Environmentalists ... Irony on Line 1

[Steeltime]

Retired jockey, 60, died when she fell onto an eco-friendly metal drinking straw which impaled her eye in a freak accident, inquest hears.

Elena Struthers-Gardner, 60, suffered horrific brain injuries after the freak accident at her home in Broadstone in Poole, Dorset on November 22. She was carrying a mason jar glass with a screw-top lid when she collapsed, with the 10in stainless steel straw entering her left eye socket and piercing her brain.

Today a coroner said metal drinking straws should never be used with a lid that fixes them in place, and warned that 'great care should be taken' while using them. They have increasingly replaced plastic straws after BBC's Blue Planet drew attention to ocean pollution, with the UK alone throwing away 8.5 billion every year.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...d-fell-eco-friendly-metal-drinking-straw.html

How about some eco-friendly metal drinking straw control? If it saves just one life - and hey, seems it damn well would have here.

 

[Supersteeler]

Through the eye? Gah.....what a horrible way to go!

 

[Steeltime]

Through the eye? Gah.....what a horrible way to go!

Plastic straws don't kill; these eco-friendly metal straws are the assault weapon of drink aids.

 

[Confluence]

Plastic straws don't kill; these eco-friendly metal straws are the assault weapon of drink aids.

i lost all my eco-friendly metal straws in a boating accident

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[DBS1970]

You'll poke your eye out.

 

[IndySteel]

She'd still be alive if she wasn't an environmental whacko.

 

[SteelChip]

She'd still be alive if she wasn't an environmental whacko.

 

[Steeltime]

i lost all my eco-friendly metal straws in a boating accident

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That's awesome. First post today that cause to me LOL ...

 

[ZonaBurgh]

Why does everyone need a straw, are we all 5 years old? Never understood it.

 

[Steeltime]

Why does everyone need a straw, are we all 5 years old? Never understood it.

Drinks with a lot of ice benefit from straws. Otherwise, you try and sip the last 1/3 of the drink, and sploosh - here comes the ice, releasing the beverage like a failed dam.

 

[Booted]

Drinks with a lot of ice benefit from straws. Otherwise, you try and sip the last 1/3 of the drink, and sploosh - here comes the ice, releasing the beverage like a failed dam.

We need sippy cups.

 

[Supersteeler]

My wife refuses to drink anything with ice in it and not use a straw. Says she hates the ice touching her teeth. When we go into a restaurant and I get my drink the first thing I do is chuck out the straw. I love taking a nice cold drink and crunching up the ice along with it.

 

[Confluence]

My wife refuses to drink anything with ice in it and not use a straw. Says she hates the ice touching her teeth. When we go into a restaurant and I get my drink the first thing I do is chuck out the straw. I love taking a nice cold drink and crunching up the ice along with it.

That's a metaphor for something....

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[Steeltime]

My wife refuses to drink anything with ice in it and not use a straw. Says she hates the ice touching her teeth. When we go into a restaurant and I get my drink the first thing I do is chuck out the straw. I love taking a nice cold drink and crunching up the ice along with it.

Don't mind the ice gently rolling down, but it seems to always pile up at some point and them BLAM!! Here comes the ice flood.

 

[Supersteeler]

That's a metaphor for something....

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I'm only glad it doesn't carry over outside the restaurant.

 

[Steelr4evr]

We need common sense straw reform. It is a matter of fact a person died the other day from this deadly object.

 

[Steelworth]

Just go back to paper straws if this is such a damn catastrophe, using plastic straws.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

I thought of this immediately.

 

[Steelworth]

I thought of this immediately.

Oh man. Ron, they don't call you the undertaker for nothing. Lol, twisted SOB.

But really, what a terrible way to go.

 

[Stoney]

My wife refuses to drink anything with ice in it and not use a straw. Says she hates the ice touching her teeth. When we go into a restaurant and I get my drink the first thing I do is chuck out the straw. I love taking a nice cold drink and crunching up the ice along with it.

So you don't use the straw, but you throw it away anyway? Polluting the ocean for no good reason!

 

[Booted]

The Founders never could have imagined metal straws when they wrote the Constitution.

 

[Vincent]

The Founders never could have imagined metal straws when they wrote the Constitution.

They were called muskets. Ergo the 2nd Amendment.

 

[JMM]

Plastic is made from oil. Seems to me that it could be processed and burned to make electricity, heat boilers, etc.. Granted, the exhaust would need to be scrubbed significantly.