Driver Loses Hand in Jeep Explosion in Spokane

ABC News ^ | 1-25-14 | Gene Johnson AP

[Squantos]

The first in this video is smaller hand grenade simulator. The second item thrown is a 105mm simulator....

I’m guessing the larger of the two took off his bugger pickers......

http://youtu.be/PU2agAbb15A

Stay safe tet68 !

[gunsequalfreedom]

It was not a fire cracker if it blew off his hand.

[Nuc 1.1]

That is not a fire cracker. More likely a pipe bomb done poorly.

[House Atreides]

“An M-250 is not a firecracker. it is a quarter stick of dynamite, IIRC.”
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It’s a firework—albeit illegal in most jurisdictions.

http://www.wfboom.com/illegal.html

[Bob]

At least he won’t do it more than once more. That must’ve been one heck of a “firecracker”.

[editor-surveyor]

They do advertise them as “firecrackers.”

[Nuc 1.1]

I have had M-80s. I blew a twelve inch diameter concave hole about four inches deep through two to three inches of thick centipede grass. It is exactly like the big boomers one sees at the end of small fire works on the fourth. I was surprised at the power. It could blow off a hand if it was being held but it doesn’t seem powerful enough to do what happened here.

[editor-surveyor]

When I was about 6, we were standing on the sidewalk on E. 14th st. in Oakland watching a labor day parade, and a guy about 5 feet from where we were standing lit a firecracker of some kind and dropped it into a beer can, and handed it to a woman standing next to him. I turned away before it blew, and when I turned back the woman’s arm was severed above her wrist and her hand was nowhere in sight.

That ended Oakland’s labor day parades.

[TXnMA]

"a firecracker did that?"

WARNING! Don't click that link unless you have a strong stomach!

[Tijeras_Slim]

I defer to your expertise.

[Big Red Badger]

You’ll Never work in This Town Again !

[Carriage Hill]

¼ stick of dynamite might...

[mountn man]

A fool and his money hand are soon parted

[editor-surveyor]

The guy was a union thug business agent for the two GM plants near by. She was his main squeeze.

[editor-surveyor]

To this day I try not to work in that town, it is bad.

At the time it was a good neighborhood, mostly of families of Naval officers from NAS Alameda and Treasure Island. Now its murder city.

[editor-surveyor]

Just harmless fun, right?

[editor-surveyor]

Read the article.

It was a firecracker, and he had a box of them in the car.

[Rocky]

One heck of a firecracker.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Read the article.

I read the article. I'm not assuming the reporter got it correct. However, this could simply be a matter of defining terms.

That said, I just went to a website that shows hand injuries from a firecracker Warning, this link is very graphic. ewwwwww!

http://nielsolson.us/pictures/FirecrackerInjury.jpg