Teenage boy seriously injured after imitating movie (yet another 'Jackass' stunt gone wrong)

Minneapolis Star-Tribune ^ | 4.18.03

[af_vet_rr]

Maybe you're all 45 years old but as I have aged and have an 11 year old,

Maybe we are A******s for laughing at it, but then again most of us taught our kids about the dangers of fire at an early age and not to do such idiotic things.

14 years old is not the age for somebody to be learning that fire can be dangerous.

[Darksheare]

Ah yes, the "Speak up. I'm artillery! What are you shouting for, I'm not deaf!" joke.
We always used that on our Smoke when he came over to our gun crew, just to rag on him a bit. (He was a cool NCO.)

I do miss it, though.
I swear, the propellant smoke is addictive.
I can recall the smell to memory at will, and it brings back rather strange but pleasant memories of actually doing SOMETHING rather than sitting back at 'home station' PMCS'ing vehicles non-stop.
One could ALWAYS tell the netural born artillery types the second the howitzer went off.
They were the ones that closed their eyes and inhaled when the smoke came back, or thumped their chests shouted and howled wildly. Then they'd fire a toilet paper round. (The 105mm round has a nice space behind the round that'll fit a slightly used roll of TP while firing charge 6 or 5. Not easily described except to say that the toilet paper's integritty doesn't stand up to the heat of the propellant, and the paper spray mess doesn't need to be cleaned up afterwards...)
The ones who weren't cut out for it tried to escape from the howitzer as quickly as they could.

[BSunday]

"The wage of stupidity is pain."

Sounds similar to one of my sayings - "The Stupid Shall Be Punished"

[the_devils_advocate_666]

I guess we now have an exception to the rule, "Ignorance is Bliss".

[verity]

I agree. He should not procreate.