Posted on 05/27/2006 6:56:13 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
SEATTLE - Three men are in the hospital with serious injuries after a fireworks accident Thursday.
Investigators say the victims were part of a group of 10 or 12 construction workers having a barbeque at the KOA campground off Highway 12 in Lewis County.
One of the men came over to the campfire and showed off a powerful firework that was about 5 inches long and an inch thick. Another man tossed it into the fire, but it failed to light, so he reached in to the fire to retrieve it, police say.
A family member told KOMO 4 News another man tried to stop him from grabbing in, and in the process, the device went off.
Police say those two men lost their hand in the explosion, and suffered other head and facial injuries. They were both airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Both men were said to be in their early 40s.
A third man who was walking nearby was also suffered head injuries and possibly an eye fracture. He was taken to Centralia Providence Hospital.
Investigators believe the two men had been drinking.
Read the article.
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After using many small bundles of dynamite throughout the day, at the end of his work day he decided to use up what he he had left in one big explosion that he claimed would break up rock for many yards around and then he could head back home without worrying about the leftover dynamite in his trunk. He tied by my rough count over 160 sticks together in one huge bundle, wired it up to his battery pack rig, then threw it into the water and touched the wires together.
The resulting explosion rocked the area for more than a 1/4 mile around. Windows were broken in a nearby subdivision and elderly retirees were frightened out of their wits.
Within a few minutes we could hear sirens coming on the highway and soon firetrucks and cop cars were on the scene. I was almost completely deafened and soaked with salt water from the huge geyser that lifted up a tower of water to what I estimated as 150 feet above our heads. The last I saw of the inebriated demolition man he was being loaded into a deputy sheriff's cruiser and headed for the local courthouse.
The thread title is correct, dynamite and alcoholic refreshments do not play well together.
You can throw a stick of dynamite into a fire and all that it will do is burn...not explode.
All types of dynamite require a tremendous mechanical shock (such as another blast or blasting cap) to set them off.
When I was younger I used to throw dynamite into the campfire to watch the panic that ensued when everyone ran over themselves to get out of there. They simply didn't know that it would not explode.
No shock, no explosion.
Nitroglycerine is a powerful vasodilator. Anyone who has been treated for a heart attack will tell you that the nitroglycerine administered to increase cardiac vessel blood flow will give you a whopping, fierce headache. Some cardiologists even administer morphine to ease the headache pain.
Me, too:
When I was working in New Mexico, some Indians on one of the reservations were celebrating New Years by drinking and throwing lighted sticks of dynamite out through the hogan door - like firecrackers.
One of the drunks missed the doorway, hit the doorframe, and the dynamite bounced back inside the hogan -- where it exploded...
I got this E-mail this week.
HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE TWO DUCK HUNTERS FROM WISCONSIN?
ABSOLUTELY A TRUE STORY HEARD ON A WISCONSIN RADIO STATION
REPORTING ON THE INCIDENT.
A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00 (with monthly payments of $560.00).
He and a friend go duck hunting in mid-winter; and of course all of the lakes are frozen.
These two guys go on a lake with their GUNS, a DOG, and of
course the new NAVIGATOR.
They decide they want to make a natural looking water area for the ducks,something for the decoys to float on.
Now making a hole in the ice large enough to invite a passing duck, is going to take a little more power than the average drill auger can produce.
So, out of the back of the new Navigator comes a stick of
dynamite with a short 40 second-fuse. Now our two Rocket Scientists, afraid they mightslip on the ice while trying to run away after lighting the fuse (and becoming toast, along with the Navigator), decide onthe following course of action: they light the 40 second fuse; then, with
a mighty thrust, they throw the stick of dynamite as far away as possible.
Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the
NAVIGATOR, the GUNS, and the DOG...???
Let's talk about the dog: A highly trained Black Lab used for RETRIEVING. Especially things thrown by the owner. You guessed it: the dog takes off across the ice at a high rate of speed and grabs the stick of dynamite, with the burning 40-second fuse, just as it hits the ice.
The two men swallow, blink, start waving their arms and, with veins in their necks swelling to resemble stalks of rhubarb, scream and holler at the dog to stop.
The dog, now apparently cheered on by his master, keeps coming. One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 bird shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab.
The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused then continues on. Another shot, and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course terrified, thinks these two geniuses have gone insane.
The dog takes off to find cover, under the brand new Navigator. The men continue to scream as they run.
The red hot exhaust pipe on the truck touches the dogs rear end, he yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and takes off after his master.
Then """"""""""BOOOOOOOOOOOOM""""""""""!!!! The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom of the lake, leaving the two idiots standing there with "I can't believe this just happened" looks on their faces.
The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives is NOT COVERED by the policy. And he still had yet to make the first of those $560.00 a month payments...The dog is okay.
OK, well, great story. But did they catch any fish -- that floated to the surface?
If you have ever worked in a mine where they use it to blast(I have, a gold mine back in the 1960s)you will also know the fumes caused by the explosion will also you give you a headache, a bad one. You have to let the fumes clear before you can go back in after the blast. Sometimes we would wait until the next day to go in.
It's a classic and well worth adding to the thread. Thanks
They blowed up real good too!
One Independence Day weekend when I was a teenager, my buddies and I got a case of beer and went out to the swamp to light fireworks. I remember we would take bottle rockets and light them off clenched between our teeth. The trick was to open our mouths just in time for the rockets to take off. Boy were we stupid. But we thought we were pretty cool at the time.
Good grief! That sounds like they were IN the hogan throwing dynamite out the door. If it bounced back in they must have been some highly saturated drunks to survive that. They say it's always the drunk driver who walks away from the wreck unscathed leaving dead or mangled victims of his/her criminal level stupidity. I guess that applies to drunken New Year's Eve celebrants a well.
Hey! I'll thank you not to post that pitchur of me and my naybor on FR again without my permishun. Us GA boys aint too prowd to talk to a big city lawyer about that kind of yankee tomfoolery.
It could be a fracture of the globe of the eye as well.
This once again proves that journalism is the easiest degree one who is none too bright can get in college.
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