[Black Agnes]

Actually I know someone who DID lose an eye.

Playing fort with real firecrackers.

Guess how many little boys did this in our community after he lost his eye.

Sometimes your job in life is to serve as a warning to others. We got warned real good.

[bert]

one can never be so bad as to not be able to serve as a horrible example

[Fedupwithit]

[Personal Responsibility]

I am friends with someone who got his eye shot out with a bb gun. I still have scars in my shoulder and back from my idiot friends who broke the “3 pump” rule !

[stayathomemom]

My father-in-law was badly burned as a child playing with firecrackers. He did not know how his clothes caught on fire, but he ended up spending two years in bed recovering from his burns in an era before antibiotics. Nevertheless, he still allowed my husband to play with fireworks. Frankly, the mechanism behind all this fostered my husband's interest in Chemistry. He was the first student to place out of a full year of chemistry at the University of Mo - Rolla, graduated Summa cum laude, and went on to med school. He is a professor at a major teaching hospital and has gotten teacher of the year awards in his department several times.
This same brilliant son, however, played with firecrackers in his garage, and has been dealing with tinnitus ever since.
I think it was a very wise thing for my father-in-law to look beyond his tragedy and allow his son to explore the world.

[lonestar]

Once a firecracker that you’re trying to light with a sparkler goes off in your hand, you don’t do that again
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[Tammy8]

I also knew a man that lost one eye to a bb, so it did happen- though he was the only one I personally knew of.