Can't they make fireworks any safer??

[stevej37]

Maybe label them saying "Do Not Light While On Your Head"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-dies-placing-lit-firework-174721758.html?guccounter=1

[GH85Carrera]

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

[masraum]

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.

[stevej37]

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

[A930Rocket]

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

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

[syncroid]

Hold my beer. Watch this!

[stevej37]

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

[Ayles]

The good old days

[Scott Douglas]

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

[KFC911]

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....

[stevej37]

That first pic is of 'Roman Candles'??

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

[pmax]

Originally Posted by stevej37

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"Do Not Light While On Your Head"

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[p911dad]

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..

[porsche930dude]

Originally Posted by Ayles

The good old days

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.

[KFC911]

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

[p911dad]

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.

[p911dad]

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.

[stevej37]

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.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by KC911

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

Yep

[Por_sha911]

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