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Class C fireworks AKA consumer fireworks can have some really large mortars. If you lit in on your head in the tube even if it went up in the air like it should it's still going to be like someone hitting you with a bat. Not very smart.
This is class C and about the largest you can get without a license. About half of it is powder to propel it into the air.
I'm trying to conceive of how a person "accidentally" lights an incendiary explosive device on top of their head. If you hold up a powerful firework onto the top of your head with one hand, the only way you are going to "light it up" and have it be set off and explode is by holding a flame to its igniting thread or string with your other hand. How does one accomplish this lighting-up "accidently"?
They have a protective piece of rubber or something like that covering the fuse tip, they aren't that easy to light. You have to hold lighter on it for a second or two.
I'm trying to conceive of how a person "accidentally" lights an incendiary explosive device on top of their head. If you hold up a powerful firework onto the top of your head with one hand, the only way you are going to "light it up" and have it be set off and explode is by holding a flame to its igniting thread or string with your other hand. How does one accomplish this lighting-up "accidently"?
I suspect he was doing hey-look-at-me "pretending" to set it off to gain the attention of people who were equally intoxicated.
Instead of someone saying, "Oh, good grief, put that down before you hurt yourself," I suspect they egged him on. I'm surprised theres's not a YoutTube video.
My favorite part of the story was how they didn't take the poor man to the hospital as there was nothing to take.
I'm trying to conceive of how a person "accidentally" lights an incendiary explosive device on top of their head. If you hold up a powerful firework onto the top of your head with one hand, the only way you are going to "light it up" and have it be set off and explode is by holding a flame to its igniting thread or string with your other hand. How does one accomplish this lighting-up "accidently"?
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Cody Staples, told the Boston Herald that Devon thought it was a dud and put the mortar to his head as a joke. It then exploded, Christopher said:
We’re thinking he was just waving his lighter around just joking and he might have caught part of it and just lit it wrong. The pressure from the explosion that was supposed to be 50 feet in the air, exploded directly above his head. It did not take it off. It made a ‘whump’ sound, like a failed explosion.
It appears that he already lit it and it didn't do anything, so he put the lit "dud" on his head and that's when it exploded. Wow, obviously not a smart move.
In looking at these photos of that guy, he doesn't seem like a bad person or even stupid. He was an actor at Disney World. It looks as if he had too much to drink, and then did something that went horribly wrong and got him killed. Tragic for everyone involved.
Poor guy. Yes, apparently he played Gaston at Disney World. I met Gaston last year, so I had to go back and look at my photos to make sure it wasn't the same guy. Luckily it wasn't because that would've made our photos together less funny.
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