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New Weapon Against Champagne Blindness


Dramatic statistics reveal that champagne is a dangerous weapon.

Each year, 3,000 people in France are the victim of passive popping: injuries caused by champagne corks travelling at the speed of 13 meters per second. Opticians report multiple eye injuries, and some people have even become blind after a cork blew their eye out.

But fear no more and drink no less. A French inventor has developed the world’s first stop-bouchon. One part is screwed into the cork, the other attached to the bottle neck — and everybody is safe, because the cork can’t go anywhere.

In ten years from now there will be a stop-bouchon in every house“, he claims.

Via Rue89 (in French)