Sounds like what happened near me a few months ago. Some guy was shooting off fireworks in the middle of the night near a reservoir behind my house with a group of other Mensa candidates and at least partially decapitated himself.
OMG - I didn’t realize the guy in my area ALSO set it off on top of his head. And with his kids watching. I bet there are videos on Tik-Tok that these people are trying to recreate. I hope it wasn’t one of his kids that told him about it. “Hey dad.....”
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A 45-year-old Bothell [Washington State] man died Friday morning in a fireworks accident in a Redmond parking lot.
It happened around 2:30 a.m. in the 11500 block of Avondale Road.
The man was lighting off fireworks with his family, including young children, when he tried to launch a mortar-style firework from the top of his head.
When officers arrived, the man was unconscious and not breathing. Officers performed CPR until medics with Redmond Fire arrived. He was pronounced dead at the scene.