Guy puts "large firework" on top of his Uncle Sam hat and yeah.....
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Grand prize Darwin Award winner, posthumously.
Alcohol + sense of invincibility from being in a large festive crowd +
Pyrotechnics
Weapons
Power tools
Vehicles
Large hooved animals
Kitchens
Railroad tracks
Big holes in the ground
Swimming pools
Dams
Nests of bobcat cubs
= Potentially bad situations.
He probably balanced a single 200-500 gram mortar tube on that top hat and fired the round off from that position, and the recoil of the tube crushed the top of his skull in. A lot of people do not have any idea just how powerful these things are. Imagine the force needed to launch a golf ball to baseball sized object up to 200 feet in the air at 100 miles per hour. That is akin to a full powered throw from the most skilled and fastest MLB pitchers. All that from that small disk of FFg propellant at the bottom of the shell. These things have taken heads clean off of bodies when people looked into the tubes during a delayed ignition or a squib fuse and then the charge fired...
Pyrotechnics
Weapons
Power tools
Vehicles
Large hooved animals
Kitchens
Railroad tracks
Big holes in the ground
Swimming pools
Dams
Nests of bobcat cubs
= Potentially bad situations.
He probably balanced a single 200-500 gram mortar tube on that top hat and fired the round off from that position, and the recoil of the tube crushed the top of his skull in. A lot of people do not have any idea just how powerful these things are. Imagine the force needed to launch a golf ball to baseball sized object up to 200 feet in the air at 100 miles per hour. That is akin to a full powered throw from the most skilled and fastest MLB pitchers. All that from that small disk of FFg propellant at the bottom of the shell. These things have taken heads clean off of bodies when people looked into the tubes during a delayed ignition or a squib fuse and then the charge fired...
Very generous use of the word "accident" in that there title.
You noticed that too, eh?
Now his family will probably sue the fireworks manufacturer.
The 400lb wife a testament to bad judgment.
There was a local guy that took one to his chest. He is probably getting buried this week. Him and some friends were holding them in their hands and it didn't end well for him. Sucks for the family to have the 4th ruined for a long time.
www.foxcarolina.com
Man killed by fireworks that exploded near his chest, officials say
According to officials, the man was shooting fireworks with some friends by holding them in their hands.
www.foxcarolina.com
This dude in Chicago was holding a "foot long" mortar tube that failed to detonate, when it detonated in his hands. Neighbors found human remains on their property and Chicago FD had to hose down several nearby garages.
The incident happened after he had been drinking for several hours, according to a police report
Pretty much sums up a lot of these accidents.
Pretty much sums up a lot of these accidents.
Is there No Vid. ? anywhere floating on internet, of this non Floridian lighting fuse and parting his scalp .
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He had blue eyes! One blew one way, the other blew the other way
About 40 years ago I was t a 4th fireworks display on Kadena AB. Seddenly, there was an odd explosion,lots more smoke of the grounds and screams. Show was cancelled a few minutes later. One of the tubes fell or was knocked over and the firework caught a guy in the chest. Supposedly penetrated.
Sucks for the dude as it wasn't even his holiday.
Had a "neighbor" invite us over for a cookout and fireworks this year. Very nice of him. There were probably 10 families there.
At one point, some relative of his brought out about (50) roman candles and (50) M-80s (the kind that take fingers) out and dump them in front of the kids...which turned into a free-for-all with 7-8 kids lighting crap and throwing them. I quickly called my two girls back, and they were a bit disappointed...
...For about 60 seconds until one kid - probably 5-6 years old - dropped his lit roman candle, and then proceeded to pick it up backwards and promptly shot a fireball in a perfect angle that made it down the front of his swim trunks.
It turned into a bit of a circus for a few moments as his mom came over and tried to rip his shorts off as he was frantically doing the 'my balls are on fire' dance. I could see the black skin already as she carried his naked, smoldering butt off and into the house to try to administer some sort of first aid. He was literally bringing smoke with him, thats hiw bad the burn was to this poor kid.
^ In true fashion, they used a bunch of lidocaine patches and bandaged him up...and the kid made a reappearance about an hour and a half later. Poor kid needed to get to a hospital ASAP. I bet that burn was infected by Friday. Oh well...idiots are going to idiot.
Wish I had a video of it. Would have made a million views on YouTube. There was definitely an extra wiener that got cooked Thursday night.
At one point, some relative of his brought out about (50) roman candles and (50) M-80s (the kind that take fingers) out and dump them in front of the kids...which turned into a free-for-all with 7-8 kids lighting crap and throwing them. I quickly called my two girls back, and they were a bit disappointed...
...For about 60 seconds until one kid - probably 5-6 years old - dropped his lit roman candle, and then proceeded to pick it up backwards and promptly shot a fireball in a perfect angle that made it down the front of his swim trunks.
It turned into a bit of a circus for a few moments as his mom came over and tried to rip his shorts off as he was frantically doing the 'my balls are on fire' dance. I could see the black skin already as she carried his naked, smoldering butt off and into the house to try to administer some sort of first aid. He was literally bringing smoke with him, thats hiw bad the burn was to this poor kid.
^ In true fashion, they used a bunch of lidocaine patches and bandaged him up...and the kid made a reappearance about an hour and a half later. Poor kid needed to get to a hospital ASAP. I bet that burn was infected by Friday. Oh well...idiots are going to idiot.
Wish I had a video of it. Would have made a million views on YouTube. There was definitely an extra wiener that got cooked Thursday night.
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