FIREWORKS SUCK

[redman555]

Was just a normal firework, one you put on the ground and light, and sparks and stuff come out the top.

-BigBOBCH

[Meatwad]

Fountain/cone?

[redman555]

Yeah a fountain.

-BigBOBCH

[grizz441]

i require photographic evidence.

[redman555]

i require photographic evidence.

I would post my hand, but I cant take the gozz off, or however you spell it. The entire top of 4 of my fingers are skinned, and my thumb is skinned on the tip.  The gozz dries on so if I pull it off it will rip the new skin off. And my face has stopped pealing and is should be healed by monday.

-BigBOBCH

[Sonicblu]

Ya banned in az , we just had massive forest fire here Sierra vista burned 50 some homes. Six homes burned down across the street from mine. Anyway they banned the fireworks display in town because of it, most people gunshy. Didn't stop a neighbor from making home made ones. Ooops he blew off half his hand, very sad fingers missing not much left but a stump.

[F22RaptorDude]

made a home made rocket launcher that goes under an air soft gun, first 2 launches were good then the third one it stuck in the tube and the bottle rocket exploded, the tube held most of the blast but it would not have mattered the second I saw it didn't come out I threw the gun to the ground and ran, guns broken because water got into the parts because the ground was a swamp. Another reason why I did it, was pouring down rain and everything was soaked, no fire risk at all.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Yes but rattler, this literally EXPLODED within a second of ignition, idk if it was the fuse or what.

-BigBOBCH

Fireworks can have defective fuses that burn instantly. That's why in Finland it's mandatory to use protective goggles when shooting fireworks. Many eye-injuries happened, usually the worst effect of mishap.

[Yeager]

get a lawyer.  damned chinese and ameri-indians are loaded $$$ these days.

[Patches1]

Redman555,

I hope your injuries heal quickly and leave no lasting impairments. Get well, soon, Sir!

<patches mounts soapbox>

I've never really understood why we teach our children to not play with fire and matches, and then, once a year tell them its OK to play with, matches and explosives. And, to top that off, we give our youngest children sparklers to play with that can burn at temperatures up to 3000 degrees Fahrenheit, and without protective equipment of any kind.

I'm not a prude; I enjoy a good fireworks show; but I leave it to the professionals to entertain me and, I'm willing to pay them for that entertainment and the margin of personal safety that allows me and my loved ones to enjoy the show injury free.

A high school classmate blew off the middle, ring, and little fingers of his left hand while making a homemade firework. He also lost his right hand at the wrist and his face and forearms were severly scarred from the burns incurred. He lost his right eye, but survived. That was the good news.

His dream was to study medicine and become a surgeon. He had the drive, the motivation, and the intelligence to succeed in his dream. That was the bad news. From this...he has yet to recover.

<patches dismounts soapbox>

[olds442]

Most states you have to be licensed to be in possesion of +3"ers, nevermind set them off.  Most people think a 6" is just a double 3"er, but it's far and not, take great caution.  Been a while, but if I recall correctly in CA you can't set off anything larger than 4" except in steel tubes.  4" and down is steel or high-desity PVC (oil/refinery industry grade).  2.5" and down is steel, HPVC, or cardboard.  They define what materials you can use for the tubes based on that they can handle the round flowerpotting (pre-detonation of the entire round in the base of the tube, all at once).  Then you have to take into account that not all mortar rounds are built the same or anywhere near properly, and that's why I haven't worked any shows in many years.

I got stuck on one show that had boxes and boxes of 7+ yo made in china 4"ers, 6"ers and 8"ers.  We made fun that some chinese fireworks are so poorly constructed because they were made by single working at home moms, cooking dinner and breast feeding a child, while hand-manufacturing fireworks on the kitchen table.  Well, this shipment we got stuck with must of been made, in the nicest terms I can think of, by one with 12 children and a very bad opium habit.  They were labeled and supposed to be pre-squibed (electric squib ignitors), most were not and had to be hand squibed.  Many couldn't be hand squibed because they weren't constructed properly (or falling apart), and it's a major fine to repack (manufacture) a mortar round in the back of a uhaul at the show site, but we had to for a couple dozen so we could put on a show (and afterwards those rounds were some of the few that worked as they should of).  It was a nightmare when it came show time, ~60 out of ~170 primed mortars failed in one way or the other: breaches, flowerpots, duds, knocked-downs (one mortar in a rack of four would breach, knocking down or ejecting unspent tubes in that rack, resulting in grounded mortars or "duds" as they got ripped from their wiring harnesses).  After playing a game of ballistic dodgeball, putting the fires out and the preliminary insurance papers filed, I told the company that if they ever would stick me in a situation like that again, to not call me, and they haven't since. 

Largest mortars I've ever worked have been 10"ers at Dodger statium, and those were always fun, especialy setting off half the car alarms in the parking lot, and one night we assume the concusion from one of the 10"ers cracked the windshield on the rental truck parked over 100 yards away.

we are licensed up to 6inchers. most of the time the cops will sit and wacth it to

[Becinhu]

we are licensed up to 6inchers. most of the time the cops will sit and wacth it to

I'm sure they are smaller.

[Babalonian]

A couple Dodger games I remember we couldn't shoot anything larger than, I think, 6"ers due to extreme fire hazard.  The larger mortars had a nasty habit of lighting up nearby eucalyptus and palm trees when the weather and conditions were right, and during those particular summers I remember the palms being so dry that a couple bettles humping in one could set it aflame.


That kinda is concerning Redman, would you say it was a bad instant fuse or that it was the entire firework including the fuse, as it sounds like it all violently detonated at once to get such a jump on you, rather than a controlled release/spurting/fountain?

[redman555]

Truthfully, it must have been both.  Cause that fuse was in the firework before I could even turn.


-BigBOBCH

[Belial]

sounds like you lit toilet paper painted green lol....seriously though that can happen to anyone