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Can't they make fireworks any safer??

They are explosives! Like putting warning on cigarettes, idiots ignore the warnings.

People are stupid. Married, hopefully, he's just leaving a wife behind and no kids. Hopefully, no kids saw the incident, but that seems unlikely. I'm thinking that alcohol was involved, but still.

"the victim’s wife told deputies she believed he placed the firework on his head to “show off” at the block party. Family members tried to get him to stop, but the firework went off, and McGrew collapsed."

Unfortunate.

I guess Darwin got another one.

Might be a market for old war helmets...just mount a bracket to hold the mortars. :D

“ Witnesses told deputies the injuries were from a fireworks accident.”

That was no accident. That was an intentional act of Darwinism in play.

Hold my beer. Watch this!

^^^ Yep..there had to be large amounts of beer involved.

The pure stupidity some people exhibit never ceases to amaze me.

I don't think drinking alcohol had anything to do with this.... because millions of folks did that yesterday....

Only one was that stoopid :(

Hard to fathom....

That first pic is of 'Roman Candles'??

Maybe he was Italian?
41 years old...should have been smarter.

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Originally Posted by stevej37 (Post 12278190)

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"Do Not Light While On Your Head" :D

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Clearly a case of a lack of the Federal Fireworks Control and Punishment Administration's warning placards being absent from the bomb he put on his head. Tsk tsk..

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Originally Posted by Ayles (Post 12278222)

The good old days

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1720214033.jpg

I had 2 or 3 of the bottom ones I got from a neighbors estate cleanout. The first one we lit obviously we were way too close and not holding our ears. Im guessing it was an M-80 ? It would blow a hand off no doubt. but we did another and were prepared for it that time. The third one is different and double the size but its still laying out there the fuse didnt burn good. I think we will have to throw it in the burning barrel to be safe.

The M-80s I remember were red .... lower right corner. Potent they were ...

My brother and I had the cherry bombs, (middle row left), got them in the gross (144) boxes on Pawleys Island, SC when there on vacation in the late 1950's, early 1960's with our parents.
Those little "bombs" were really something, had a short green fuse that gave maybe 3 seconds and you had better be rid of it instantly! If you tied a pebble to it (the fuse also burned underwater) they worked underwater for even more adolescent excitement.

I remember we took an M-80 and stuck it in a crack in my fathers wood shed.
It blew a fist size hole in the wood wall...we lied our way out of that one.:)

Not shown in the pic...but I remember the smoke bombs that were connected in line with a cars coil wire. Those were fun.:D

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Originally Posted by KC911 (Post 12278269)

The M-80s I remember were red .... lower right corner. Potent they were ...

Yep

Three guys needed:

one to light the cherry bomb
one to hold and drop the lit cherry bomb into the toilet
one to flush the toilet in the boys bathroom at school
all three run out before porcelain shrapnel went everywhere

Somehow, we made it through our teenage years alive and with all body parts in tact

This reminds me of a story of my uncles, who, living in hampton roads, Virginia, at the end of WWII found a dummy warhead bomb washed up on the beach.

Perhaps it was Buckroe beach.

Who knows, what matters, is, they did the right thing.

They lugged it into their high school and placed it in the PE teacher's locker.

Evidently the PE coach was a bit of a hard arse, until he discovered a bomb in his locker, at which point he caved.

Actually, he freaked out.

The school was evacuated. The bomb squad pulled the dummy bomb out to a field, and blew it up, only to find it was filled with sand.

My Uncles were expelled.

They also managed to blow up a toilet with fireworks at the same school, where they were expelled again.

Perhaps the toilet bomb was first. I don't know. My uncles were hellions.

Expelled twice? I will contact the living uncle for clarification :D

My heart swells with pride being related to such hooligans. :)

Natural selection at work.

Darwin is a *****

rhymes with "itch"

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^^^

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I was going to post some of the "post" photos from this sort of stupidity. But I couldn't find any that weren't so gory that Paul would let them stay.

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img...=1572961970559

If you're curious, just do a google image search for "fireworks ass burn"

fireworks don't kill people

Saw a post on FB yesterday with a couple stills of the guy and a 30 second video with him in like a Halloween type Uncle Sam outfit. The actual incident was not shown, but it did show him dancing with a bunch of smoke emitting safe & sane type fireworks around him. you could tell he was a guy who loved him some attention with people laughing at him in the background of the video.

then? then, boom went the dynamite.

just click watch on youtube
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The problem with men doing stupid, drunken, drugged up behaviors is that you usually get away with it 95% of the time, and you are just the class clown. But then there's that other 5% of the time where it's not going to end well..

The firework on the head trick had been tried several years ago with essentially the same result.

I had said to a friend on July 3rd "I wonder who's going to win the Darwin award this year?" And then on July 5th we found out.