Three injured by backyard fireworks in Wright City (Hold muh beer Alert!)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch/STLToday.com ^ | 6.26.02 | Donald E. Franklin

[mhking]

Three people were injured Wednesday afternoon when a man ignited an M-80 in the back yard of a home in Wright City, authorities said.

Wright City Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer said that at about 2 p.m. the man lit a M-80 and attempted to throw it.

[mhking]

When one M-80 isn't enough, why not toss it into a box with MORE M-80's?

[1rudeboy]

mmmmmm . . . 80's

[wheezer]

The man who ignited the M-80 and another man, both in their 50s,...

Aren't they a bit old for that type of stuff?

[El Gato]

Aren't they a bit old for that type of stuff?

Never! No such thing as too old to play with fireworks.

[Phantom Lord]

NO

[Phantom Lord]

I remember launching M-80's with a sling shot at targets we placed out in a lake. Fun Stuff!

[OXENinFLA]

Yes when you light a M-80 it does Explode....Glad to see they figured that one out.

[JRandomFreeper]

ping

[tomakaze]

RE:Aren't they a bit old for that type of stuff?
 
Youre never too old firecrackers. Last year I had a hell of good time teaching my 6 year old nephew how blow up (throwing, planting "charges" in the dirt pile, etc)the monitor box full of little green army guys I got him for his birthday.

[tomakaze]

RE:Aren't they a bit old for that type of stuff?
 
Youre never too old firecrackers. Last year I had a hell of good time teaching my 6 year old nephew how blow up (throwing, planting "charges" in the dirt pile, etc)the monitor box full of little green army guys I got him for his birthday.

[windcliff]

ping

[dd5339]

I'm just curious where they got the M-80's! After all, the 4th of July is just around the corner.

Semper Fi!

[BallandPowder]

Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!

Youre never too old firecrackers

AGREED!

[tomakaze]

In washington you can get them on the Res.

[Shermy]

Doh!

Great find!

[NormsRevenge]

the force of the blast destroyed a 4-inch-thick concrete patio table,

Are these folk Darwinists or Augustus Buschies ? An M80 IS equivalent to a mini-stick of TNT .. or thereabouts

Be CareFul Out There Kidz!

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[meenie]

M-80's work especially well at cleaning sink traps and plugged toilets. The new fixtures look so much better.

[scholar]

Youre never too old firecrackers.

Well firecrackers wouldn't bother me at all. However, the stuff that is being set off around my place here in NW Indiana is enough to cause a coronary--M-80s and much larger. If I wanted to live in an artillary zone I would move to one!

[mhking]

Right after I graduated HS, we went to a family reunion in Akron, OH. My mother & father were in a cousin's room up on the 12th floor of a hotel. My brother, a couple of my cousins (who most would consider harmless by themselves, but when mixed with my brother and I...) were in our room on the first floor.

It was at night, and one of my cousins had some M-1000's. Of course, once we got tired of lighting them off in the back parking lot of the hotel, another cousin and I got the bright idea of pitching one in the pool.

We did. And it blew up. Loudly.

By time we got back to our room, out of breath (I'm not sure why, from running or laughing), the phone was ringing.

My mom, hearing the "boom," turned around and just happened to be looking straight out the window as she saw water. Moving upward. She didn't see us as she looked down, but she picked up the phone.

"Michael? What are you all doing?"

Needless to say, it was several years before I told her about what we truly were doing...