[Wally_Kalbacken]

I lived in Madison, Wisconsin, from the mid-70s to the mid-90s. Sometime in the 1980’s my wife and I went over to the country club and watched the fireworks display from the golf course. People would lay beach towels and blankets on the greens and lie back to look up at the fireworks, which detonated overhead and had an amazing effect in filling your field of view. The fireworks casing materials would float down on you as you were watching, but nothing dangerous. All of a sudden, the fireworks stop, and the radio synch-cast stops, and that’s it, show over. Sirens blare, and firetrucks race past as everyone heads home. The next day in the paper is the explanation that one of the fireworks company’s mortar tubes misfired, and an employee looked into the barrel to see what was wro... and, well, you get the rest. The fellow was decapitated. And he was an alleged professional.

[Albion Wilde]

of the fireworks company’s mortar tubes misfired, and an employee looked into the barrel to see what was wro... and, well, you get the rest...

Time to trot out this “FR classic” photo of Al Gore: