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LurkinLion
Well-Known Member
Oh, that's gruesome. At least he died quickly.
When I think of the foolish things I did with fireworks when I was a kid, I can't help but feel for the people who die from stupid fireworks tricks.
Keepalowprofile
New member
Wow, His friends will no doubt remember this 4th for the rest of their lives.
This is insane. Had he ever used a mortar tube before?!
We had an incident last night, one fell over midway through a 6 burst display, and started shooting across the yard, the deck, into the pool... We scattered like roaches lol and everyone ran into the patio where we wouldn't get hit by all the sparks.
Afterwards it was hilarious... but for a few seconds there it was like a war zone (for a schmuck like me anyway). How could you just totally disrespect the power of these explosives?
We had an incident last night, one fell over midway through a 6 burst display, and started shooting across the yard, the deck, into the pool... We scattered like roaches lol and everyone ran into the patio where we wouldn't get hit by all the sparks.
Afterwards it was hilarious... but for a few seconds there it was like a war zone (for a schmuck like me anyway). How could you just totally disrespect the power of these explosives?
My friends had a gigantic fireworks display last night and for the most part it went off without a hitch, except for two incidents. A 15 year old boy burned all the hair off his face and arm, granted that wasn't much, and a woman wanted to hold one of those that shoots sparklers into the air, the little kids had been doing it, but for her, of course,the thing backfired and burned her arm from her elbow to shoulder, not hospital bad, but bad enough to hurt like hell and blister up. But other than that we had a ball!
LIke they always say, It's all fun and games till someone shoots their eye out! Or something like that.
LIke they always say, It's all fun and games till someone shoots their eye out! Or something like that.
Oberle
Trusted Member
Two strong possibilities: "A young man who was drinking and celebrating. . ."
It's the same profile that shows up most frequently in ERs with rattlesnake bites. :whistle:
amac
Trusted Member
Oh no, it's true, we are devolving. 
Considering the whole of our country sets aside one day a year to get drunk and blow shit up, I'm actually rather surprised there aren't more fatalities. Especially since a good portion of those people are more than a few sparklers short of a pack. In all seriousness though, I feel really bad for him and his poor family and friends. I guess at least he went out having fun. What a strange way to go though.
Ahhh, good old 'MERICA!
Considering the whole of our country sets aside one day a year to get drunk and blow shit up, I'm actually rather surprised there aren't more fatalities. Especially since a good portion of those people are more than a few sparklers short of a pack. In all seriousness though, I feel really bad for him and his poor family and friends. I guess at least he went out having fun. What a strange way to go though.
Ahhh, good old 'MERICA!
Krystal
Veteran Member
Dude, hold mah beer...
Krystal
Veteran Member
No, because I'd watch it with you.
When I read what his brother said about running over to him after the fireworks went off I laughed, at loud here at work. The guys are convinced I'm one sick puppy now after seeing me laugh at a guy getting blow apart by a firework.
Sucks nobody was likely sound minded enough to snap a picture or video, dammit.
Forensicwx
Final Roll Call 4153. STLCO 10-42 10/13 @ 1519
That's one lesson I tried to teach my son. If something doesn't go off, ffs, don't look in the barrel. I still haven't gotten over that young man (old enough to know better) who looked down the barrel of a potato shooter these kids were trying to shoot a frog out of and it hadn't gone off. He was blinded when it went off and that frog was pretty much embedded in his face.
Actually, he was Gaston at Disney World.
http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/di...ter-launching-firework-off-of-his-head-74051/
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Kittyskyfish
Trusted Member
No one's slick as Gaston,
No one's quick as Gaston,
No one turns his head into pink mist like Gaston!
For there's no man in town half as manly!
Perfect, a pure paragon!
You can ask any Tom, Dick or Stanley
And they'll tell you who's brains they prefer to SLIP on!
myra manes
Veteran Member
Definitely!!!
CLouise
Well-Known Member
The quote from his brother seems maybe Devon didn't actually intend to set it off, maybe that's just his wishful thinking its a pretty horrible accident to witness let alone your own brother
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/maine-man-dies-launching-firework-top-head
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DaemonSadi
popeonarope@godspeeps.org
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mom-man-died-fireworks-accident-says-rules-too-205543867.html
His family is FULL of denial. Instead of accepting her snowflake lit some fireworks on his head because he was a drunken idiot, his mom wants no blame the laws.
His family is FULL of denial. Instead of accepting her snowflake lit some fireworks on his head because he was a drunken idiot, his mom wants no blame the laws.
Krystal
Veteran Member
Good Lord. She wants training and licensing to use fireworks.
Maybe she should have taught her son the following tidbit: DON"T LIGHT FIREWORKS ON YOUR HEAD EVER!
Look I made up the #1 question on the licensing exam: Should you ever light a firework on your head? If you answer "Yes" not only can you not use fireworks, you also can't breed.
DaemonSadi
popeonarope@godspeeps.org
She is probably the reason he never picked up common sense.
Oberle
Trusted Member
Turns out shooting fireworks off your chest isn't such a great idea either. . .
Another Man Dies After Shooting Firework Off Body
http://www.newser.com/story/209502/another-man-dies-after-shooting-firework-off-body.html
Another man is dead after reportedly shooting a firework off his own body, this time in Texas. Postal worker Justin Bartek, 30, was setting off fireworks with friends along the Colorado River in Columbus early yesterday when he put a Medieval Knight, a large, tube-shaped firework, on his chest and set it off, witnesses tell ABC 13. He was rushed to Columbus Community Hospital with critical injuries and later died, reports KPRC. "He just had an infectious spirit, whenever you met him you met a friend," says a woman who set up a GoFundMe account to support Bartek's partner and 3-year-old son. "He was the light of many people's lives and the world to the people that knew him, and he would give the world to any that asked."
His death is just the latest involving fireworks in recent days: 22-year-old Devon Staples was killed instantly in Maine after shooting a firework off of his head on July 4. Fox 59 reports James Drake, 41, died in Marion, Indiana, on the same day of blunt force trauma to the face after he went to check on an unexploded shell. "I think he approached one and it went off and struck him in the face," a coroner says. A day later, 44-year-old Jose Magallanes was found dead in northern Indiana after suffering blunt force trauma to the head. His body showed explosion-related injuries from a fireworks accident, police say. The Consumer Product Safety Commission recorded nine fireworks-related deaths between June 20 and July 20 of last year and noted that among those injured, males age 25-44 made up the biggest group.
http://www.newser.com/story/209502/another-man-dies-after-shooting-firework-off-body.html
Another man is dead after reportedly shooting a firework off his own body, this time in Texas. Postal worker Justin Bartek, 30, was setting off fireworks with friends along the Colorado River in Columbus early yesterday when he put a Medieval Knight, a large, tube-shaped firework, on his chest and set it off, witnesses tell ABC 13. He was rushed to Columbus Community Hospital with critical injuries and later died, reports KPRC. "He just had an infectious spirit, whenever you met him you met a friend," says a woman who set up a GoFundMe account to support Bartek's partner and 3-year-old son. "He was the light of many people's lives and the world to the people that knew him, and he would give the world to any that asked."
His death is just the latest involving fireworks in recent days: 22-year-old Devon Staples was killed instantly in Maine after shooting a firework off of his head on July 4. Fox 59 reports James Drake, 41, died in Marion, Indiana, on the same day of blunt force trauma to the face after he went to check on an unexploded shell. "I think he approached one and it went off and struck him in the face," a coroner says. A day later, 44-year-old Jose Magallanes was found dead in northern Indiana after suffering blunt force trauma to the head. His body showed explosion-related injuries from a fireworks accident, police say. The Consumer Product Safety Commission recorded nine fireworks-related deaths between June 20 and July 20 of last year and noted that among those injured, males age 25-44 made up the biggest group.
lithiumgirl
Pretty Nice Troll
My older brother was teasing me once, shoved me off my bike, rode it down the driveway...gave it back to me after shoving cherry bombs in the handlebars...a little kid can't steer when there are explosives going off in the handlebars....nope! Fucking jerk!
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