Like lawn dart , nano - magnets , and slap bracelets , fidget thread maker are only one stupid stunt by from becoming yet another leave fad . And as usual , instead of enjoy them responsibly , the internet is laborious at study seek to find way to make spinners as unsafe as playing with firecrackers . This is why we ca n’t have fun things .

It goes without saying , but we ’re going to say it at any rate : Please do n’t stress any of these experiments at home . There ’s enough people out there trying to wound themselves with fidget spinners .

Revving a restlessness thread maker up to thousands of RPMs while it ’s grasped firmly between someone ’s finger already seems unsafe enough . But sum up a brace of incredibly powerful magnet to the mix , and suddenly you ’ve got a linger fidget spinster that ’s a few rev forth from breaking free and flying across the room in lookup of a victim .

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In the wrong hands , any object can be potentially dangerous . Like the hand of Joerg Sprave , who ’s found a way toweaponize everything from Lego brick , toNerf darts , and now even fidget spinners with a usage slingshot chargeman that establish them with enough king to make you wish you were n’t in his crosshairs before he force the trigger .

Popcorn , a microwave ’s snug ally , can scantily survive spending a few minutes in your futurist oven . So what are the betting odds a fidgetiness spinner will survive ? Slim . This one was n’t completely destruct , but the bearings that actually make it spin , its solitary raison d’être , were totally atomise .

Using a steady blast of compressed tune , you may get a fidgetiness spinner up to over 10,000 revolutions per minute so that it sound like a jet engine quick to take off . But should you be holding it during a stunt like that ? Not if you like having five finger on each hand .

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

On multiple occasions Tony Hawk has bring his famous 900 put-on , which is a full two - and - a - half rotation in the aura after set up off the top of a half pipe . But there is minuscule fortune you could convince him to drop into a bowl on a deck with fidget spinners replacing its wheels .

Jumping onto gentle pillows is fun , alternate onto fidget spinner — made of hard plastic skirt a blade bearing — is not . Even adding a trampoline to the mix is n’t last to soften the landing place , but at least you ’ll have some amazing bruise the next first light .

The internet is chock full of terrible thought , and using a chainsaw to get a fidgetiness spinner spinning certainly rank among the bad . lose a finger is the least terrible affair that could result from an experiment like this .

William Duplessie

Waffle irons have bring nothing but joy and delectability to mankind . So away from the hazard of breathing in the toxic fume of melting cheap plastic restlessness thread maker , purposely destroying a waffle Fe in the process , for the sake of clickbait science , might be the bad part of this experiment .

Actually , this one is o.k. . By now every street corner computer memory , bodega , and gaseous state post in the body politic has a tabulator stock with fidget spinners . flatten out one to a pulp with a giant hydraulic press is a drop in the bucket , but an important first step towards couch an death to this annoying fad .

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