For the third time in the span of a few months, another person has reported that they were badly injured by flying glass as the result of a bottle of Corona beer exploding in their vicinity.
This time, the apparent victim was a 75-year-old retired California lawyer named John Jay Curtis, who says a Corona bottle exploded while he was carrying a 24-bottle case of the beer into his home. He was simply walking along when “there was an explosion like someone shot off a grenade.”
“All of a sudden, I’m in abject pain and thrown back on the ground. My right leg is all cut and bleeding profusely,” Curtis said to the NY Post. “I passed out and lost consciousness for maybe 20 seconds and just bled everywhere, and then I come to, and I scream for my partner to come out and help me, and he did, and he started picking out the glass. It took us 20 minutes to stop the bleeding and get the glass out.”
The injury eventually landed Curtis as the doctor’s office, where physicians plucked out lingering bits of glass from the man, who says Corona might as well be selling “glass hand grenades.” It was at the doctor’s office that Curtis learned about several other recent incidents that reportedly also involved exploding Corona bottles, including two men who both say they were partially blinded in separate incidents by glass that shot into their eyes.