1 posted on
07/07/2015 12:56:25 PM PDT by
Gamecock
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Haven’t seen the official explanation posted yet, just preliminary stories.
2 posted on
07/07/2015 12:57:05 PM PDT by
Gamecock
(Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
To: Gamecock
3 posted on
07/07/2015 12:57:13 PM PDT by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: Gamecock
This is the first story I have seen that actually explains what happened. He put the mortar upside down in the tube.
4 posted on
07/07/2015 12:57:44 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
("One man with a gun can control a hundred without one." -- Vladimir Lenin)
To: Gamecock
Had he yet reproduced or was this A Darwin test?
5 posted on
07/07/2015 12:58:04 PM PDT by
Yaelle
("You're gonna fly away, Glad you're going my way...")
To: Gamecock
Someone was left holding the beer, no doubt.
6 posted on
07/07/2015 12:58:33 PM PDT by
Rodamala
To: Gamecock
Hummmm
Yep, that explains a lot!
Next year, we'll have better warning labels for what it's worth.
7 posted on
07/07/2015 12:59:58 PM PDT by
TexasCajun
(Hillary: Ethically Sleazy & Politically Stupid)
To: Gamecock
9 posted on
07/07/2015 1:02:29 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
To: Gamecock
His brother, Cody Staples, told the New York Daily News that "Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh." I beg to differ.
10 posted on
07/07/2015 1:03:04 PM PDT by
Flick Lives
(One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
To: Gamecock
That’s what I thought possibly happened. Thought it would be disrespectful to post though.
To: Gamecock
Why in the world would one put a mortar on one’s head, regardless of which way it was pointed?
To: Gamecock
"He placed the firework in the (mortar) tube upside down," McCausland said. "And rather than being projected upwards, it projected into his skull." Did he have time to hand someone his beer?
15 posted on
07/07/2015 1:03:51 PM PDT by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: Gamecock
Must’ve been a heck of a performance.
20 posted on
07/07/2015 1:05:40 PM PDT by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Gamecock
Guy was a hot head, with an explosive temper.
21 posted on
07/07/2015 1:05:45 PM PDT by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Gamecock
“There was no Devon left when I got there,” his brother said....”
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Gee, where’d he go?
22 posted on
07/07/2015 1:05:57 PM PDT by
Responsibility2nd
(With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
To: Gamecock
“And rather than being projected upwards, it projected into his skull.”
Either way he was a goner.
23 posted on
07/07/2015 1:06:08 PM PDT by
McGruff
(Eat a snickers...)
To: Gamecock
Even if he put the shell in correctly and put the base of the mortar on his head, there may have been enough recoil to kill or seriously hurt him.
Some lessons you just can’t learn from.
24 posted on
07/07/2015 1:06:50 PM PDT by
DBrow
To: Gamecock
His mother is now saying we need more stringent fireworks laws. Perhaps a warning sticker saying, “if you are going to set this off from your head, please first make sure that the firing side is pointing to the sky rather than your head” would have saved this poor kid’s life or perhaps would save the life of some other kid who can’t resist the understandable urge to launch a firework from his head.
25 posted on
07/07/2015 1:07:20 PM PDT by
KevinB
(Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
To: Gamecock
Strong candidate for a darwin Award.
27 posted on
07/07/2015 1:07:59 PM PDT by
NRx
(An unrepentant champion of the old order and determined foe of damnable Whiggery in all its forms.)
To: Gamecock
He was Gaston from Beauty and the Beast? My daughter would be so sad. She had a crush on him since she was 4 years old.
28 posted on
07/07/2015 1:08:47 PM PDT by
MNDude
(God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
To: Gamecock
Oh I see, so instead of the mortar compressing his neck and spine and turning him into a quadriplegic, he absentmindedly had it upside down and killed him.
29 posted on
07/07/2015 1:11:45 PM PDT by
freedomson
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