An Indonesian man was riding his motorcycle and smoking a cigarette when he had to pull over, because the cigarette he had been smoking had exploded, destroying six of his teeth.
“It’s funny when it happens to Elmer Fudd, but less so when it happens to me while I am riding my motorcycle,” I would have said, were I this man. But were I this man, I would also have said it in Indonesian, and been Indonesian, therefore I would not know who Elmer Fudd was, yet I still would have referenced Fudd, causing a rift in the nature of reality that only Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neil working together could mend.
The man received full medical coverage for the incident, and $535. Which is just enough for the man to purchase a Playstation 3 and three games. $535 is also slightly less than one hundred dollars per exploded tooth, which means that according to the settlement each of his teeth were about equal in worth to a pair of Reeboks, a night out at Red Lobster with three friends, or a copy of Amazing Spiderman #105.
To be fair though, in Indonesia $535 will get you an eight-bedroom house, an all-gold autographed statue of Kobe Bryant, and an Eastern European slave.
According to the BBC, after having several of his teeth shatter in a cigarette related explosion, “Mr Susanto said he would try to give up smoking now anyway,” causing Nicorette board members to say, “Hey, maybe that’s a great idea for a new….no. No. That’s not a great idea.”
