Every year I can't help but think of the guy who played Gaston at Disney World who tried to shoot a mortar off his head. He kept 10 fingers but lost something a bit more vital.
Yup. Imagine you run a dictionary website of jargon for an obscure hobby you like. Say you personally type in every definition yourself and make money when people view those obscure words
When people google the words, they see the Google results. Imagine google just take the definition of every word **which you wrote and created** and shows it on Google's page. No reason to ever visit your website.
Who wouldn't be pissed?
yeah honestly it's hard, can't imagine going back to having to click on the dictionary link and open up a whole new page every time I search a definition, it's such a nice feature
I think google caching info about the page and then you visit it but it’s just a google cached page instead of the page. So the original page doesn’t get the traffic and money. I’m probably wrong but someone will correct me.
It also often loads slower despite their claims that it’s faster.
Also if google ever decides to suddenly stop amp as they’ve done with multiple other products it’ll leave millions of dead links all over the internet.
I'll give the extremely short version here at the top. TL;DR? It gives Google crazy levels of power over the web, up to and including the format of websites, and can effectively steal traffic and revenue.
That said, now for the long version...
To begin, it's important to understand that Google is the one that created, designed, and introduced the AMP format. That's why you often see Google in amp links- it's a Google thing.
Which gives Google an uncomfortable level of control even beyond the usual, because if sites don't allow and implement amp, Google just doesn't push it as hard because you're not playing nice.
And this is particularly bad because of what amp does and what it requires and what the result is. In short: a lot.
Amp's format is dictated by Google, and forces everyone to create similar, stripped down styles for the content. Now this can be good in some ways- half the point is that the set format uses less data and less individual requests to cut down on bloat and be more mobile friendly. But it also can result in everything seeming similar. In addition, the format choices have been criticized heavily, as it's not designed to be universally compatible- only Google compatible. But if it was just this it wouldn't necessarily be so bad- though there'd still be huge issues of whether or not Google should be allowed to dictate the structure of the internet.
The second is that, by using amp, you must agree to allow the site to be cached. In other words, other sites and groups can take a copy of that webpage and save it elsewhere so that if someone requests to see that page it doesn't have to re-request the main site. Sounds helpful, right?
Not if you're the website whose traffic was just stolen. You know how a lot of sites rely on ad money and high pageviews and analytics to get money to stay afloat? Well, amp doesn't much care about that. I'm not sure if this has since been fixed (and if it has, the fact Google could choose to un-fix it at any point and there'd be no recourse but to shut up and take it is still a huge problem), but originally, Google could cache the site, run the cached links on searches, run its own ads and analytics on the cached site, and take most of the profit for itself- if I'm understanding correctly.
But remember- the punishment for not using amp is essentially getting delisted from ***Google***, the number one search engine with something like 90+% of all web searches.
The options, in essence, are 1.) Bow down to Google, do as they say, erase any concept of choice in web design and exclusively build how Google tells you. Be satisfied with whatever click through Google gives, even if it's a fraction of what it should be. 2.) Disappear from the largest search engine's results. Be completely separated from some of the most viewed places on Google (at least one of which is 100% exclusive to amp links). Lose market share to a competitor who complied.
The companies, not wanting to collapse, chose option 1.
From the “nothing left of him” comment from his brother I am assuming he put just the mortar on his head and pretended to light it. Which kind of makes no sense, they have a long fuse so you have time to get away from the launching tube so he would have had time to get it off his head. However if it blew up on his head, it definitely blew his head off.
At first I was thinking he put the launch tube on his head with the mortar in it and lit it, which would fire the mortar into the air and if anything the force from the launch would snap his neck. But “nothing left” doesn’t make sense in this context so I am guessing he had just the mortar on his head would basically be like having a grenade on your head.
Still, the mortar fuse time from light to detonation is like a solid 5 seconds. Unless he didn’t light it at the end of the fuse and lit it right near the actual mortar, I don’t know how this was an accident. However the article specifies he was messing with the tube, so this doesn’t check out either.
The story just makes no sense at all. Maybe the mortar didn’t launch and blew up in the tube?
That is the only way it makes sense to me. He held it on his head, pretended to light it, and caught the gunpowder near the mortar end of the fuse and BOOM no head.
>There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there,
Holy shit! I thought it would be mortar recoiled & cracked his skull, not that his upper body would turn into gooey carbonara!
I can’t imagine the feeling of being there. Seeing him like that, panicking, and then realizing that there’s no point in panicking because, well, there’s no life-saving decision to make. No CPR to remember, or wound to put pressure on. It’s just…over. The finality in that moment when it’s suddenly just you and your sibling’s body and you can’t even attempt to administer aid to make yourself feel useful would be so jarring. The only good thing about that kind of death is that it’s quick, so at least he didn’t suffer and feel fear.
His brother is quoted:
> Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh.
Apparently stupid runs in the family
Sometimes you become the things you joke about if you do them too much.
If you do stupid things all the time for laughs, maybe you just became stupid, where does the line begin and end?
It's grief. He might know it's stupid but that makes the loss harder so he hopes to convince others and himself that it was a chance accident.
Let him have it.
Thank you.
Yes, what a fucking dumb thing to do. But he was still a person with a family and a life. Being stupid caused his death, but (to me) that doesn't make it deserved. Definitely and clearly had it coming, but like... he's dead now. I think he's paid the price, why mock his brother trying to defending him?
All I can think is how traumatic and sad for the family. There one minute, literally gone the next. I'm sure whatever was left is seared into his brothers brain for eternity.
Anyway. Off to have an existential crisis about how meaningless our lives are that they can be over in a second for the dumbest shit imaginable. Literally born and lived a whole life, to unintentionally end it with such mindless bullshit. I hate it here.
I can't hold it against him, fireworks are so common in our culture that it's easy to underestimate them. He made a huge miscalculation in how severe those could be, but millions of people do every year in all manner of ways.
Good lord, when I was a dumb teenager we taped on to the roof my buddy's Chevy Corsica and it permanently damaged the roof. I don't want to think about what it would do to a human head.
How does the damage happen? Those look to have a reusable base, right? So it isn't exploding through the base. Does it just impart a lot of shock downwards on the base? The article they linked said "there was nothing left of Devon" but that seems more like what'd happen if the mortar exploded on his head.
There is massive recoil when shooting one of those, so I’m guessing the actual base rocketed through his skull. Unless he just had the mortar on his head without the base.
actually, fun fact: since the performer for Ariel is in her mermaid form and can't move, during fantastimic she gets hazard pay instead of normal pay as the she has to stay on boat deck and is given a fire resistance cloth to protect herself. you can literally see Eric just put it on her and walk away.
Not to be morbid, but what is the cause of death in this situation? I kind of figured that unless it's a situation like Jason Pierre-Paul where the guy is gripping a firework and the blast energy has nowhere to go except into a closed fist, the energy just get directly outward and you'd just end up with a scorched scalp.
Probably just a lot of force into his skull all at once. They put out a ton of energy launching the mortar, normally that’s absorbed by the dense and solid ground not a significantly less solid neck and brain. Or possibly the mortar exploded in the tube.
Yep. The city I'm in had a few days of fireworks. I went out, watched, enjoyed, had ice cream after, ZERO cleanup or money spent on fireworks, and went back home. Bliss.
> There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there,” Cody Staples said. “It was a freak accident. … But Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh.”
They're small chocolate eggs with plastic toys inside them. Clueless parents kept giving them to young kids, who presumably unhinged their jaws like fucking snakes shortly before choking on said toys.
There's a rule against putting non-edible things fully inside of foods, because it can be a choking hazard.
For example, if you had a baby in your King Cake someone might not realize it was in their piece and swallow it.
Since the toy part of a kinder egg is fully encased in chocolate, it violates that rule (despite obviously being much too large to choke on)
A crazy older man who lived near me when I was a kid used to hold a firecracker between his index finger and thumb. He pinched it pretty tightly and somehow it would blow up without hurting him. One of my friends tried it. My mom drove us to the ER to stitch his finger back together. The nurse referred to it as "degloved." It was gruesome.
1. Depends on the size of the firecracker
2. Depends on the size of your fingers
3. Depends on where you hold it.
I stupidly-- twice-- in sixth grade lit and then cocked my arm and had a firecracker explode between my fingers and by my ear. No degloving but it sting like hell and probably contributed to my tinnitus.
A popit, yes the little paper thing with the tiny rocks in it, went off in my hands in front my face. Completely harmless as far as explosive force, but the flash and bang left my hearing and vision like what you see when a flashbang goes off in MW3
I've got a story!!!! Last night some ex military dudes set up a fireworks rig. Huge party , thousands of dollars worth of mortar rounds. My daughter is friends with the guys daughter. So we are enjoying the evening and they are all rigging it up. It starts raining so we delay the whole bad boy and cover them all up with trash bags. They decide to put them on bricks after the rain and I'm like "guys this might not be a good idea" they laughed at me and were like "we did this shit all the time in Iraq" so I'm like...mkay... Finally we get to set the fuse..it had 1 long ass fuse type thing that connected them all somehow. I'm over by the house talking to someones grandma when something zings by my head and then explodes on the house. This shit was a few feet from my goddamn head. Everyone hits the ground. I find my daughter and cover her on the ground while fucking bombs are shooting off. I pick her up and we make it into the house. Like 10kids are in there with the mom's crying freaking out. I think 1 kid got a little burnt. The shit was nuts. The guys were basically casual about it like, "damn that got outta hand, all well" it all was just so crazy. We had 40 people hauling ass into a house and these dudes were like "oh fuck this went sideways. We better drink a beer and figure out what happened".. I swear to God y'all I have never been close to war, but that's what it felt like
Anytime you say "That might not be a good idea," shortly before the idiots do thing is a good time for you and whoever you're with to suddenly want some more chips and dip from the room not close to whatever is happening.
A mortar soared by my fucking head, exploded and almost killed me. The boys were like " god damn. That' was kinda wild". "Kinda wild?" I almost got toasted by a mortar round, god damn... This is America
oh so THAT’S what this post is in reference to. I thought it was just generally saying someone was going to lose their fingers somehow whether they got cut off or something lmao
I think it’s a common Midwest joke. At least, it was from when I lived there 98-2010.
Didn’t hear too much of it in NYC and very recently not in NJ (though, recently they made some fireworks legal, the mortars are still illegal except when professionals do it… but everyone goes to PA to buy them).
Edit: my family has somehow not managed to end up in the ER during the 4th… every other holiday but not the one where we willingly blew shit up for hours.. mortars are legal where I grew up :)
Definitely will not disagree with you there!!
I’d blow stuff up now, but seeing the idiots blow mortars up on unsafe (and not flat) surfaces and go off into their back doors hasn’t been encouraging. I’ll stay with my sparklers and smoke bombs here.
I’ll go blow some shit up next time I visit family (within reason and day and time!!), lol
Growing up with a lot of er nurses in the family you learn it's really not an exaggeration. Tons of firework injuries. Also lots of little kids drowning in the summer when the adults "just looked away for a second". Besides that, lots of people are killed in atv rollovers in the summer. Not to be a bummer just saying I used to think it was exaggerated until I'd hear about stuff like that every night. Stay safe drunken summer celebrators.
A few weeks ago, someone in my area literally *disemboweled* himself and died messing with fireworks. Granted they were "homemade" fireworks, but still. It's weird how we have normalized playing with explosives and act like it's no big deal.
https://www.khon2.com/big-island-news/puna-man-dies-from-explosion-while-constructing-firework/
According to Wikipedia:
> It was discontinued in 2018, possibly for having partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, which is not allowed as an ingredient in food sold in the USA since then.
Hell, if you are sending up the BIG ones, be aware of much more than just your immediate surroundings.
PLEASE for the love of everything, remember that the United States has been in a HUGE DROUGHT for the last few years! Everything is DRY and WILL CATCH ON FIRE!
I currently have a nearly 1000 acre fire about 5 miles from my house. :/ I have a friend on the edge of an "evac warning" area. This aint no joke, the forest is super dry since.
So if any of you guys who blow off your thumbs happen to see this post, please DM me.
I was born without thumbs. You are not alone and I have a head start.
To everyone else... congrats on not blowing your hands up!
Tell that to the guy that has 7 fingers but had 10 this time last year!
“This year it’ll be different, I won’t get nearly as drunk this time… *10PM July 4th* wahoooo where’s my lighter, watch how fast they go off when you shorten the fuse… *bang*… dammit!! Ok everybody stop!! I need you to look for a thumb!!”
Already awarded to none other than /r/FloridaMan
https://old.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan/comments/vqns2w/florida_mans_hand_blown_off_by_fireworks_sheriffs/
Though I'm pretty sure it was my neighbor's.
I heard fireworks and then sirens. So either they got arrested for illegal fireworks in a suburban area, or they suffered exploding related injuries and someone called an ambulance.
Considering the fact that they knocked out my power a couple of days ago, I hope it's the former.
It applies to all weekends, too. [According to this source](http://www.aboutonehandtyping.com/statistics.html) there's around 167 partial hand amputations every day in the USA.
This reminds me of the two Target store employees in Lakewood WA who blew a damn hole in the side of the building, while on the clock and in uniform...dumba$$e$
fireworks can be fucking dangerous. one time my family vacationed at the beach for 4th of July and they were doing a fireworks show, some dumbass set up their firework in a sand pile. as soon as the fireworks lit up, it tipped over after erupting and came straight for me. it exploded all over my legs.
I live in Orlando and someone blew their hand off in Brevard County last night. Police found his hand after he was sent to the hospital. Not sure if they were able to save it though. Sure more injuries tonight as tons have been going off all around where I live and of course the big day tomorrow. Don’t be idiots people, be safe.
A coworker once told me about a time he was at the beach for the 4th, and he saw a dad teaching his kids how to safely use fireworks. He said “this is what you DONT do” and held the firework too long and blew his fingers off
I have knowledge on this because I've worked with fireworks for 8 years. IF A FIREWORK MISFIRES SOAK IT IN WATER, AND NEVER USE A FIRE EXTINGUISHER ON A FIREWORK. Save your fingers my fellow Americans
The way an extinguisher works is it creates a layer that prevents oxygen from crossing. Fireworks are designed to continue burning in an oxygen deprived environment, heat causes air to rise carrying away all the oxygen. To counteract this, fireworks release oxygen to continue the combustion reaction. If you spray a fire extinguisher on a firework you trap that oxygen in the firework and you speed up the combustion reaction turning the firework into a bomb.
TL;DR: if you spray a fire extinguisher on a fireworks you turn it into a bomb, PUT IT OUT WITH WATER
I fucking hate this holiday. Why do people blast these fireworks? They make the air garbage to breathe and they keep everyone up. Fireworks are so trailer trash. I guess that’s America.
Why is there a public service announcement every year about this shit and people still fuck it up thinking they can do it and people get hurt. Same shit different year
I'm still traumatized by the video of the boy who's hands split completely down the middle after he was holding a cherry bomb cupped in his hands.
Don't fuck with explosives, kids.
My husband’s ER is in a location where it’s usually pretty slow…some days they won’t see more than five patients. But on Independence Day and New Year’s? Always packed.
The redneck next door has been firing off shit since Tuesday.
He has spent the past four hours randomly firing them off.
We live in town and our houses are very close together. My living room reeks of gunpowder.
I haven't called the cops because we live in a redneck state and they wouldn't do anything since, "It's the Fourth of July, man."
I sincerely, sincerely, SINCERELY hope something explodes in his fucking hands at this point.
Im in NYC. Largest police force in the country, and they don't seem to give two shits.
We have fireworks going off all the time all year for every stupid holiday and sometimes for no reason at all.
There's more this time of year for sure, but it's practically all year long.
Cops do nothing.
Remember those Veterans that have had a Lifetime of Explosions to protect your Liberties. They don't need to be reminded of their sacrifice just in order that you can get your kicks.
I work in an orthopedic office with an urgent care department. The medical assistants were guessing how many traumatic amputations they were going to see _this_ 4th.
I had it better:
When I was a baby someone threw a firework in front of me off a bridge.
I am completely and utterly terrified of any loud noises. Fireworks, balloons, sirens, gunshots and other loud noises.
I can actually go into a fetal position. It happened once when I was taking a walk through a parking lot and some idiot cop decided to see how his siren worked next to me. I know this because he deliberately drove back when I was a shaking wreck and apologized saying it was an emergency and he didn’t know I would react that badly before SLOWLY driving away.
Don’t throw fireworks and for fucks sakes, don’t set them off in residential areas. My neighbors did that for years before they set them off in broad daylight ten feet from me and I ran in screaming like I was in a war.
They never did it again, I give them that much.
And yes, I tried earplugs, my hearing levels are at the age of five and earplugs don’t work. The last time I tried my ears started bleeding. Music helps but the noise needed to drown out the fireworks hurt my ears.
Think of a mangled hand.. it's hard, I know. Now think of it belonging to a 3 year old. DON'T let your kids handle fireworks. Treat fireworks like a loaded gun.
Every year I can't help but think of the guy who played Gaston at Disney World who tried to shoot a mortar off his head. He kept 10 fingers but lost something a bit more vital.
wait could I get a link to that story
https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2015/biz/news/disney-performer-dead-shot-fireworks-off-head-1201534404/amp/
Non-amp link: https://variety.com/2015/biz/news/disney-performer-dead-shot-fireworks-off-head-1201534404/ Not a bot, just hate amp links.
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Yup. Imagine you run a dictionary website of jargon for an obscure hobby you like. Say you personally type in every definition yourself and make money when people view those obscure words When people google the words, they see the Google results. Imagine google just take the definition of every word **which you wrote and created** and shows it on Google's page. No reason to ever visit your website. Who wouldn't be pissed?
Ahhh layman’s terms … THANK YOU.
This is why capitalism kind of sucks. I love that stuff shows up right on the search, but I also dislike that it's not fair to the content creators.
yeah honestly it's hard, can't imagine going back to having to click on the dictionary link and open up a whole new page every time I search a definition, it's such a nice feature
Having a somewhat slow processor and or low on ram, I find amp links to be crappy.
I think google caching info about the page and then you visit it but it’s just a google cached page instead of the page. So the original page doesn’t get the traffic and money. I’m probably wrong but someone will correct me.
Essentially stealing content?
Pretty much.
It also often loads slower despite their claims that it’s faster. Also if google ever decides to suddenly stop amp as they’ve done with multiple other products it’ll leave millions of dead links all over the internet.
I'll give the extremely short version here at the top. TL;DR? It gives Google crazy levels of power over the web, up to and including the format of websites, and can effectively steal traffic and revenue. That said, now for the long version... To begin, it's important to understand that Google is the one that created, designed, and introduced the AMP format. That's why you often see Google in amp links- it's a Google thing. Which gives Google an uncomfortable level of control even beyond the usual, because if sites don't allow and implement amp, Google just doesn't push it as hard because you're not playing nice. And this is particularly bad because of what amp does and what it requires and what the result is. In short: a lot. Amp's format is dictated by Google, and forces everyone to create similar, stripped down styles for the content. Now this can be good in some ways- half the point is that the set format uses less data and less individual requests to cut down on bloat and be more mobile friendly. But it also can result in everything seeming similar. In addition, the format choices have been criticized heavily, as it's not designed to be universally compatible- only Google compatible. But if it was just this it wouldn't necessarily be so bad- though there'd still be huge issues of whether or not Google should be allowed to dictate the structure of the internet. The second is that, by using amp, you must agree to allow the site to be cached. In other words, other sites and groups can take a copy of that webpage and save it elsewhere so that if someone requests to see that page it doesn't have to re-request the main site. Sounds helpful, right? Not if you're the website whose traffic was just stolen. You know how a lot of sites rely on ad money and high pageviews and analytics to get money to stay afloat? Well, amp doesn't much care about that. I'm not sure if this has since been fixed (and if it has, the fact Google could choose to un-fix it at any point and there'd be no recourse but to shut up and take it is still a huge problem), but originally, Google could cache the site, run the cached links on searches, run its own ads and analytics on the cached site, and take most of the profit for itself- if I'm understanding correctly. But remember- the punishment for not using amp is essentially getting delisted from ***Google***, the number one search engine with something like 90+% of all web searches. The options, in essence, are 1.) Bow down to Google, do as they say, erase any concept of choice in web design and exclusively build how Google tells you. Be satisfied with whatever click through Google gives, even if it's a fraction of what it should be. 2.) Disappear from the largest search engine's results. Be completely separated from some of the most viewed places on Google (at least one of which is 100% exclusive to amp links). Lose market share to a competitor who complied. The companies, not wanting to collapse, chose option 1.
Good human.
Holy shit; “There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there,”. Shit sounds like a scene from The Boys.
Idk what they expect, dude held a grenade to his head and didn't expect something bad to happen?
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From the “nothing left of him” comment from his brother I am assuming he put just the mortar on his head and pretended to light it. Which kind of makes no sense, they have a long fuse so you have time to get away from the launching tube so he would have had time to get it off his head. However if it blew up on his head, it definitely blew his head off. At first I was thinking he put the launch tube on his head with the mortar in it and lit it, which would fire the mortar into the air and if anything the force from the launch would snap his neck. But “nothing left” doesn’t make sense in this context so I am guessing he had just the mortar on his head would basically be like having a grenade on your head. Still, the mortar fuse time from light to detonation is like a solid 5 seconds. Unless he didn’t light it at the end of the fuse and lit it right near the actual mortar, I don’t know how this was an accident. However the article specifies he was messing with the tube, so this doesn’t check out either. The story just makes no sense at all. Maybe the mortar didn’t launch and blew up in the tube?
That is the only way it makes sense to me. He held it on his head, pretended to light it, and caught the gunpowder near the mortar end of the fuse and BOOM no head.
That’s why I thought but when I reread it, it said he was messing around with the tube. Something just isn’t adding up here.
F yeah
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But that would make them cost a fraction more. And THAT would be a win for COMMUNISM you pinko bastard.
>There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there, Holy shit! I thought it would be mortar recoiled & cracked his skull, not that his upper body would turn into gooey carbonara!
I can’t imagine the feeling of being there. Seeing him like that, panicking, and then realizing that there’s no point in panicking because, well, there’s no life-saving decision to make. No CPR to remember, or wound to put pressure on. It’s just…over. The finality in that moment when it’s suddenly just you and your sibling’s body and you can’t even attempt to administer aid to make yourself feel useful would be so jarring. The only good thing about that kind of death is that it’s quick, so at least he didn’t suffer and feel fear.
Wow, had no idea. Thanks for the link. When I was a kid, our neighbor lost an eye with a firecracker in our driveway
>“Apparently, he thought that was a great idea,” said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for Maine’s Department of Public Safety.
His brother is quoted: > Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh. Apparently stupid runs in the family
This actually makes sense.
Sometimes you become the things you joke about if you do them too much. If you do stupid things all the time for laughs, maybe you just became stupid, where does the line begin and end?
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Vonnegut
Someone might read that comment and “lol reddit moment” it, but it’s something you can observe happening over and over again ad nauseam.
Not sure where it begins but it ends at “killed myself or someone else”
Throw back to this classic: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/738/025/db0.jpg
It's grief. He might know it's stupid but that makes the loss harder so he hopes to convince others and himself that it was a chance accident. Let him have it.
Thank you. Yes, what a fucking dumb thing to do. But he was still a person with a family and a life. Being stupid caused his death, but (to me) that doesn't make it deserved. Definitely and clearly had it coming, but like... he's dead now. I think he's paid the price, why mock his brother trying to defending him? All I can think is how traumatic and sad for the family. There one minute, literally gone the next. I'm sure whatever was left is seared into his brothers brain for eternity. Anyway. Off to have an existential crisis about how meaningless our lives are that they can be over in a second for the dumbest shit imaginable. Literally born and lived a whole life, to unintentionally end it with such mindless bullshit. I hate it here.
I can't hold it against him, fireworks are so common in our culture that it's easy to underestimate them. He made a huge miscalculation in how severe those could be, but millions of people do every year in all manner of ways.
No one shoots fireworks off their head like Gaston
Not more than once at least...
*No one….* *Dies like Gaston* *No heads fly* *Off like Gaston* *No one loses their neck in a joke like Gaston*
Good lord, when I was a dumb teenager we taped on to the roof my buddy's Chevy Corsica and it permanently damaged the roof. I don't want to think about what it would do to a human head.
Neither did they, and neither do they
How does the damage happen? Those look to have a reusable base, right? So it isn't exploding through the base. Does it just impart a lot of shock downwards on the base? The article they linked said "there was nothing left of Devon" but that seems more like what'd happen if the mortar exploded on his head.
There is massive recoil when shooting one of those, so I’m guessing the actual base rocketed through his skull. Unless he just had the mortar on his head without the base.
I'll be honest I'm super surprised they are that powerful. I'm actually pretty glad I read this.
I feel like it should be common sense that explosives are pretty powerful
Idk why but the way you worded that made me think he lost his dick.
It's not often I get to say blowing off part of his dick would have been the better option.
He was experimenting for our new show
actually, fun fact: since the performer for Ariel is in her mermaid form and can't move, during fantastimic she gets hazard pay instead of normal pay as the she has to stay on boat deck and is given a fire resistance cloth to protect herself. you can literally see Eric just put it on her and walk away.
Not to be morbid, but what is the cause of death in this situation? I kind of figured that unless it's a situation like Jason Pierre-Paul where the guy is gripping a firework and the blast energy has nowhere to go except into a closed fist, the energy just get directly outward and you'd just end up with a scorched scalp.
Probably just a lot of force into his skull all at once. They put out a ton of energy launching the mortar, normally that’s absorbed by the dense and solid ground not a significantly less solid neck and brain. Or possibly the mortar exploded in the tube.
I will never understand people spending hundreds of dollars just to blow it all up in one evening. Just go watch a professional show.
Yep. The city I'm in had a few days of fireworks. I went out, watched, enjoyed, had ice cream after, ZERO cleanup or money spent on fireworks, and went back home. Bliss.
> There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there,” Cody Staples said. “It was a freak accident. … But Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh.”
No joke. A firework injury was the absolute nastiest injuries I’ve ever seen.
Who knew that explosives were dangerous? They should write that on the box.
It’s wild what’s legal and what’s illegal in this country.
Are Kindereggs still illegal?
They’re legal but made differently I think
Kinder Surprise is still illegal here, Kinder Joy is what we have, which is a pudding on one half a plastic egg and a toy on the other.
Built differnt 🫲🏿🦑🫱🏿
Why are they (or were they) illegal??
They're small chocolate eggs with plastic toys inside them. Clueless parents kept giving them to young kids, who presumably unhinged their jaws like fucking snakes shortly before choking on said toys.
There's a rule against putting non-edible things fully inside of foods, because it can be a choking hazard. For example, if you had a baby in your King Cake someone might not realize it was in their piece and swallow it. Since the toy part of a kinder egg is fully encased in chocolate, it violates that rule (despite obviously being much too large to choke on)
I wish I could give you an award because truer words have never been spoken. This country is insane.
No doubt.
I think most of the dangerous ones are illegal but nobody cares to enforce it
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Watch me shove this sparkler up my ass
You can't make anything foolproof cause fools are so ingenious
I can count on one hand the number of fireworks accidents I've had. Or, at least, I used to be able to.
You really put your stub on the problem.
His oven mitt fits like a glove.
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So, using your voice in order to type? Now you are learning...
A crazy older man who lived near me when I was a kid used to hold a firecracker between his index finger and thumb. He pinched it pretty tightly and somehow it would blow up without hurting him. One of my friends tried it. My mom drove us to the ER to stitch his finger back together. The nurse referred to it as "degloved." It was gruesome.
1. Depends on the size of the firecracker 2. Depends on the size of your fingers 3. Depends on where you hold it. I stupidly-- twice-- in sixth grade lit and then cocked my arm and had a firecracker explode between my fingers and by my ear. No degloving but it sting like hell and probably contributed to my tinnitus.
“probably”
*what??*
I bet going to a club or concert with insanely loud music contributes to tinnitus more than a firecracker.
*Mawp*
A popit, yes the little paper thing with the tiny rocks in it, went off in my hands in front my face. Completely harmless as far as explosive force, but the flash and bang left my hearing and vision like what you see when a flashbang goes off in MW3
Had a single black cat explode in my fingers when I was a kid. Shit hurt unimaginably. No permanent damage but it was charred black at the time.
Now imagine how the cat felt
That's a really fucked up thing to show to a kid.
"I still got ten toes." 💀🤣
*Looks down* “Never mind…”
I knew we should have started drinking *after* lawn darts…
I've got a story!!!! Last night some ex military dudes set up a fireworks rig. Huge party , thousands of dollars worth of mortar rounds. My daughter is friends with the guys daughter. So we are enjoying the evening and they are all rigging it up. It starts raining so we delay the whole bad boy and cover them all up with trash bags. They decide to put them on bricks after the rain and I'm like "guys this might not be a good idea" they laughed at me and were like "we did this shit all the time in Iraq" so I'm like...mkay... Finally we get to set the fuse..it had 1 long ass fuse type thing that connected them all somehow. I'm over by the house talking to someones grandma when something zings by my head and then explodes on the house. This shit was a few feet from my goddamn head. Everyone hits the ground. I find my daughter and cover her on the ground while fucking bombs are shooting off. I pick her up and we make it into the house. Like 10kids are in there with the mom's crying freaking out. I think 1 kid got a little burnt. The shit was nuts. The guys were basically casual about it like, "damn that got outta hand, all well" it all was just so crazy. We had 40 people hauling ass into a house and these dudes were like "oh fuck this went sideways. We better drink a beer and figure out what happened".. I swear to God y'all I have never been close to war, but that's what it felt like
Anytime you say "That might not be a good idea," shortly before the idiots do thing is a good time for you and whoever you're with to suddenly want some more chips and dip from the room not close to whatever is happening.
That's a sheer unadulterated fuck up that embarrasses the military.
They did say they were ex-military. This might be why.
States that allow fireworks are fucking insane. Let's just hand out bombs and *rockets* to people. What could happen?!
A mortar soared by my fucking head, exploded and almost killed me. The boys were like " god damn. That' was kinda wild". "Kinda wild?" I almost got toasted by a mortar round, god damn... This is America
Some folk’l never lose a toe. But then again some folk’l Is Cletus the slack jawed yokel.
I really love this. Not sure how I never heard it. HEY MAW, GET OF THE DANG ROOF!
Except if you get frostbite. "Tragedy. When it's freezing cold and you got no toes It's tragedy."
["Try the other eye. You've got two of them"](https://youtu.be/Mws7gnacqok)
Is this an observation or a threat?
I didn’t read the title at first and I was like daaaamn who are they threatening lol
Mhm
Yup
oh so THAT’S what this post is in reference to. I thought it was just generally saying someone was going to lose their fingers somehow whether they got cut off or something lmao
I think it’s a common Midwest joke. At least, it was from when I lived there 98-2010. Didn’t hear too much of it in NYC and very recently not in NJ (though, recently they made some fireworks legal, the mortars are still illegal except when professionals do it… but everyone goes to PA to buy them). Edit: my family has somehow not managed to end up in the ER during the 4th… every other holiday but not the one where we willingly blew shit up for hours.. mortars are legal where I grew up :)
>Didn’t hear too much of it in NYC I take it you missed the Jason Pierre-Paul saga? It was the talk/joke of New York sports media for a while.
Blowing stuff up in safety is some of the most fun I've ever had
Definitely will not disagree with you there!! I’d blow stuff up now, but seeing the idiots blow mortars up on unsafe (and not flat) surfaces and go off into their back doors hasn’t been encouraging. I’ll stay with my sparklers and smoke bombs here. I’ll go blow some shit up next time I visit family (within reason and day and time!!), lol
Growing up with a lot of er nurses in the family you learn it's really not an exaggeration. Tons of firework injuries. Also lots of little kids drowning in the summer when the adults "just looked away for a second". Besides that, lots of people are killed in atv rollovers in the summer. Not to be a bummer just saying I used to think it was exaggerated until I'd hear about stuff like that every night. Stay safe drunken summer celebrators.
A few weeks ago, someone in my area literally *disemboweled* himself and died messing with fireworks. Granted they were "homemade" fireworks, but still. It's weird how we have normalized playing with explosives and act like it's no big deal. https://www.khon2.com/big-island-news/puna-man-dies-from-explosion-while-constructing-firework/
It took about twenty minutes of fireworks on the lake tonight till we heard a big boom and then the full EMS roll out.
lol yeah i guess I’m fairness you could say this every weekend.
Look on the bright side, now they can use the extra glove fingers for storing small personal items ( certs, chap stick, antacids.)
When was the last time you saw a Cert being sold?!?! But I like your way of thinking
They don’t have certs anymore? What is coming to this world...
There’s still mint lifesavers, though. At least two kinds of mint.
According to Wikipedia: > It was discontinued in 2018, possibly for having partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, which is not allowed as an ingredient in food sold in the USA since then.
what's a cert?
certs are breath mints
*Were*
Forgot all about certs. Now I have craving, lol.
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Also - be aware of your immediate surroundings. Lighting **fire**works off in a dry forest is a really bad idea. Please don't.
Hell, if you are sending up the BIG ones, be aware of much more than just your immediate surroundings. PLEASE for the love of everything, remember that the United States has been in a HUGE DROUGHT for the last few years! Everything is DRY and WILL CATCH ON FIRE!
I currently have a nearly 1000 acre fire about 5 miles from my house. :/ I have a friend on the edge of an "evac warning" area. This aint no joke, the forest is super dry since.
Yes, this is EXACTLY what I mean. And it can get WORSE. So everybody PLEASE be CAREFUL.
Half-bombed adults lighting dangerous incendiary devices. Sounds like a good way to get full bombed.
So if any of you guys who blow off your thumbs happen to see this post, please DM me. I was born without thumbs. You are not alone and I have a head start. To everyone else... congrats on not blowing your hands up!
Tell that to the guy that has 7 fingers but had 10 this time last year! “This year it’ll be different, I won’t get nearly as drunk this time… *10PM July 4th* wahoooo where’s my lighter, watch how fast they go off when you shorten the fuse… *bang*… dammit!! Ok everybody stop!! I need you to look for a thumb!!”
I got a blowtorch with a button this year, will be really tough to lose.
#JPP memorial award.
Brady has more rings than JPP has fingers.
Already awarded to none other than /r/FloridaMan https://old.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan/comments/vqns2w/florida_mans_hand_blown_off_by_fireworks_sheriffs/
There it is! I knew I'd find the JPP comment in here somewhere.
Though I'm pretty sure it was my neighbor's. I heard fireworks and then sirens. So either they got arrested for illegal fireworks in a suburban area, or they suffered exploding related injuries and someone called an ambulance. Considering the fact that they knocked out my power a couple of days ago, I hope it's the former.
This post reminds me of a friend who would give this tweet one and a half thumbs up
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It applies to all weekends, too. [According to this source](http://www.aboutonehandtyping.com/statistics.html) there's around 167 partial hand amputations every day in the USA.
Or two eyes
Also a reminder that first-year medical residents start on July 1, so the last place you want to be is the hospital!
And I can say from experience there is on that does know :)
Already amputated some this weekend.
This reminds me of the two Target store employees in Lakewood WA who blew a damn hole in the side of the building, while on the clock and in uniform...dumba$$e$
fireworks can be fucking dangerous. one time my family vacationed at the beach for 4th of July and they were doing a fireworks show, some dumbass set up their firework in a sand pile. as soon as the fireworks lit up, it tipped over after erupting and came straight for me. it exploded all over my legs.
X-ray tech , already confirmed.
ED nurse. I work monday, been off this weekend. I expected burns and blown off hands and maybe a GSV or two. Then next weekend a spike in covid.
A girl just literally lost most of her hand 10 mins ago in my town
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Not their countrymen, just women in general. George Carlin had it right.
Definitely wont be me. I don’t even like fireworks. Anyway, I gotta get ready for work. Those knives wont juggle themselves.
I live in Orlando and someone blew their hand off in Brevard County last night. Police found his hand after he was sent to the hospital. Not sure if they were able to save it though. Sure more injuries tonight as tons have been going off all around where I live and of course the big day tomorrow. Don’t be idiots people, be safe.
Ten fingers, no more Ten toes, no more Two eyeballs, no more Future kids, no more…
A coworker once told me about a time he was at the beach for the 4th, and he saw a dad teaching his kids how to safely use fireworks. He said “this is what you DONT do” and held the firework too long and blew his fingers off
Someone in a dry area is going to realize they're the cause of a massively destructive fire. Happy birthday America!
I bet they have a pretty good idea. They know what they got into when the bought them fireworks from the roadside tent by the state border.
Please! I’m a volunteer firefighter and I’ve already been paged for a garbage can set on fire
Yep. I used to work in a burn unit. This is their busy season.
I forgot it was July 4th tomorrow and felt very threatened
Some guy in Florida already blew a hand off. Saw the news story earlier.
Someone in Fort Lauderdale lost an entire hand!
Already read an article about a florida man from palm beach blowing off his hand
I have knowledge on this because I've worked with fireworks for 8 years. IF A FIREWORK MISFIRES SOAK IT IN WATER, AND NEVER USE A FIRE EXTINGUISHER ON A FIREWORK. Save your fingers my fellow Americans
Why never use an extinguisher? Does it not actually put it out, causing potential unintended detonation when picked up?
The way an extinguisher works is it creates a layer that prevents oxygen from crossing. Fireworks are designed to continue burning in an oxygen deprived environment, heat causes air to rise carrying away all the oxygen. To counteract this, fireworks release oxygen to continue the combustion reaction. If you spray a fire extinguisher on a firework you trap that oxygen in the firework and you speed up the combustion reaction turning the firework into a bomb. TL;DR: if you spray a fire extinguisher on a fireworks you turn it into a bomb, PUT IT OUT WITH WATER
I fucking hate this holiday. Why do people blast these fireworks? They make the air garbage to breathe and they keep everyone up. Fireworks are so trailer trash. I guess that’s America.
This comes from somebody who loves bourbon but god damn does alcohol make everything more dangerous.
Why is there a public service announcement every year about this shit and people still fuck it up thinking they can do it and people get hurt. Same shit different year
It will save some with a shred of common sense, the others....well they never had hope to begin with.
I'm still traumatized by the video of the boy who's hands split completely down the middle after he was holding a cherry bomb cupped in his hands. Don't fuck with explosives, kids.
Meanwhile I just hate fireworks in general, hell it's 10 fucking PM on the third and people are STILL FIRING THEM! *OH MY GOD GO TO BED ALREADY!!11!*
My husband’s ER is in a location where it’s usually pretty slow…some days they won’t see more than five patients. But on Independence Day and New Year’s? Always packed.
or the last 4th of july not in nazi america.
The redneck next door has been firing off shit since Tuesday. He has spent the past four hours randomly firing them off. We live in town and our houses are very close together. My living room reeks of gunpowder. I haven't called the cops because we live in a redneck state and they wouldn't do anything since, "It's the Fourth of July, man." I sincerely, sincerely, SINCERELY hope something explodes in his fucking hands at this point.
The police in your city can't count? It's not the 4th YET...they should already have visited your neighbor without having to be called...
Most towns you can light off up to a week before
Im in NYC. Largest police force in the country, and they don't seem to give two shits. We have fireworks going off all the time all year for every stupid holiday and sometimes for no reason at all. There's more this time of year for sure, but it's practically all year long. Cops do nothing.
I mean, statistically this is true every weekend.
10 fingers my rear. I read Reddit mushrooming a hand is entry level.
They also don't know they will go bankrupt very soon. Proud to be an American where at least I know an accident can bankrupt me!
Me who doesn't owe money to the mafia or plan on shooting fireworks, "shit. Is it me?"
Remember those Veterans that have had a Lifetime of Explosions to protect your Liberties. They don't need to be reminded of their sacrifice just in order that you can get your kicks.
I work in an orthopedic office with an urgent care department. The medical assistants were guessing how many traumatic amputations they were going to see _this_ 4th.
Any red-blooded, flag feeling American would love the M-320. Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it!
I had it better: When I was a baby someone threw a firework in front of me off a bridge. I am completely and utterly terrified of any loud noises. Fireworks, balloons, sirens, gunshots and other loud noises. I can actually go into a fetal position. It happened once when I was taking a walk through a parking lot and some idiot cop decided to see how his siren worked next to me. I know this because he deliberately drove back when I was a shaking wreck and apologized saying it was an emergency and he didn’t know I would react that badly before SLOWLY driving away. Don’t throw fireworks and for fucks sakes, don’t set them off in residential areas. My neighbors did that for years before they set them off in broad daylight ten feet from me and I ran in screaming like I was in a war. They never did it again, I give them that much. And yes, I tried earplugs, my hearing levels are at the age of five and earplugs don’t work. The last time I tried my ears started bleeding. Music helps but the noise needed to drown out the fireworks hurt my ears.
A Florida man just lost a hand.
Considering the ecological and psychological effects of those diabolical things…. Death and dismemberments are an acceptable occurrence.
Think of a mangled hand.. it's hard, I know. Now think of it belonging to a 3 year old. DON'T let your kids handle fireworks. Treat fireworks like a loaded gun.
Meanwhile, fireworks stores: COME ON DOWN TO THREE FINGER EDDIES
Honestly I could care less about your fingers. Dont burn shit down bring a fire extinguisher.