Political correctness tragically catches up with one of their own

Use plastic straws, they're safer.   Then, when you are through using them, toss them on the lawn of the neighborhood environmental kook.  You might just save a life!

Elena Struthers-Gardner, 60, suffered horrific brain injuries in the freak accident. She was carrying a mason jar glass with a screw-top lid when she fell in her home. The 10inch stainless steel straw entered her left eye socket and pierced her brain. She was found lying on the kitchen floor in Poole, Dorset by civil partner Mandy

The inquest heard she had suffered with mobility difficulties following a horse riding accident when she was 21-years-old.

Following a reduction in her high levels of fentanyl pain medication, she had become alcohol dependent.

In the months leading up to her death, she had been drinking around half a litre of vodka a day, mixed with orange juice, from the mason jar cup, using the metal straws which were a birthday gift.

Due to severe pain from her riding accident, which caused multiple fracutres to Mrs Struthers-Gardner’s lumbar spine and caused scoliosis, she was prone to falling over, collapsing ‘like a sack of potatoes’ at random intervals, her wife added.

‘There was no alcohol present in the urine sample so intoxication did not contribute to the fall.’

He added: ‘Clearly great care should be taken taken when using these metal straws.

‘There is no give in them at all. If someone does fall on one and it’s pointed in the wrong direction, serious injury can occur.