4th tomorrow suggest that he, or his friend, was lighting fireworks unsafely. I’ve watched people throw m80s, and bigger, at each other’s feet.
He asked the group if they were carrying fireworks or something similar. “They said, ‘We didn't have anything. He stepped on something!" Murphy recalled.
They were lying?
I mean it's possible, but wouldn't the police have said that it was--or they think it was--a firework? One thing they hate is to have the public go off half-cocked. Especially New York police.
M80s won’t sever a leg- fingers yes but a leg has a lot more mass