"I hate it when that happens."
Posted on 09/09/2018 7:52:05 AM PDT by mandaladon
A Connecticut woman suffered serious injuries Thursday night after she mistakenly lit a stick of dynamite thinking it was a candle during a power outage. Authorities said the 30-year-old mother of two got involved in the “tragic accident” when her family’s Bridgeport home lost power during a thunderstorm Thursday night and she “attempted to light” what she believed were candles in the basement left behind by the previous residents, CBS Boston reported.
The family attempted to purchase emergency lighting at a Home Depot store, but discovered the store had closed. Out of desperation, they decided to rummage through their basement to find candles that would provide light.
But when the woman lit one of the “candles,” she accidentally ignited a quarter stick of dynamite and caused it to explode in her hand.
“She attempted to light one of what she thought was the candle and turned out to be a quarter stick of dynamite,” police said.
Authorities say the woman suffered severe injuries to her hand and face and could lose several fingers as a result of her injuries.
All family members were home at the time of the incident, but no other injuries had been reported. WABC reported that the force of the explosion was strong enough to blow out one of the windows inside the home.
Bridgeport Fire Department officials and Connecticut State Police searched the home for other explosives and removed another dynamite device. State police officers later disposed of the device.
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Unreal. How does a stick of dynamite feel like a wax candle?
In rental housing in Bridgeport? More likely not.
Bridgeport, these days, is only about 20% white and those white folks are largely older homeowners in more prosperous areas of the once gilded, but now bullet-ridden city.
She blew it!!!
‘old muh beer, Wilbur. I found some old candles. It’s our lucky day.
Exactly right. Plus, dynamite doesn’t come primed, you have to crimp a cap to some fuse and push a hole into the stick and insert it. It doesn’t come with the fuse sticking out of it. This is a firework.
-USMC Combat Engineer
There’s a type of firecracker named “1/4 stick”.
Video of some fool kids playing with them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEtNAL6p8ds
Yeah that was my first thought too... ONLY seriously injured??
BOOOMBA PINGA LING
Who left out the Toy box ?
Off topic, but that pic brought to mind a talk with a security guy some years back. His job was to check out computer centers' security. At one place, their security guy went on and on about how great their security was.
He told the guy to go over to some file cabinet and open the top drawer. He did so and nearly had a cow as there was what appeared to be a bundle of sticks of dynamite.
It turned out the first security guy cut up a broom handle, painted them red, bundled them up and had aother operative who was a "visitor" plant it.
He said it happened about three out of every 10 visits.
There once was a girl from Galil,
>>>CYMBAL CRASH<<<
who used dynamite for a dill,
they found her vagina,
in South Carolina,
and bits of her t!ts in Brazil.
OLD dynamite ...... deadly . Forms crystals that are super shock sensitive . Before the back hoe tractor grave diggers used to take a quarter or half stick of dynamite to break frozen ground in cemeteries to dig a grave. As time past there was a shitload of OLD dynamite in the grounds crews barns in graveyards that my EOD team got called to render safe ..... had to be soaked down with acetone , gallons of it per case of dynamite to dissolve the crystals. Not fun...... if it was a remote building we would try to remove anything we could safely or else counter charge it with a few blocks of C-4 and blow it in place aka BIP it ! Nitroglycerine “crystals” will F’ya up if you don’t respect it.....
Good thing there is a renowned burn center, right in B’port.
Yikes!!!
I’ll remember that, Thank You for the safety info.
Oddly funny, this morning on METV Oldies Channel the My Three Son’s show a Highway Blasting Crew found some old sticks and the Dog brought one home and was playing keep away and bouncing it all around, etc.
It was a fairly short, fat stick with protruding flats like a nut on the ends and in the middle of the stick.
The Older Guy on the Crew warned the Newbie about it being from the War and the instability to shock.
Now I’m looking over My shoulder doing a Rod Serling check...
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