Very sad for his family and friends.
At our previous home, we had a next door neighbor whose adult children went crazy with fireworks every July 4th - terrorizing our dogs BTW. They bought tons of powerful fireworks, even staging them on plywood boards - it was a two day preparation. After listening to it for hours after dark every July 4th, we'd find shrapnel all over our roof and yard the next day. We really liked them 364 days/year, and their adult children didn't live at home, for whatever reason it was a tradition for them to shoot off fireworks at our neighbors (their parents) house. One year I found something smoldering in our front yard and went out with a hose to douse it, and they could see I wasn't happy. The next morning they were out picking up their debris from our yard. Again, we liked them all, just hated their July 4th fireworks tradition.Can you imagine being the neighbor across the street, and looking forward to this every year from these folks, launching things towards your property.
Ok I have another one for you, watch till the end...
(sorry i only found it on twitter).
What gets me, is this is their own video from their own security cam, so they not only created this debacle, but decided to share it somewhere public.
At our previous home, we had a next door neighbor whose adult children went crazy with fireworks every July 4th - terrorizing our dogs BTW. They bought tons of powerful fireworks, even staging them on plywood boards - it was a two day preparation. After listening to it for hours after dark every July 4th, we'd find shrapnel all over our roof and yard the next day. We really liked them 364 days/year, and their adult children didn't live at home, for whatever reason it was a tradition for them to shoot off fireworks at our neighbors (their parents) house. One year I found something smoldering in our front yard and went out with a hose to douse it, and they could see I wasn't happy. The next morning they were out picking up their debris from our yard. Again, we liked them all, just hated their July 4th fireworks tradition.
Wow. We used to pack CO2 cartridges with match tips and they went off like M80s. I can't imagine a fire extinguisher.As for making your own, when I was a kid our family was out walking in our neighborhood when we heard what we thought was a transformer explosion.
Turned out several blocks away a group of teenagers was packing black powder into the body of a cut-open fire extinguisher in someone's basement...one walked downstairs, lit a cigarette, and boom!
The teen leaning over the extinguisher at the time was killed & IIRC the explosion was powerful enough to cause foundation damage to the point that the home was condemned.
I reflect on some of the things I did when I was much younger and just cringe too...The stupid shall be punished.
I should be on the Darwin list but somehow managed to live through all my stupid.
The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged two men this weekend in connection with a house explosion that killed 4 people.
Yes, but it was photographed by a SimpliSafe security camera. No doubt that saved them. Right?
When I was about 5 yrs old I found a 22 cal shell on the ground at a small farm. It seemed to me the thing to do was put the shell on the sidewalk and hit it with a hammer. BANG! it blew two holes in the smashed casing and the lead bullet stayed intact. No harm done.
My mama always told me: Stupid is as stupid does.Man dies after lighting firework on his head
When I was at the Naval Academy, I had a roommate who was as weird as me. Our room was called the weird room. We tried a lot of stupid things, any of which could have earned us a Darwin Award.
We also used a car battery to power a hydrolosis rig in our shower to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. We collected the gasses in garbage bags over a few days. When we thought we had enough, we decided to tape the garbage bags to a long metal pole and stick them out the window and light them. We used toilet paper as a fuse. The oxygen one was a dud. The hydrogen one was quite enrgetic.
..... you could cut the ends off of strike-anywhere matches and use them as "explosives."
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We used to stick match heads into the hollow cup shaped pellets for our Crossman pellet guns. When the pellet hit a hard object like a piece of wood, it exploded on impact.My favorite thing as a kid was to take those and put about 12 wrapped in aluminum foil very tightly. Then smash them between 2 rocks. A large amount of smoke was generated.