Blowing up mannequins on the D.C. Mall

[uggabugga]

now this looks like a fun job. be sure to check out the video.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...=.92d7135c6367

One of the few truly excellent jobs in government is being the guy at the Consumer Product Safety Commission who, every year, gets to blow up mannequins on the Mall in the interest of showing America why you should not launch professional fireworks from the top of your head.

[Brucifer]

I hope this becomes a yearly tradition along with the over flowing of the deep-fried turkey pot and the burning of the dried out Christmas tree.

[Brave New World]

I agree and so would most people with a normal IQ - "you should not launch professional fireworks from the top of your head".

What next a Government warning not to stick your genitals in to a meat slicer.

[catdad7x]

Originally Posted by Brave New World

I agree and so would most people with a normal IQ - "you should not launch professional fireworks from the top of your head".

What next a Government warning not to stick your genitals in to a meat slicer.

Don't be giving them ideas.

[Cape Cod Todd]

For every ridiculous public service safety announcement every made no matter how ridiculous it might seem there is some idiot out there that was hurt maimed of killed because they lacked the common sense gene to think in this case that it might be fun to launch a firework off your head.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by Brucifer

I hope this becomes a yearly tradition along with the over flowing of the deep-fried turkey pot and the burning of the dried out Christmas tree.

I use parts of dried up christmas trees to start fires for hot dog roasts etc....works like gasoline lol.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by Cape Cod Todd

For every ridiculous public service safety announcement every made no matter how ridiculous it might seem there is some idiot out there that was hurt maimed of killed because they lacked the common sense gene to think in this case that it might be fun to launch a firework off your head.

Reminds me of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_8...ade_discharger

Read the section under "Combat use"

[1] Some Allied infantrymen mistakenly assumed that the launcher's curve plate was propped on the leg to fire and thereafter referred to it as a "knee mortar." However, any soldier or marine who tried to fire a captured Type 89 in this fashion received a severe bruise (and sometimes a broken thigh bone) from the hefty recoil.[5]

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by Brave New World

I agree and so would most people with a normal IQ - "you should not launch professional fireworks from the top of your head".

What next a Government warning not to stick your genitals in to a meat slicer.

I think Mexico city has dozens of injuries\fatalities every year at new years from firing guns into the air.

Los Angeles has PSA's about it during celebrations due to large numbers of people that follow that tradition.

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

I use parts of dried up christmas trees to start fires for hot dog roasts etc....works like gasoline lol.

same here. i have 4 seasons worth of trees with nearly all their branches broken off.