching us how to 18:15 know if the chair is proper safety standard or not.
Hypothetically, we should probably try to create adjustable chairs that have zero chance of explosion. We've gotten too comfortable with various forms of "acceptable risk," particularly when the risks are largely unknown. Edit: OK, this is leading to more debate and discussion than I had anticipated. Luckily, my thoughts on the subject have been evolving. Most of us live in post-industrial societies. Several terrible things have been mitigated, thanks to things like modern medicine, while several other terrible things have become more common, as a result of society being completely reshaped around modern technology. Some of these things are "necessary evils," to an extent, but they can probably be mitigated/lowered, and some of these things are sort of pointless or odd. Chairs with smoothly adjustable height are one of the more pointless and odd things. It seems as though this is something that was adopted en masse due to their sheer convenience, all while most people are completely unaware of the small chance of explosion if the chairs are poorly manufactured or significantly worn down. A lot of modern society works this way: people are just thrown into accepting certain things without fully being aware of them. In the case of many modern nations, it's capitalism and the industrial revolution that have driven this. Hypothetically several other things could drive this, since a lot of the stuff that people have just adopted come from the industrial revolution and the evolution of various products. Capitalism is probably not an absolutely necessary ingredient in this recipe. While chairs with smoothly adjustable height (via gas cylinders) are not the best example of weird things that the public should have put more thought into or been given more knowledge on, since the odds of explosion are slim, they still represent an example of an odd risk that does not need to exist. Things like the original widespread use of lead is a better example of things that should not have been done, despite the convenience of lead. Adjustable height gas cylinders are much lower in this list of things, but they're still technically there to some extent, mostly because they're far from being a "necessary evil" of modern society.
@@danielyoung_ Quite possible, though exploding gas cylinders that control chair height are more of an odd risk that has a small chance of happening under normal circumstances than a "small risk."
The Herman Miller Aeron, Steelcase leap, and Allsteel Acuity are very safe and have no chance of explosion at all but, they’ll will have a chance that you will go broke because they are expensive.
@@MrNobody47710 These gas cylinders usually don't explode, there is just a hissing sound and the chair would not adjust any longer. They don't explode in a self destructive way. It seems that chair in the video had some sort of defective cylinder combined with weak underplate or whatever it had. I see my chair has about 2mm of steel plate above the cylinder a steel bar (for regulation there) and 2 inches of some wood plastic composite, above that is the soft part... no way this thing is going to brake. And by the way my chair is from China and is relatively cheap but is sturdy and I usually buy office chairs from that brand it's about $150. Yes they break after a few years of use but in a non destructive way. (and only 1 of them had a gas cylinder problem... and it just puffed and stopped working it didn't explode or do anything else at all)
I remember playing Goldeneye in the N64. Always found funny how shooting chairs would make them explode... but they knew something that we ignored back then. Now a new fear has been unlocked.
Consider donating blood in his memory. I used to donate regularly, but I'm 70 now and not allowed. The needle hurts for a second, but then you feel good all week! 😊
@@malackycolso6782 I personally wouldn't worry. I have never heard of such a case in the West... at least that I remember. Unless you got it from Amazon, chances are it's perfectly safe, well built, and the worst thing you'll have happened is that it will lose its ability to maintain its height and slowly sink to the ground every time you try to pump it up. I also have a tendency to flop in my chair, and I've used chairs for well over 10 years. You're probably fine.
Instead of encouraging people to go out and check their chairs and even buy new ones I think it would've been better to mention there have only ever been 3 of these office chair incidents, and you covered all 3. Furthermore all 3 of these accidents, which like I said have been the only office chair explosion incidents, all happened in China. The most recent one happening all the way back in 2013, with no further incidents happening since, only one of the 3 resulting in death, and 2 of the 3 incidents taking place less than a year apart from each other. The likelihood of you experiencing your office chair exploding is about the same as you experiencing spontaneous human combustion (if it exists)
But there are a LOT more of these incidents with similar chair with a single pole attached to it that lifts them up and down(adjust height) Just use regular chairs!
You're wrong he did say the likelihood is very low because those Chinese chairs are illegal to sell in most places also its not a bad idea to check your chairs because other parts can fail as well since everything wears out over time and when the cushion and padding is deteriorating you buy a new chair so you clearly misunderstood the ending
As a biology student I can almost attest for that. You're likely riding a dangerous shark right now 🤣 Most sharks don't really want to eat you. In fact they can be easily pushed away by tapping the nose and giving them sensory overload...
@@partygamer62gamereviewsand76 the gas spring isn't under enough pressure to just explode like that. you're body wight can compress it. for this to happen they would have been overfilled by alot.
I think the best thing about this is that apparently there's a Chinese version of Mythbusters. I want to see what sort of thing they've covered cause the dropping weights on chairs episode looked great!
5 minutes in:"*looks at office chair*maybe I shouldn't sit on you anymore,"14 more minutes pass by:*looks at office chair again*"I'm not sitting on you ever again I don't trust you anymore."
This just encourages me to keep using my beanbag and throw pillows more. Can't afford a nice office/gaming chair and have a massive beanbag I use instead. Probably going to see some video later about beanbag dangers, but for now, I'll keep enjoying the massive beanbag.
Wait until you hear that off-label unregulated beanbags are sometimes filled with surplus c4 pellets that fall out of the molds, as a cost saving measure. (JK, and C4 would actually by safe in that scenario anyway)
bro i changed my chair in the middle of this video fr. i was too scared that my chair use those cheap gas spring like that one mention in the video ahaha
That's really scary! I've seen a whole bunch of office chairs that got stuck in the lower position. I bet that the gas had leaked out slowly, but it shows that even regulated chairs can have similar problems, which could at least theoretically end much worse!
Leaking out slowly is very different in cause as well as consequences, than combusting and exploding. I don't see how it could be much worse in theory.
Mine always sets in the lowest, because I'm short and obese (everytime I tried to set it higher, it would just sliding down back to the lowest, probably because I'm too heavy, or that old thing was just already broken in the first place (second hand, most likely made in China, probably why the first buyer(s) sold it back to the thrift market)). I wonder if I had to throw it out of my house right this moment, but there's still some sentimental feelings to it too, it's s been the chair I sit on everyday since 2015.
“All the cases of office chairs being in China are just out of luck” no it’s because of all the companies cheaping out on manufacturing these exploding office chairs that are resulting in the cases being in China. To ship to European countries or America, you need to provide safety labels, manuals and the manufacturers tag. So these chairs would have never ended up in the homes of most people watching this video anyway.
This happened to me but instead of a violent explosion, the metal rod pierced the bottom of the plastic chamber that it was in. I'm not sure why this happened, my cat was sitting on it before me, so I blame sabotage.
This happened to my neighbor who attended college. It took 7 hours of surgery to save him. His family sued the manufacturer of the office chair after their son left the hospital and to this day is still wheelchair bound. They sued for $4,998,745.00 and they won their lawsuit! I hope for speedy court settlements for these families aswell.
The chances of an office chair exploding is one in a trillion so don’t be afraid of your 10+ year office chair. For it to explode all the seals have to be broken, the piston has to be loose and the chair has to be at its lowest. Or pressurised air is used instead of pressurised gas. Even if you have a cheap brand you have to be really really unlucky for the chair to explode. So don’t worry too much.
my friends showed me an image of the aftermath of one of these events a few years ago. i’ve had the irrational fear of my chair exploding ever since. this video actually lessened my fear of it quite considerably
