Posted on 07/04/2022 2:23:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The boy’s mother has shared his photo with us. She tells us he’s Camrynn Ray McMichael.
“He loved playing football for MTV and basketball. He’s dedicated, never has missed a game, workout, practice or volunteering,” said his mother Kyrra. “Getting ready to go into 6th grade, but most of all he loved his little sister. He loved her more than anything.”
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Police are investigating.
Dang.
RIP big guy. Prayers up for the family. Especially mama and sissy.
11-year-old dies in firework accident, ‘gone in the blink of an eye’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/child-dies-firework-accident-indiana-police
I see no redeeming value in their sales............
As a side note, decades ago, my dumbass brother-in-law hosted a July 4th party at his house and promptly started a fire in the neighbor's bushes due to the crap he was firing off..........
I will probably catch spears over this, but Darwinism comes to mind as the redeeming value.
“I see no redeeming value in their sales............”
How about enjoyment? They are fun. Life is for living, not preventing every possible risk. We could just live in padded cells, with filtered air, and reduce all of our risks.
We have gotten so obsessed with safety, that we are forgetting how to find enjoyment.
Yes, accidents will happen - that’s just part of life and death on this planet.
Kinda rough considering this was a kid.
Kids do lots of dumb things. Considering the crap me and my friends got into it’s a wonder we all grew into adults.
At least this kid wasn’t “safe” playing videos games as a coach potato.
Prayers for the family.
Not for me and my animals who go nuts during the stupid ass neighborhood pyrotechnics that typically are fired off even after 11:00 p.m. on the nights leading up to July 4 and a day or two after......
Sorry dude, but they're not my definition of fun..........
Perhaps it is rough. What sort of parent allows kids to play with explosives? The parents facilitated this kid removing his possibly defective genes from the gene pool.
Perhaps it is rough. What sort of parent allows kids to play with explosives? The parents facilitated this kid removing his possibly defective genes from the gene pool.
“What sort of parent allows kids to play with explosives?”
The kind from my era. The “helicopter DROP” parents of the 60’s. We did all kinds of cool things with explosives (no animals were ever harmed). Even today my sister and I fire up fountains and smoke bombs/strobes in her fire pit out back. Don’t forget the sparklers! Makes you feel like a kid again.
This era of fireworks quality is very good from what I’ve been seeing, I wonder what type lead to this boy’s death.
Yes---those of us who own and love their pets usually have to contend with very spooked and upset animals around July 4. Last night, someone right behind my house was setting off loud firecrackers, which really upset my cats. And that upsets me...a LOT.
In the 70’s you could still go into a hardware store and buy “stump blower” which was about 1/4 to 1/2 stick of dynamite. Had lots of fun with it, either whole or made into separate shells.
You assume the parents knew he was playing with fireworks.
Children get all kinds of stuff off the internet. It they can get drugs, fireworks would be easy.
Not all parents are helicopter parents. I grew up with two loving parents but once I did my chores, friends and I could be gone by until the headlights on cars going down the road were turned on.
We survived and learned to be responsible adults, by hook or by crook.
Sounds awesome.
The parents were there when the kid blew himself up.
“I see no redeeming value in their sales............”
They weed out the stupid. Unfortunately innocent people sometimes pay for that stupidity.
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Got a link for that information?
Articles I’ve read don’t mention this tidbit.
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