[Rdct29]

I have no idea what would make a grown man do something so stupid. Large amounts of alcohol must have been involved. A few years ago someone put a 3 inch mortar in the tube upside down. The firework blew up on the ground about 20 feet away from me. It was a loud and powerful explosion. It would definitely kill a person if it was on top of their head. If it was in their hand it would have destroyed their hand. Fireworks are nothing to play with, especially the larger ones.

[NorthMountain]

Firework Injuries in Slow Motion from our good friends at Ballistic High-Speed, in which our heroes explode fireworks near ballistic gel dummies and demonstrate what will happen to live dummies who misuse pyrotechnic devices.

[Mean Daddy]

My old roommate was 6’4” and 250 and he held onto one of those shells while another buddy lit it. Since it had a foot long fuse, he was going to have another friend light it while he tossed it towards the river. I remember the guy lighting the fuse only to have it instantly ignite the shell in his hand. He had a pretty bad burn and blister but he was lucky it didn’t take his hand off. He drank some more and passed out but the next day he was miserable.

[Loud Mime]

someone had to have captured this on their phone/camera