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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbc5.com ...


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
1 posted on 05/06/2005 3:33:24 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
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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.)
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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.)
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To: Rakkasan1
Definitely a "Y'all watch this..." moment.
4 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...)
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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)
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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)
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To: clee1
Was he trying to um... trying to light something?

I've heard of a blue flame but never an exposion.

7 posted on 05/06/2005 3:37:02 PM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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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!!)
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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)
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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...


10 posted on 05/06/2005 3:44:19 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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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.)
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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.")
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To: Rakkasan1

Boys and things that go boom.


13 posted on 05/06/2005 3:48:16 PM PDT by not_apathetic_anymore
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To: mhking

14 posted on 05/06/2005 3:49:20 PM PDT by dighton
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To: MikeinIraq
Well, this is the 'after zot' pic.

15 posted on 05/06/2005 3:49:42 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Rakkasan1

Wow, after only ten beers. I always needed at least 18 before I blew anything up.


16 posted on 05/06/2005 3:49:48 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I don't suffer from stress. I am a carrier!)
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To: patton

I must update my propoganda thanks lol.

Jeff


17 posted on 05/06/2005 3:50:22 PM PDT by MississippyMuddy (No peace, without FREEDOM!!)
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To: stylecouncilor

ping


18 posted on 05/06/2005 3:51:13 PM PDT by windcliff
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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."


19 posted on 05/06/2005 3:52:39 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: MikeinIraq
Before

After

20 posted on 05/06/2005 3:52:45 PM PDT by MississippyMuddy (No peace, without FREEDOM!!)
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