Man dies after being crushed by movie theater seat

A man in the United Kingdom died last week after a bizarre accident with a movie theater seat, with his heart stopping after he got his head stuck under the chair’s automatically closing footrest. According to The Guardian, 24-year-old Ateef Rafiq was looking under his chair at a Vue International theater in order to retrieve a dropped object, when the electronic footrest began closing on his head. Rafiq, who was only freed after bystanders managed to physically break off the footrest, suffered cardiac arrest; although emergency workers got his heart started again, he ultimately died a week later.

The Birmingham Safety Council has reportedly begun an investigation into the theater’s operation and maintenance routines, as one might hope.

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Worst luck ever!?

Yeah bizarre one this, seen the article on unilad on my Facebook feed.

Think he panicked once he realised he was stuck and ended up having a heart attack.

What a weird way to die

Ok, that's a Final Destination "what-are-the-odds" way to go...poor guy...

My goodness!!!

Jees! How unlucky, poor fella

Foot rest.... in peace?

May he rest in peace.

What an awful way to die, that sucks

From that brief description it doesn't appear as if he was the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Wow. What a way to go. =/

Did the seats have warnings? From the look of it he panicked when seat clamped on his noggin causing cardiac arrest.

If the staff there had guns this wouldn't have happened.

Poor guy

Let him rest in peace..

wonder how the rest of the story goes, like "oh, I think I lost my earring, sir, sir, can you check under your seat" then later on way home go "did you ever find your earring?" ... "yeah, it was in my ear"

just the thought of that makes me feel safer