No it doesn’t look like anyone was playing chicken with their lives and the smoke bombs. The bombs, which were supposed to just smoke, exploded instead. Product malfunction. Even if she did snuggle with Larry the Cable Guy it was not a case of hold my beer and watch this.
I am not suggesting that. I am saying that accidents like this happen when dangerous equipment is rolled out for entertainment purposes. I am saying that a culture with an unbalanced and gratuitous interest in the technology of force projection and death — in short, death porn — is a culture of death.