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Man killed by beer keg explosion
Canoe ^
| October 23, 2006
Posted on 10/23/2006 11:11:14 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
NEW MILFORD, Conn. (AP) - Investigators were trying to determine who tossed a beer keg into a burning barrel at a party, causing a deadly explosion that sent metal shards slicing through a crowd of people, police said.
The explosion early Sunday killed Sean Caselli, 22, of New Milford. Seven other people were taken to hospitals with burns and shrapnel wounds, police said. Caselli was struck in the neck by a piece of flying metal.
Police Sgt. Lee Grabner said investigators interviewed witnesses Sunday to try to identify the person who threw a quarter-keg of beer into the flames, and to determine whether criminal charges should be filed.
Fires had been set in several barrels to keep people warm at the outdoor party in western Connecticut, said Police Captain Michael Mrazik.
"This is a certain tragedy," said Police Chief Colin McCormack. "However, nothing I have been apprised of to this point in this investigation, which I caution is at the very early states, indicates a deliberate act on anyone's part."
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: justdamn
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Hold muh... oh, never mind.
To: Squawk 8888
Loss of life AND loss of beer. Double tragedy.
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:12:32 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Good fences make good neighbors)
To: Squawk 8888
Blue State Alert!
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:12:45 AM PDT
by
avacado
To: Squawk 8888
A.P.B. on the looter guy?
To: Squawk 8888
Only by the grace of God did I survive such keg fueled nonsense back in the day.
To: Squawk 8888
It could happen.
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:13:53 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: Squawk 8888
Sean Caselli, this Bud's for you!
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:14:05 AM PDT
by
Darkwolf377
(Republican, atheist, pro-life)
To: Squawk 8888
We used to do this with empty hairspray cans with a volume of 16 oz. I can only imagine what an 11 gallon container would do, but it would be nasty.
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:14:14 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
To: Squawk 8888
That blowed up real good!
Remind me never to do that.
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:14:25 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(FOOTBALL REFEREES: It's tough playing with us, but you can't play the game without us.)
To: Squawk 8888
Let me see:
One drunk, stupid, publik skool ejewcated moe-ron who had a brain storm in the middle of beer bash.
Ya think?
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:14:49 AM PDT
by
Al Gator
(Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
To: Squawk 8888
WHAT A TRAGIC WASTE!! Of beer.
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:15:47 AM PDT
by
Hydroshock
( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
To: Squawk 8888
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:15:59 AM PDT
by
dc27
To: dirtboy
Loss of life AND loss of beer. Double tragedy. Hopefully it was Miller Beer...
13
posted on
10/23/2006 11:16:22 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
To: Squawk 8888
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:16:35 AM PDT
by
pissant
To: Squawk 8888
I know we should not make light of this, but all I could think of when I read the headline was "Sophomore Dies in Kiln Explosion" (Fawn Liebowitz).
To: Rb ver. 2.0
Only by the grace of God did I survive such keg fueled nonsense back in the day. "See this here shrapnel wound? Lemme tell ya a little story 'bout that. There ah wuz, a-belly crawlin' toward the keg, when alla sudden there wuz this big ol' splosion. My butt hurt like hell, lemme tell you. Well, I wuz eatin' the pickled eggs all day, so course the first thing I checked wuz muh pants, to see if somebody'd been followin' me around with a lighter...."
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:17:26 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Squawk 8888
bet they lost deposit too
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:17:51 AM PDT
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
We used to do this with empty hairspray cans with a volume of 16 oz. I can only imagine what an 11 gallon container would do, but it would be nasty. One of my wife's asthma inhalers once inadvertently wound up in the fireplace. It took off like a mortar. I thank God no one was in front of the fireplace when it punched a hole through the screen and smacked the opposite wall.
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:18:21 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(The California Republican Party needs Arnold the way a drowning man needs an anvil.)
To: dc27
That 1680 will get you, every time...
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posted on
10/23/2006 11:18:27 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
To: Squawk 8888
Live by the keg, die by the keg...
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