Don't forget disfiguring Michael Jackson in a pyrotechnic accident while filming a commercial, leading directly to his drug issues and two decades of publically-acceptable body-shaming about his nose and other issues: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/pepsi-nearly-kille...

"Jackson underwent a series of surgeries to fix his burns. The hair on his head reportedly never grew back, forcing him to wear a wig. The accident has been pinpointed as the start of a string of plastic surgeries that would come to define Jackson’s life and image, the medication he took to ease the pain becoming a life-long crutch."

That's really interesting. I had never heard of that before.

The fact that you’d never heard of that shows the power of good PR firms.

More likely it shows the fact that I was born in the late 1980s and Michael Jackson had fallen mostly out of favor by the time I had any wherewithal about pop stars.

That was a wild ride of reading,

>"They formed a consumer group, the 349 Alliance, which organized a boycott of Pepsi products, and held rallies outside the offices of PCPPI and the Philippine government. Most protests were peaceful, "

....

> "but three PCPPI employees were killed by a grenade thrown into a warehouse in Davao,[13] and a mother and child were killed in Manila on February 13, 1993, by a grenade thrown at a Pepsi truck."

What the hell

The Philippines is a former US colony and inherited many things from them, including liberal gun laws.

I am sure this could happen in today's USA, a first world country that has grocery shops with hand grenade gift department.

It's illegal to possess a hand grenade in the USA. [source]https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-def...

The linked source is incorrect in its conclusion (note that it cites 26 U.S.C. § 5801 which is irrelevant to its point). Hand grenades are indeed destructive devices regulated under the National Firearms Act, but they can be possessed legally. One must pay the ATF a $200 registration tax in order to purchase or build a destructive device. Note that a few states (e.g. New Jersey) prohibit the possession of destructive devices, but it is possible for civilians who are not police officers to possess them legally in the USA at large.

This [1] is the form that is completed to pay the $200 transfer tax when purchasing an NFA item. Note that this is the same form used to transfer machine guns (which are also legal for civilians who are not police officers to possess).

[1] https://www.atf.gov/file/61546/download

It was a sarcastic comment.

It was hyperbole. A point, based on or illustrated by a falsehood, is no point.

Recent HN submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23488462