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Woman Hospitalized After Lighting Dynamite Rather Than Candle (Not Florida - this time)
NBC CT ^ | 09/07/2018

Posted on 09/07/2018 12:24:24 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

A 30-year-old Connecticut woman severely injured her hand and her face when she lit a quarter stick of dynamite that she mistook for a candle after thunderstorms knocked out power Thursday night.

Police said the woman was injured around 9:20 p.m. at the family’s Lindley Street home in Bridgeport and her husband and two children were home when the horrific accident happened.

Police have investigated and said the family had intended to buy emergency lighting from Home Depot, but the store was closed, according to police.

Then, they remembered seeing something in the basement that they thought were candles. The family bought the home two years ago and the previous residents or owners had left them behind, according to police.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcconnecticut.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Local News
KEYWORDS: boom; darwin; notacandle
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1 posted on 09/07/2018 12:24:24 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

I hate when I make that mistake....oh, wait....


2 posted on 09/07/2018 12:26:30 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Was the previous owner’s name Ahmed?


3 posted on 09/07/2018 12:26:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif"> zXSEP5Z, Audt7QO. xnKL3lW, RZ9yuyQ. XywCCJd, zQ9Ghyq.)
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Stupid woman. I never leave my dynamite just laying around.


4 posted on 09/07/2018 12:27:11 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Hold muh beer


5 posted on 09/07/2018 12:27:40 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Dynamite? Probably a large flash-powder firecracker, especially if it had a fuse protruding. Real dynamite needs a cap and fuze, and would not be put into long term storage with a cap.

A quarter stick of real dynamite would do more damage.

The “quarter stick” firecracker held 10 grams of flash powder, nothing to mess with, but nowhere the power of dynamite.


6 posted on 09/07/2018 12:31:47 PM PDT by DBrow
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Who in the Wild Wild World of Sports keeps capped and fused dynamite with candles? Who can't tell the difference between a fuse and a candle wick? Who can't tell the difference between a candle and a stick of dynamite, even in the dark? Who has that around like that who doesn't know you could just pull the fuse and cap out of the dynamite?

I think there is more to the story.

7 posted on 09/07/2018 12:32:24 PM PDT by GingisK
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I thought a 1/4 stick of dynamite was called an M-80.
8 posted on 09/07/2018 12:32:29 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Is a quarter stick of dynamite an M80 or an M100?

I was going to say, “who leaves dynamite lying around”, but M80’s are common fireworks fair around Independence Day.


9 posted on 09/07/2018 12:33:58 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (End the Mueller Gestapo now. Free the Donald.)
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‘Cause I’m T.N.T. I’m dynamite
T.N.T. and I’ll win the fight
T.N.T. I’m a power load
T.N.T. watch me explode


10 posted on 09/07/2018 12:35:55 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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People from my generation know the difference between dynamite and candles. These younger generations don’t know basic useful information.


11 posted on 09/07/2018 12:36:06 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Once upon a time Hollywood produced Westerns.

And everybody knew what dynamite/explosives were.


12 posted on 09/07/2018 12:37:21 PM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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13 posted on 09/07/2018 12:38:26 PM PDT by Blogatron (Brought to you by The American Frog Council; "Frog - The other green meat.")
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My first thought. Real Dynamite would not have just damaged her hand, it would have killed her.


14 posted on 09/07/2018 12:39:19 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: fwdude

I can see maybe mistaking it for a flare...but damn!


15 posted on 09/07/2018 12:40:18 PM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Thousands of bloggers are asking themselves “Wow. What does a real ‘boom’ sound like?”


16 posted on 09/07/2018 12:41:00 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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17 posted on 09/07/2018 12:41:47 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (They all get down, and arm up. Ready to take down tyrrany. The magnificient Seven.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Was the previous owner’s name Ahmed?

 

Actually it was Wile E. Coyote.

Image result for wile e coyote dynamite

18 posted on 09/07/2018 12:42:38 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Rats, RINO's and O-Tips. They all want Sessions to stay.)
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To: GingisK
I think there is more to the story.

 

Maybe her husband is thinking  - "Dammit. Now I gotta come up with a Plan B."

19 posted on 09/07/2018 12:44:18 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Rats, RINO's and O-Tips. They all want Sessions to stay.)
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To: Blogatron

20 posted on 09/07/2018 12:47:33 PM PDT by PGR88
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