Good or bad- The Ceiling Fan
The Ceiling fan is quite a nice invention as it can actually save you on your energy bills if you use it over air con..
The ceiling fan is used for many different things including the obvious keeping the room cool as well as suicide, a hat and the possible urban myth of beheadings..
The question is, how is the fan used as a hat?? I am actually talking about the fan coming loose and falling on somebodys head..
Suicide isn’t the obvious “jumping head first into the blade” it is actually sadly done in the form of hanging. Because the fan is quite high up it is often used as a hanging point..
A major misconception is that the fan can actually behead somebody, this simply is not true.. It has been show in many films which is why people may think it can happen.. The television programme Mythbusters proved that by using a replica dummy of the human head that the blade would certainly tear the throat open which of course would lead to death but the fan could not actually behead anyone, which asks the question, where does all of this stuff about fan heaters and ceiling fans originate from?
Most likely from a film director wanting to get a bit of a shock from an audience after all this is what they are paid to do. So although many people have suffered their demises from the ceiling fan over the years it is very unlikely that anyone has been properly beheaded.
On a lighter note the ceiling fan amongst other inventions that include home humidifiers and HEPA air purifier can actually be more useful to you than deadly.