she was a smart woman... 8^) it was prolly a 1/4stick
Posted on 01/25/2014 3:59:55 PM PST by smokingfrog
An explosion from a firecracker inside a moving Jeep blew off the driver's hand early Saturday and scattered debris over half a block in Spokane, prompting initial fears over the man's intent, police and neighbors said.
Witnesses saw a flash of light from inside the vehicle, a red Jeep with a gray top, as it drove down a residential street, police said.
Donald Wilkes, 61, said the blast rattled his house and woke up everyone inside. He initially thought someone had crashed into his parked truck, and when he ran outside, he found the street filled with smoke and the Jeep stopped just against his 6-foot-tall cedar fence.
"I looked around for something that got hit, but there was nothing," Wilkes said. "My son reached in to pull the keys out of the ignition and make sure he didn't go anywhere, and that's when we saw his hand was missing. It blew it right off at his wrist — they found part of it half a block away."
Wilkes' son, 30-year-old Nicholas, and another neighbor applied a tourniquet to the man's left arm. The man was stocky, estimated at about 28 to 30 years old, and coherent. But he wouldn't answer questions about what he had been doing, Wilkes said.
"All he did was look at my son and say, 'Oh God, oh God.' He looked like he was going to pass out," Wilkes said. "My main concern was why he was driving around my neighborhood at 1 in the morning with an explosive device."
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Lots of Indian reservations to buy from. But it is a funny time of year for fireworks, except I guess Chinese New Year is coming up.
Happy New Year, Chode.
I made that mistake once (and only once)...I was going to throw a firecracker, so I lit the fuse, went into my wind-up, and BANG! It went off in my hand right behind my head. I couldn’t feel a thing...I thought sure I had been left with a bloody stump. I started to feel a tingle in my hand after a few minutes, so I decided to look. Still intact, all fingers with one thumb. NEVER did it again...
she was a smart woman... 8^) it was prolly a 1/4stick
Article says it was an M-1000.
Full Stick/M-1000[edit]
Amteur Pyro made Full Stick- Current3” Long
2-1/4” Bore
2-3/4” O.D.
50-100 Grams of Flash Powder
Color: Kraft
or
6” Long
1-1/4” Bore
1-7/16” Outside diameter
50-100 Grams of Flash Powder
Color: RWB
Bodily harm: Instant Death
Note: Measurements are not exact or uniform, as these are only produced by bootleg manufacturers
Good times.
“My eyebrows never did grow back right!”
Ha! My Uncle has no eyebrows or eyelashes! He tried to build a rocket-powered wagon back in about 1930.
and the happiest of New Years to you Sir also!
We had M-80’s and they might take off a finger if everything was just right, but not a hand. IMO We respected them.
Mr. Murphy at work??? remember, all five second fuses, aren't...
I'll say. Second-hand smoke from that cigarette. It's a wonder you survived.
Murphy never takes a day off...
Firecrackers don’t rattle houses.
I don’t think they sell those in Texas either.
But they say these M-800’s are equivalent to a 1/4 stick of dynamite?
http://www.alamofireworks.com/catalog/m-800-firecrackers-24s/
No. From the headline, it appears his Jeep did that.
An M-250 is not a firecracker. it is a quarter stick of dynamite, IIRC.
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