Author Topic: Be careful with fireworks (Read 452 times)

funkedup · « **on:** July 02, 2003, 01:31:54 PM »

Safety First!
http://www.sonic.net/~brucel/explosivegraphics.html

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #1 on:** July 02, 2003, 01:41:31 PM »

The only thing legal in my area now are sparklers and fountains...

There are some really, really, really, really stupid people in this country... and they come in large numbers, so look out!
-SW

Curval · « **Reply #2 on:** July 02, 2003, 01:46:17 PM »

The poor kid and his parents...the one who bit into the blasting cap.

Brutal..just freakin brutal.

Chaos68 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 02, 2003, 01:56:28 PM »

this is a good warning.... gross but a very good warning!

This is a good wake up for kids who think nothing could happen to them.

Estes · « **Reply #4 on:** July 02, 2003, 02:02:33 PM »

Although a lot of those where stupidity on their part, that last one looks extremely painful. Man, Staying away from smoke bombs now.

gofaster · « **Reply #5 on:** July 02, 2003, 02:06:39 PM »

When I was a kid, my parents had a beach place.

That beach used to be a military training ground during WW1 and WW2.

The military removed all of the ordinance and the property was put up for sale in the 1950's.

My friends and I made a hobby out of collecting .50 cal bullet fragments and rusty bomb shells.

One day we pulled a conical shell out of 12 feet of water and chipped the concretion off of it with a hammer and screwdriver, cleaned it up, and took it to school the next day for show and tell.

Then the police showed up at the school and called the bomb squad, who discovered live powder in the shell and detonated it at the local military base.

Awhile later the navy conducted some "underwater training exercises" near my parents' beach place and recovered some unidentifiable (to me anyway) objects.

I don't play with fireworks anymore.

Suave · « **Reply #6 on:** July 02, 2003, 02:21:28 PM »

Stupid things people do with pyro .
I've seen the smoke grenade injury before might even be the same guy . In the field, somebody had told this officer that if he held the smoke grenade with the spoon hooked over his hand it would flip off when he pulled the pin . He was quite irate when he woke me up .

I was covering this obstacle coarse/range once, there were these concrete bucket things in the ground where the cadre running the coarse were supposed to throw flashbang arty simulators so that nobody would get hurt . At the low crawl under barbedwire part two cadre threw two simulators in the bucket at the same time . One was thrown out by the blast of the first one and rolled right in front of this kids face who was crawling under the barbed wire. Miraculously he only suffered cornea abrasions, and some hearing loss . I could go on and on .

They should take all sixth graders on a field trip to the nearest burn unit right before they get out of school in june .

You'd be surprised how many people try to light their charcoal grills with gasoline .

qts · « **Reply #7 on:** July 02, 2003, 06:23:01 PM »

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You'd be surprised how many people try to light their charcoal grills with gasoline .

Amen. I used to do a lot of work for the local fire brigade and have seen some interesting sights. There was this safety video once where they showed a fireman, fully suited, throwing petrol onto a 'dead' fire, apparently from a safe distance. The petrol immediately ignited in a huge ball of flame and travelled back up the vapour trail and engulfed the fireman's arm.

If you think you absolutely must use petrol to restart a fire, think again.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #8 on:** July 03, 2003, 01:30:32 AM »

Im lucky I didnt kill myself by time I turned 12.

Alot of really stupid ****.

icemaw · « **Reply #9 on:** July 03, 2003, 01:39:43 AM »

Damn funked how bout a little warning of graphic pics. Yuk
That poor kid. Damn I was just going to bed too. I think I am gonna hurl

Estes · « **Reply #10 on:** July 03, 2003, 02:32:21 AM »

"Snakes and Sparklers are the only ones I like."

lol, somehow this thread reminded me of that