Posted on 06/22/2017 8:55:40 AM PDT by PROCON
A French fitness model and lifestyle blogger is dead after a "domestic accident."
The BBC reports Rebecca Burger, 33, was killed Sunday when a can of whipped cream suddenly exploded, apparently causing a heart attack. French media said she died of cardiac arrest after the dispenser burst, striking her in the chest.
Her Instagram account, which had more than 160,000 followers, shared a photo after her death showing the whipped cream siphon that "exploded and struck Rebecca's thorax, resulting in her death."
The brand of whipped cream dispenser Burger used was not named, but the BBC says a French consumer group has issued warnings for years about faulty connectors on gas capsules that can cause them to break, causing eye injuries, broken bones and even death. Whipped cream cans inject gas into a metal container, keeping the entire dispenser under high pressure.
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Looks like it’s not one of the cheapo dispensers from the grocery store but a refillable one that uses pressurized N2O cartridges. Could have been a faulty model, or just a mistake loading that cartridge improperly.
The can went off prematurely?
It’s time to ban whipped cream.
Note to self: buy Cool Whip in the tub only.
That looks suspiciously like the ISI we own. Hmmm, I’ll make sure I tell Hubby to be really careful when he makes whipped cream in it.
Check out Randy here with the civil war wound from the valve of a CO2/PCP conversion. (At 4:15, GRAPHIC)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a1hrms0i2LU
He had that thing pulled out under a local and had the doc bring a mirror in so he could watch!
I’ll be shooting against him on their home turf at OR state championship :-)
What a lovely young woman she was. This sucks.
Just... wow. RIP.
Yikes! Now I know what coulda happened!
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