It’s probably wise not to shoot cannons with this guy. Even a cannon this small is an issue if you don’t adhere to safety protocols. Posted on 09/06/2017 8:43:48 AM PDT by w1n1
It’s probably wise not to shoot cannons with this guy. Even a cannon this small is an issue if you don’t adhere to safety protocols.
Witness the worst cannon shooter ever, and be glad you were not nearby.
I guess this fellow forgot just how dangerous black powder really is.
Loading up a tiny cannon for backyard fun is a great way to spend the Labor day weekend. However, it is generally a good idea to keep open bottle of black powder a little farther away there, genius.
The cannon fires and a spark drops down the funnel, straight into the black powder can. The explosion rocks both the shooter and the camera man.
We cannot stress keeping safety in mind enough when shooting anything, even if it isn't a traditional gun. We hope no one was injured in this epic fail, but it certainly stands as a lesson to everyone. See the worse cannon shooter video here.
Plastic or glass shrapnel?
Geez!
Darwin at work?
Used to have a friend that got seriously burned when the ash from his cigarette fell into a dish of homemade gunpowder he made............................
Oops, not ‘gun powder’, FLASH powder..................
When I was a kid I used to prepare sugar - nitrate rocket propellant on my parents’ kitchen electric range. I was quite skilled at the process and never had an incident during the making of dozens of batches. One day my father came over to get a closer look at what I was doing. He had a cigarette in his mouth. First time ever I forcibly pushed him.
That said, I’m glad my son never had such interests.
I was in India a few years back, and I was shooting off some local fireworks.
There was a fountain that looked pretty cool. It had a bunch of Hindi writing on it, and a picture of the firework stuck into the neck of a bottle.
Being a clever fellow, I followed the directions and stuck the firework in the neck of a bottle and lit it off. It gave off a nice fountain for about 15 seconds, dropped into the bottle, and exploded, shredding my pants and embedding glass in my legs and hand. I just had time to look away and raise my hand to protect my face when the firework dropped before the explosion.
Needless to say, I was sore vexed. After picking the broken glass out of my flesh and cleaning up the blood, I showed the firework to the cook, who was standing nearby, but not too near. He translated the words above the picture...
“DO NOT DO THIS”...
Moral of the Story: Ignorance and explosives are a poor combination!
It’s amazing we are still alive, considering the things we did as children and young adults.
Not like these snowflake generation Z....................
Honey (I) Roasted (my) Nuts.
ROFL!
This . . .
is a cannon.
Both are going to leaves marks. Ouch.
My guess—this was done with Pyrodex, a “safer” form of black powder that is itself a true explosive.
It took a full second for the jar to blow. Had it been ‘black’—more like a millisecond.
The only error here is the failure to secure the powder container before firing—BUT WITH EXPLOSIVES OF ANY KIND, THAT IS ALL IT TAKES.
In the mid-1960s, my older brother made a black powder ‘firecracker’. He lit the fuse, put it in a neighbor’s mailbox and told me to shut and hold the lid.
He caught hell for blowing up the mailbox and had to replace it. Somehow, I didn’t catch any shrapnel, but the explosion sure didn’t help my hearing many years later.
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