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Mom of man who died in fireworks accident says rules too lax(Big Mother Govt.)
AP ^
| July 6, 2015
| Pat Whittle
Posted on 07/06/2015 5:50:28 PM PDT by RBStealth
The mother of a man who tried to launch a firework off the top of his head for July Fourth and was killed instantly said Monday she's advocating for stricter controls about who can use the explosives.
Devon Staples, 22, and his friends had been drinking and setting off fireworks Saturday night in a backyard in Staples' eastern Maine hometown, Calais, when the accident happened with a reloadable fireworks mortar tube, police have said.
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TOPICS: Education; Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: amshaed; darwinaward; she; sheshouldbe; sheshouldbeashamed
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To: RBStealth
I’m sorry mam but you son died because he was stupid.
To: max americana
I find her words explosive and incendiary.
Sounds like she has a short fuse.
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posted on
07/06/2015 7:56:35 PM PDT
by
QT3.14
To: RBStealth
It was genetic...
83
posted on
07/06/2015 8:03:44 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
To: RBStealth
The apple don’t fall far from the tree now did it
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posted on
07/06/2015 8:03:54 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: Lurker
It wasnt an accident. Devon looked all over, but he couldn't find any alligators in Maine.
So he settled...
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posted on
07/06/2015 8:06:31 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
B. He mustve been a member of Dumb Ass Club - because he never spoke of it, LOL! LOL! The first rule of Dumb Ass Club...
Young Devon couldn't find any alligatoes in Maine, so he had to settle...
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posted on
07/06/2015 8:09:31 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
To: bert
Devon was an accident just waiting to get drunk and/or stoned and foolishly kill him self He couldn't find an alligator...
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posted on
07/06/2015 8:13:02 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
To: fieldmarshaldj
I don’t know if I pinged you to any of my posts about it but it’s like the bombing of Dresden here every year. War vets must get flashbacks. Not just firecrackers, real fireworks, all over the place, all night. And it’s days later till the last punk kid uses up the last of his stash. Cops do nothing. I felt unsafe walking down the block.
Not surprised to hear your illegals are in on the fun, such irony.
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posted on
07/06/2015 8:25:38 PM PDT
by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
To: Reagan79
It’s like the two ‘tards who picked up a running lawnmower and tried to trim a hedge: there was nothing in the owner’s manual saying “Don’t use as a hedge trimmer. Or as a cat polisher.”
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posted on
07/06/2015 8:34:44 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; sickoflibs; BillyBoy
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posted on
07/06/2015 8:34:48 PM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
To: Crazieman
Democratic Rep. Michel Lajoie, a retired fire chief from Lewiston who has pushed to repeal Maine’s fireworks law in the past... They’re going to say, ‘Well, you can’t regulate stupidity’ ... and it’s true, you can’t. But the fact of the matter is you have to try something,” Lajoie said. “I’m not giving up.”
I’ll take “Cut their hands off” for $500. We have to try something. Don’t we? It’s for the chi’ren
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posted on
07/06/2015 8:45:16 PM PDT
by
logitech
(It is time.)
To: RBStealth
she's advocating for stricter controls about who can use the explosives...in the spirit of the age - it's never anyone's individual responsibility - someone else is always to blame - my son wasn't stupid and reckless - oh no - somebody didn't make the laws tough enough.....
To: Reagan79
Caution: Light head and run away!
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posted on
07/06/2015 8:59:54 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: DesertRhino
What exactly happened? His brother said that when he ran to his brother's aid "There was no Devon."
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posted on
07/06/2015 9:00:10 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: RBStealth
Good grief. Placing a mortar tube on the head without understanding the dynamics
of the thrust and explosion of the event, caused his death.
Nobody to blame accept your son, lady. As tragic as you feel, taking it out
on others isn't going to solve anything.
Btw, what was the cause of death, anybody? I can imagine a broken neck maybe
from the sudden thrust of the projectile trying to get 100ft into the air.
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posted on
07/06/2015 9:19:32 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
To: luvbach1
This might be a stooge death. My personal experience with drinking and dangerous stunts is that most young guys, if drunk enough, really believe that the stunts and sound effects the Three Stooges and their stunt doubles achieved are replicable, and w/o risk of serious injury or death.
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posted on
07/06/2015 9:54:10 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: JoeProBono
“No one is stupid like Gaton....”
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posted on
07/06/2015 9:57:07 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
07/06/2015 9:58:36 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Crazieman
Cant legislate against stupidity.But they try as long as they don't affect their biggest potential audience...
I'm waiting for them to demand that the word "lisp" be changed because of the "s"-problem that only exacerbates the shame that lispers of the world feel.
Maybe the "Mom" should ask someone if she feels like a failure for raising such an idiot of a son.
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posted on
07/07/2015 3:21:41 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: RBStealth
Sorry, lady.
Only the individual can protect himself from "Hold my beer ... watch this ..." levels of stupidity.
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posted on
07/07/2015 4:50:07 AM PDT
by
Amagi
(Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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