man dies launching firework off head

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       http://www.cnet.com/au/news/man-dies-after-shooting-off-firework-from-top-of-his-head/

how long before some do-gooder is calling for restrictions on fireworks over there      

      we haven't had them since the mid 80's  because "people " were hurting themselves 

[RallyeMike]

how long before some do-gooder is calling for restrictions on fireworks over there   scratchchin   

The gene pool got gets stronger every 4th.

The thing about the States is that State by State, County by County, City by City, they all have their own jurisdiction and rules on this. The Feds have not generally banned fireworks (yet)- just placed limitations on how powerful they can be. In fact, they are legal in my town, but illegal in every bordering town. So every year, everyone comes here and its like living in Beirut for a day. I could go through 50 rounds from my 12 ga and nobody would know the difference. 

And then you have the Indian reservations, where they sell you the good stuff that is not supposed to be taken off the reservation (but everyone does). And if you really want to take your life in your hands, they will sell you the totally insane stuff from under the counter. Just flash some cash and ask for the "good stuff".

[Mike DC]

   
Don't worry too much.  No specific lobbying group wants a firework ban.  Nobody stands to get richer from it.  It would take actual public pressure to make it happen.

 

[myk]

Natural selection at work...

[Mopar Nut]

The New York Giants are withdrawing their $60 million long-term contract offer to Jason Pierre-Paul following the star pass rusher's fireworks incident over the weekend.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000500185/article/new-york-giants-pull-60m-offer-to-jason-pierrepaul

[Bandit72]

Natural selection at it's finest 

[68X426]

   
how long before some do-gooder is calling for restrictions on fireworks over there    

Today the dead guy's mom is blaming the State of Maine for not training her son about how to use fireworks.  She's demanding the state provide programs.

There are several politicians calling for a ban.

Maybe a simple sign would have helped.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

This guy is as stupid as firecracker head............

http://www.mandatory.com/2015/07/06/guy-yells-f-k-that-alligator-immediately-gets-eaten-by-allig/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00002185

[Mopar Nut]

Should we ban alligators and fireworks, they kill more people than flags.

[skip68]

The problem with the alligator was it was from the south so naturally it's racist and probably likes the confederate flag.   

[el dub]

Your supposed to shoot them out of your @zz, not your head.

[69wannabe]

The problem with the alligator was it was from the south so naturally it's racist and probably likes the confederate flag.   

Skippy you are my hero!!!!!!   

[tan top]

Natural selection at it's finest 

[RallyeMike]

Today the dead guy's mom is blaming the State of Maine for not training her son about how to use fireworks.  She's demanding the state provide programs.

Well, now we know which side of the family mortar head got his brains from.

[Mike DC]

 
Can I get congress banned if I make a complaint that my kid got hurt by voting stupidly?  

[wingcar]

Got to love the advice...

Let this be a lesson to everyone out there: if a sign tells you not to do something, it is usually for your safety, so it's best to listen to that sign that someone went out of their way to hang.

[Lord Warlock]

From what I understand he shot a mortar shell off.  That is the epitome of stupid.  When those go off the charge is strong enough to feel it from 3 or 4 feet away, putting on your head is insane, and the idiot got what he needed.  When I lived up North in New England they were illegal, in Virginia they were illegal, and here in florida they are illegal unless you are outside the city limits...and you sign a form/waiver before buying them, but everyone shoots them off inside the city limits which extends as much as 50 miles outside of the actual city center. (we are largest city in US).  It sounds like a war zone every 4th of July and January 1st. 
The city's main concern is fires being started by people shooting off fireworks, the only time they clamp down on shooting them off is when we are in a dry spell and at the highest fire danger.  I'm not worried about a ban.

I also shoot many mortar shells off when I do shoot fireworks, they are the loudest and largest and give the most satisfaction with an air burst.  Also can scare the living crap out of you if the tube falls over before launching the shell...had that happen a couple times.

[Mike DC]

yeah that's what I read too.  Mortar shell off his head.  You have to be pretty dense to try that.  Or else maybe he had no idea what that a mortar shell does (and therefore was stupid anyway).  I wonder if he was mentally impaired or something. 

[TeeWJay426]

Rumor has it there were large quantities of alcohol involved...... famous last words: "Hang on to my beer, I'm gonna try sumthin'....."

[Bandit72]

From what I understand he shot a mortar shell off.  That is the epitome of stupid.  When those go off the charge is strong enough to feel it from 3 or 4 feet away, putting on your head is insane, and the idiot got what he needed.  When I lived up North in New England they were illegal, in Virginia they were illegal, and here in florida they are illegal unless you are outside the city limits...and you sign a form/waiver before buying them, but everyone shoots them off inside the city limits which extends as much as 50 miles outside of the actual city center. (we are largest city in US).  It sounds like a war zone every 4th of July and January 1st. 
The city's main concern is fires being started by people shooting off fireworks, the only time they clamp down on shooting them off is when we are in a dry spell and at the highest fire danger.  I'm not worried about a ban.

I also shoot many mortar shells off when I do shoot fireworks, they are the loudest and largest and give the most satisfaction with an air burst.  Also can scare the living crap out of you if the tube falls over before launching the shell...had that happen a couple times.

My favorite thing to do is take the big thick solid pvc tube and on your very last shell, flip it upside down and run like hell! That PVC pipe with blow the bottom out of it and give you a really satisfying BOOM!

Sorry just had to add that, back to talking about how dangerous fireworks are 

[Lord Warlock]

When I was a teenager in northern VA in the 70s, I got an old anti aircraft shell casing (brass) it was about 4 inches long and had no bullet tip on it, and I found it fun to light a firecracker and drop it inside and hold it in my hand to go off.  The shell protected the hand and it made the report a lot louder than the normal black cat firecracker was.  I've had real cherry bombs and M80's from the old days and you definitely don't want either of those to go off within a foot of you.  Set a cherry bomb in a cinderblock with a brick blocking one side of the 2 holes in the center, it broke the cinderblock in half.  They'd also make short work of a mailbox.

As most kids that have messed around with fireworks can admit, almost every one of them has had a firecracker go off in their hand, and you learn the satisfaction of throwing a little explosive goes flat when your whole hand hurts after it goes off before you let go.  I've had them go off near my ear when throwing, as well as just at point of release.  Always hurts, and after maturing a few years learned its just as fun to set on ground and back away.  I always try to get at least six feet away when a mortar shell is lit, I've had several not launch but still blow up at ground level which could have been serious but survived it.  

Saw that happen with a neighbor this year, the launch fizzled and it blew up in the tube at ground level, they were lucky no kids were within 10 feet at the time.  

Several friends in my youth used to make their own with black powder, one used to fill m16 shells with powder and set them off, that was dangerous because the shell itself would blow apart shooting shrapnel in all directions, I only stayed around for two of those, after that I avoided him when he played with those. Other friends in high school would make home made bombs and set them off in the woods by their house.  Usually using pvc or lead pipe.  Can't do that anymore without arousing suspicion of law enforcement and federal agencies.  I enjoyed my childhood, kids today are too sensitive. 

[Mike DC]

IMO that's part of the problem.  

People today are raised so isolated from danger . . .  it's like they don't expect it to be possible to encounter any danger.  
It's like that dead guy assumed any firework he could get his hands on in the USA would surely not be very powerful.



The real issue is that you can't fix stupid.  Banning all threats to stupidity is not reasonable.  

[Bandit72]

When I was a teenager in northern VA in the 70s, I got an old anti aircraft shell casing (brass) it was about 4 inches long and had no bullet tip on it, and I found it fun to light a firecracker and drop it inside and hold it in my hand to go off.  The shell protected the hand and it made the report a lot louder than the normal black cat firecracker was.  I've had real cherry bombs and M80's from the old days and you definitely don't want either of those to go off within a foot of you.  Set a cherry bomb in a cinderblock with a brick blocking one side of the 2 holes in the center, it broke the cinderblock in half.  They'd also make short work of a mailbox.

As most kids that have messed around with fireworks can admit, almost every one of them has had a firecracker go off in their hand, and you learn the satisfaction of throwing a little explosive goes flat when your whole hand hurts after it goes off before you let go.  I've had them go off near my ear when throwing, as well as just at point of release.  Always hurts, and after maturing a few years learned its just as fun to set on ground and back away.  I always try to get at least six feet away when a mortar shell is lit, I've had several not launch but still blow up at ground level which could have been serious but survived it.  

Saw that happen with a neighbor this year, the launch fizzled and it blew up in the tube at ground level, they were lucky no kids were within 10 feet at the time.  

Several friends in my youth used to make their own with black powder, one used to fill m16 shells with powder and set them off, that was dangerous because the shell itself would blow apart shooting shrapnel in all directions, I only stayed around for two of those, after that I avoided him when he played with those. Other friends in high school would make home made bombs and set them off in the woods by their house.  Usually using pvc or lead pipe.  Can't do that anymore without arousing suspicion of law enforcement and federal agencies.  I enjoyed my childhood, kids today are too sensitive. 

Of course we can't forget good ol' sparkler bombs! Made many of them in my day, with about a 75 percent success rate. The other 25% generally just make a giant flare. It's getting hard to get your hand on the old fashioned "steel" sparklers now though, probably for that reason I suppose.

[Lord Warlock]

I've also had a pack of matches catch fire while lighting a firecracker (before disposable lighters for me) and the pack fell directly into an open bag of unwrapped and loose black cat firecrackers, probably around 500 of them went off at my feet, it turned into a cloud surrounding me about 4 feet x 4 feet that I couldn't escape, just hopped around saying oooo aaaahhh ooooo ahhhh like an old indian dance on black and white tv.    Boys learn lessons by suffering bouts of stupidity.  Something that has stuck with me for 50 years now is a line from a children's book:

"This is something you should not do, let this be a lesson to you"  a book my dad actually regularly read to me as a child.  (Berenstein Bears)

Every time I survive a similar bout of stupidity, I find myself saying that line to myself.