Connecticut woman blows off fingers after mistaking dynamite for candle

ABC 7 New York ^ | September 7, 2018

[MplsSteve]

“You generally don’t arm one until ready to use it.”

I think it depends on what part of Connecticut the woman was from. Some areas...heck, you may need one at a moment’s notice and can’t be bothered with taking the time to arm it.

[bgill]

She lost out on a Darwin by surviving and already having kids.

[PLMerite]

Bed Bath and Kaboom.

[PLMerite]

I have it on good authority that’s a good way to smuggle dope into Islamic countries. Or was back in the 1980s.

[pgkdan]

Dynamite sounds a lot more scary than firecracker...you can always trust our news media to lie and distort the truth.

[Pollster1]

I think it depends on what part of Connecticut the woman was from. Some areas...heck, you may need one at a moment’s notice and can’t be bothered with taking the time to arm it.

I've heard that works when you're fishing.

[livius]

I always have a stick of dynamite next to my emergency candles. Don’t you?

[beelzepug]

These are called seal bombs where I come from. Commercial fishermen throw them into the water to keep the seals away from the nets and eating the salmon.

[GingisK]

Have you seen the pneumatic caps and detonator?

[GingisK]

Candle wicks and dynamite fuses are very different. Anly a fool would confuse them. Nobody would would put a short fuse and a cap into a stick of dynamite unless there were malicious intent.

I think there is more to the story.

[21twelve]

That’s what I’m thinking. An M-80 or something. I guess if the lights were out I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt. And as bad as blowing your fingers off is - doing it in the dark to add to the stress and difficulty of first aid!

At my daughter’s college they have a website for students that I get notified on. Books for sale, apartments, etc. The other day some girl posted: “Lost my keys! Does anybody have a Ford Explorer XLT so I can make a copy?”

I asked my college-aged son if he thought she was serious or just goofing around. He shook his head with a smirk “No - she’s serious.”

[21twelve]

“Oh here they are. And they’re all the way from Rome!”

[Deplorable American1776]

DynoMite...

Tip, when storing dynamite, make sure you don't put it near the candles...

[Safetgiver]

No. Never have.

[dfwgator]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLbE3IUY2U

[EdnaMode]

Scary!

[Oscar in Batangas]

Yah, a birthday cake for a teenager could take out a city block!

[bert]

Her fingers were blown off by the blasting cap.

Had it been dynamite, her arm would be gone

[Tunehead54]

M-80?

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M-80s were always described as 1/4 stick of dynamite, they did have a fuse coming out the middle of a grey cylinder maybe 4 inches long but whether we got them in the states or Mexico they were pretty much a dud.

Maybe 4 firecrackers for the bang. Still even holding onto a single firecracker when it explodes is going to hurt.

When our family put in a pool - actually a steel stock tank they had dynamite to take out some granite.

I stole a couple of sticks and some blasting caps and kept them together in my lockbox in my room.

I do not know how my dad found them but I can assure you I got the beating of my life for that one.

[dowcaet]

My family and I keep open sticks of dynamite in the house. Don’t all of you do the same too?