r/offbeat • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • 3d ago

Student 'traumatised' after managing to break her jaw with aptly-named candy

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/student-traumatised-after-managing-to-break-her-jaw-with-aptly-named-candy/ar-AA1wrmpx
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u/midlanecannon 3d ago

Damn having your jaw literally broken by this is terrifying. She had to get her mouth wired shut for 6 weeks. And now she has to wear braces.

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u/McCale 3d ago

Wired shut? Just have her bite down on a Jolly Rancher, that'll keep her jaw secured.

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u/joojie 2d ago

Am I the only one that low-key likes the sensation of that? Can't really explain it.

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u/NickyDeeM 3d ago

Can you sue for 'leading advertising'?

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u/dinosaurbong 2d ago

Possibly for no warning.

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u/DrakkoZW 2d ago

The name is the warning.

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u/dinosaurbong 2d ago

You’d think that right, but people are stupid.

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u/DeadLettersSociety 3d ago

Wow. Just wow. That would freak me out.

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u/ClinkyDink 2d ago

Now I need to go rewatch the 1999 camp classic “Jawbreaker” for the millionth time.

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u/FoxyInTheSnow 2d ago

In Britain they were (are? I left years ago) called “Gobstoppers”, which correctly asserts that they are a very serious choking hazard.

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u/Mitaylor2024 2d ago

Jawbreaker 🤦🏻‍♀️😂😪

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u/Dragonfly_Peace 3d ago

That’s not trauma

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u/Own_Development2935 3d ago

Shockingly, an injury is trauma.

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u/prosperos-mistress 3d ago

Needing your jaw wired shut for a month and a half after a painful injury seems traumatizing to me. Trauma is a spectrum. Not everything is war trauma or CSA.

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u/best_of_badgers 2d ago

It’s the original trauma! That’s why there are medical facilities called trauma centers.

Mental or spiritual trauma is nothing but an analogy to the physical type.