The hot pepper linked to teen's death can cause arteries in the brain to spasm.

Harris Wolobah, a healthy 14-year-old from Worcester, Massachusetts, tragically died last Friday, hours after eating a single ultra-spicy tortilla chip seasoned with two of the hottest peppers in the world.

  • @[email protected]
    10•1 year ago

    You’re going to follow him around for the next nine years making sure he doesn’t do any daft teenage things?

    Good luck with that.

    • @[email protected]
      6•1 year ago

      That’s still not the company’s fault then. If they cut themselves handling knives, is it the knives manufacturers fault?

      • ggppjj
        1•1 year ago

        Is the knife marketed by the manufacturer as a challenge knife where the challenge is to do the finger stab trick?

        • @sygniusEnglish
          4•1 year ago

          According to the article, the packaging on the chip says that it’s for adults only, as well as other warnings like not for anyone with existing conditions, or pregnant. So the kid did take it outside of the warming parameter stated. So it’s not really the manufacturers fault.

          • JelloBrains
            2•1 year ago

            This. If any fault could be given I’d argue it’s on the retailers. The point of sale machines should have run an ID check on the chip, anything marked adults only should have the POS ask for an ID like alcohol, cigarettes, and cough syrup.