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Police: Drinking Binge Preceeds House Explosion
NBC 5 ^
| 5-6-05
| NBC 5
Posted on 05/06/2005 3:33:24 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
PLAINFIELD, Ill. -- Police said a man playing with commercial-grade fireworks after drinking 10 beers caused an explosion that gutted his home and seriously injured himself and a friend.
Police said Steven Glenn lit a 10-inch diameter commercial-grade firework, the type used for professional fireworks shows, NBC5's Lisa Tutman reported. That type of firework is illegal for Illinois residents to have in their possession.
"He lit a fuse and thought he could put it out. The fuse at that time, apparently he says about three seconds, went off -- exploded. Next thing he said he remembered was being transported to the hospital," said Pat Berry of the Will County Sheriff's Department.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beer; binge; darwinaward; drinking; explosion; fireworks; holdmuhbeer; house; idiot
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best headline I've read in a while, hold muh beer
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posted on
05/06/2005 3:33:24 PM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
To: Rakkasan1
The quintessential "Hold muh beer and watch this!" story.
2
posted on
05/06/2005 3:34:37 PM PDT
by
wimpycat
(Hyperbole is the opium of the activist wacko.)
To: Rakkasan1
Ouch! THAT's gonna leave a mark.
3
posted on
05/06/2005 3:35:20 PM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: Rakkasan1
Definitely a "Y'all watch this..." moment.
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posted on
05/06/2005 3:36:20 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Life's a beach - and Liberals are like the sand that gets in your swimsuit...)
To: Rakkasan1
I wonder if he has (or had) a mullet.
5
posted on
05/06/2005 3:36:48 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Yankee Air Pirate)
To: Rakkasan1
Drinking Binge Preceeds House Explosion Don't the morons at NBC News know how to use spellcheck?
6
posted on
05/06/2005 3:36:57 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(The truth is not hard to kill, but a lie told well is immortal. -- Mark Twain)
To: clee1
Was he trying to um... trying to light something?
I've heard of a blue flame but never an exposion.
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posted on
05/06/2005 3:37:02 PM PDT
by
expatguy
(http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
To: Rakkasan1
Beer - helping white people blow up since 1837.
8
posted on
05/06/2005 3:39:24 PM PDT
by
MississippyMuddy
(No peace, without FREEDOM!!)
To: SIDENET
Dang! You're gonna stand there, owning a fireworks stand, and tell me you don't have no whistling bungholes, no spleen spliters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker donts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, or one single whistling kitty chaser?
9
posted on
05/06/2005 3:40:02 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
To: Rakkasan1; MeekOneGOP
you know, if we could find a picture of the house before and after, it would be a great ZOT pic probably...
To: Rakkasan1
I don't even think about this type of behavior until after a 12-pack. Boy can't hold his beer.
11
posted on
05/06/2005 3:44:22 PM PDT
by
zencat
(The universe is not what it appears, nor is it something else.)
To: MississippyMuddy
The german bier purity law dates to 1598.
12
posted on
05/06/2005 3:46:27 PM PDT
by
patton
("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
To: Rakkasan1
Boys and things that go boom.
To: mhking
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posted on
05/06/2005 3:49:20 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: MikeinIraq
Well, this is the 'after zot' pic.
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posted on
05/06/2005 3:49:42 PM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: Rakkasan1
Wow, after only ten beers. I always needed at least 18 before I blew anything up.
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posted on
05/06/2005 3:49:48 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(I don't suffer from stress. I am a carrier!)
To: patton
I must update my propoganda thanks lol.
Jeff
To: stylecouncilor
To: Rakkasan1
Well he had to heat his house somehow!
"Officials ruled out natural gas as the cause of the fire after discovering that service had been shut off to the home."
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posted on
05/06/2005 3:52:39 PM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: MikeinIraq
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