El Reg reports
A forensics report has reported the first known death from the use of electronic cigarettes after a Florida man was killed when his device exploded and drove itself into his cranium.
Tallmadge D'Elia was vaping at home on May 5 when the vaping device, manufactured by Philippines-based Smok-E Mountain, exploded. An investigation by the Pinellas-Pasco medical examiner's office found the explosion fired two pieces of the vaping device into his head, causing death by "projectile wound of head".
D'Elia also suffered burns to 80 per cent of his body, the ABC News reports,[1] after the explosion caused a fire in his house. Firefighters found his lifeless body when they broke in to tackle the blaze.
A representative from Smok-E Mountain said that the problem was most likely a battery issue, or a problem with the atomizer D'Elia had in his mouth. It said the company had had problems with people cloning their devices and using bad batteries.
While D'Elia's death is a first, injuries from electronic cigarettes are surprisingly common. A report last year by the US Federal Emergency Management Agency found that between January 2009 and December 31, 2016 there were 195 incidents where vape pens overheated or exploded, leading to 133 acute injuries to users, 38 or which were described as "severe".
[1] Astounding use of whitespace in the page's source code.
Additional local coverage from Tampa Bay Times:
Autopsy: Vape pen explosion fatally wounded St. Petersburg man and St. Pete man is first U.S. vaping death. Are e-cigarettes safe?.
(Score: 5, Informative) by meustrus on Thursday May 17 2018, @05:58PM (3 children)
That note provided some amusement. 269 empty newlines before the <html> tag. ~550 empty newlines in the middle of the file for some reason.
But at least if you remove or ignore the gratuitous empty newlines, most of the HTML is properly indented.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Booga1 on Thursday May 17 2018, @06:41PM (2 children)
The "article" itself is about 3000 characters on three lines, html markup included.
The whole page source is 112,113 characters on 8557 lines. Two characters counted for each CRLF... The thing is just over 15% newlines. Yeesh!
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday May 17 2018, @09:30PM (1 child)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Thursday May 17 2018, @09:54PM
I've come to the conclusion that it is painful, but that the ailed develop a tolerance over time, finally resulting in a blissful ignorance of the condition. Dunning-Kruger study findings support this theory.
"Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"