Tim, no problem. I didn’t want it to make it seem like I was encouraging those things. You would think that grilling would be reasonably safe and generally it is. But I supposed like anything, if you do stupid things, it makes it really unsafe. And then there are the things that we haven’t thought of, like the wire brushes and the problem, though slight, that they could cause.

Thanks for your comments!

Tim, good points. It seems pretty insane, what they are doing. And yet, I was trying to make the point that even though 99.9% of us would do stupid things like that, there is something that we ignore that can actually kill us–those metal bristles from the wire brushes that we use to clean our grills. We also need to be careful, even with something that would seem as benign as a grill cleaning brush.