The Toronto Sun reports that Firefighters in London, England say that the Fifty Shades of Grey book series may be responsible for a spike of people winding up in “handcuff mishaps.”
Here’s a quote from the article:
“In the past three years, firefighters have been called to help 79 people trapped in cuffs… in the past, crews helped free a man whose penis was caught in a toaster…“
3 Questions That Arise From This Story
1. Who taught that man how to make toast? We are certain the instruction manual of the toaster says not to put your finger in there. Do they really have to start specifying other body parts?
2. How did the fire department get stuck with the job of helping people remove their genitals from stupid places? (This applies more to the other stupid places we edited out, to satisfy your short attention span, as we’re hoping that the toaster incident didn’t also result in a fire.)
3. Since when is 79 people out of millions of people doing something over three years imply causation? That’s only 29 more people than number of shades of gray. If the fire department of a city is going to suggest a correlation between that book and handcuffing mishaps, we expect at least twenty handcuff incidents per shade of gray in the future!
