Whenever I hear about the sauna, all I can think of is how relaxed and rejuvenated I would feel post the session. My eyes gradually close just thinking of a relaxing sauna and spa day. But for these people, their stress-management sauna session actually turned into a nightmare.
It all happened when a Reddit user wasn’t sweating enough in his gym’s sauna room that was almost full, with about five more people in it. So, he thought it would be a good idea to pour some water on rocks above the heating system to increase the temperature. He went ahead and asked others inside the room if they were okay if he made it a bit hotter by splashing some water on the rocks, and everyone said yes. So far so good, right?
But the problem happened when he poured a bucket of chlorine water from the nearby swimming pool, reported Mirror Online. The man on his Reddit post divulged, “I took the little wooden water container that every sauna has, left the room, and went the pool that’s located just outside the sauna. I filled up the bucket, came back into the sauna and proceeded to splash a lot of water on the rocks. The room got much hotter right away.”
However, he along with the other people inside started feeling uneasy. “For some reason, my eyes started burning and my lungs felt like they were on fire. Everyone in the room started wheezing and coughing. We all rushed to get out of the sauna (the door is pretty small) and it was complete chaos. Everyone in the pool area was extremely confused as to why we all came flying out of the sauna. We were wheezing and coughing and dry heaving.”
But he was quick to realise what he had done. “I tried to figure out what was going on and I realized that the pool water is full of chlorine. When I poured it on the rocks, the steam it created must’ve Irritated our eyes and lungs.” When he came back home and Googled about the repercussion of his act, he realized that what he did was ‘gas everyone in the sauna with chlorine gas.’ And FYI, that was used in World War 1 as a chemical weapon. So, incidentally, he created a hazardous chemical weapon.
So obviously, people criticised him for his ‘stupid’ act:
However, some pointed out that he might not have actually created chlorine gas.
Well, this isn’t the stupidest thing that someone did. Earlier, people were seen dancing in front of running vehicles in stupid ‘nillu nillu’ challenge. So, all I have to say is, do your research, guys and stay safe!