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Posted on 07/08/2019 6:09:07 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
PULASKI COUNTY, Ark. (KARK/CNN) - At least five people lost fingers the night of July 4 in what has been deemed a “fireworks war” in Arkansas, according to the sheriff’s office.
Authorities with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office say a group of people shot fireworks at each other, deputies and their patrol cars and even ambulances coming to aid the injured in a “fireworks war” on the Fourth of July.
"We've never experienced something to this scale,” said Lt. Cody Burk with the sheriff’s office.
At least five people suffered hand injuries, some of which were described as severe. Burk says commercial-grade fireworks were being shot at deputies while they were helping the injured.
"People were coming up to us with missing fingers and hands blown off. When we were trying to put tourniquets on someone that had missing fingers, they were throwing fireworks,” Burk said.
Two deputies suffered minor injuries from fireworks during the incident.
Ultimately, 12 people were arrested. They face varying charges, including fleeing, aggravated assault, drug possession and assault on a police officer.
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Beer and bottle rockets do no mix.
“Beer and bottle rockets do no mix.”
Where else does one get the bottle?
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If you have never been in a bottle rocket war then you did not experience a typical childhood and/or adolescence.
“If you have never been in a bottle rocket war then you did not experience a typical childhood and/or adolescence.”
Roman Candle Wars were the next logical step. Nothing says “fun” quite like a ball of flame coming right at your nether regions.
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Ya’ll must be up North where all fun has been outlawed. I just finished off our fireworks, including Black Jack bottle rocket and firecrackers and those are some of the milder things we get.
I think they finally did away with M80s though. Too many school toilets having to be replaced.
My neighbor shoots off something called Rocket Boys. It’s a bottle rocket type thing but way bigger. Sounds like a 50 cal round or 8ga shot going off. Sumbitch makes them last all year and shoots one off every other weekend or so. Makes us jump every time.
Those mortars are great. Closest thing to real fireworks you can get. I bought some green fuse and used a glue gun to tie a bunch together. Nailed everything down on a piece of plywood and floated it out onto a small lake to set it off. The whole thing lasted 5 minutes and was our big finish.
If ever an article title should have started with BOOM
What about a potato cannon - made with pvc pipe and hair spray. I think they are now outlawed.
“Stupid should hurt”
Back in the day, we used to use a 5 foot section of copper pipe to launch bottle rockets. Had 2 man “bazooka” teams with one loading/lighting and one aiming.
Also had giant sparklers that we shot with a bow.
Also had access to M-80s and cherry bombs. Those were the days!
...or WHAT/WHO you chased...
Sounds like mittens are in and gloves are out for quite a few revelers in Arkansas!
Yep the n word chaser. Can’t believe they sold those at every firework stand in the country. They didn’t chase anyone so it was a failed product based on description.
LOL.. we did that sparkler arrow thing too.
Nope, I live in Texas. What I forgot to add is that although no chillerns pop firecrackers during the day, they all bum money off of their parents to go down to the firework stands and buy about $200 worth of mortars to keep us up all night.
They outlawed them where I lived as a kid because one always ended up on someone’s wood shingle roof and caught it on fire.
Why is it the focus has always been on the date of the Declaration of Independence. Not when we were actually officially recognized as an independent nation ? A newly created country
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