Maximum PSA: Don't Inhale Computer Cleaners
Add this to the list of public service announcements we never though we'd need, but apparently do. Just so we're clear, you should never inhale canned air, that stuff that's intended to blast away debris from your keyboard, fan grills, and other nooks and crannies in and around your PC.
Are we straight on that? Let's take it a step further. Let's say you do decide to give a gaseous can a whiff (don't) -- at the very least, don't do it while driving. Geoffrey Hathaway did, and he ended up crashing into a fast food restaurant, hurting himself, two adults, and a 3-year-old in the process.
"When the officers got here, [the driver] was still sucking and breathing in and out of the cans, which is a computer duster cleaner," said Los Angeles Police Captain Ivan Minsal. "Be he was inhaling it, so he is being arrested for DUI. He is in stable condition."
Everyone else suffered minor injuries.

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vinnymail
January 06, 2011 at 6:58am
never thought id post this,
A friend of mine was driving down the road doing the exact same thing. He ended up blacking out and crashing him and his passenger into a tree. the tree happened to be in front of a hospital. An ambulance pulled out front picked him and and took hime to ER, it was 300 or 400 feet. he was charged full price for the ride. i dont know what he was ever charged with but a couple years later the same guy was carjacked while driving somebody home. I never said he was a smart friend
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JDorfler
January 06, 2011 at 2:53am
A lot of soldiers are doing this here in Afghanistan. It's so bad that on some posts only certain personel are allowed to buy and sign for canned air. In fact, some PXes you are only allowed to buy one can at a time.
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Biceps
January 05, 2011 at 11:23am
How to fail life's IQ test in two easy steps... turn key and huff.
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Jeffredo
January 05, 2011 at 11:14am
They added a horrible smelling "bitterant" to canned air to keep idiot kids from huffing it. Its so disgusting now that I bought a small electric blower to clean my PC because the bitterant would never totally fade away. I don't know how people can stand to purposely inhale that crap now.
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Ledoubleu
January 05, 2011 at 9:34am
This exact thing just happened to my sister in Georgia. Her 4x4 parked in a Walmart parking lot and a young guy and his girfriend are huffing canned air while driving. Boy blacks out with foot on the gas and creams my sisters truck. They arrest him and send him to hospital for dui blood testing. In an eye for an eye world they would stick a can up his blow hole and pull the trigger.
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praetor_alpha
January 05, 2011 at 10:40am
In an eye for an eye world they would stick a can up his blow hole and pull the trigger.
... and a foot up their asses.
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