Darwin Award Candidate

[The Annoyed Man]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/07 ... p-of-head/
Man Dies After Attempting to Shoot Fireworks From Top of Head

CALAIS, Maine (TheBlaze/AP) — A young man who was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, fatally injuring himself, authorities said Sunday.

{——SNIP——}

...Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid....

Yes, he was.

[RoyGBiv]

"Hold my beer and watch this" Platimun award winner.

RIP

[Jim Beaux]

Well ya gotta admit, at least he went out with a bang - and even better yet, one less democrat!

[mrbc]

Staples’ brother, Cody, told the New York Daily News that the incident was a freak accident when the lighter Staples was holding caused the firework to go off.

Really??
isn't that how it's supposed to work?
Maybe we need to ban those evil lighters.

[joe817]

I'm amazed at the unbelievable amount of ignorance of the dangers of setting off fireworks in people now days. I'm from a different generation that obeyed dad when he said, "fireworks are dangerous, you can get your hand blown off when you try to hold an M-80 or a Cherry Bomb. I believed him. Especially when a fast burn fuze of a 'black cat' firecracker' went off in my hand. Never again.

But a 'mortar tube'.. .on his head. Sorry buddy, but you can't fix stupid, and mixing booze and what you did got you killed. RIP.

"Staples, 22, of Calais, placed a fireworks mortar tube on his head and set it off, he said."

[Jim Beaux]

A man who died trying to launch a firework off the top of his head for the Fourth of July was the same man who played Gaston at Disney World in a video that went viral earlier this year.

http://www.12newsnow.com/story/29482821 ... k-incident

[Keith B]

A man who died trying to launch a firework off the top of his head for the Fourth of July was the same man who played Gaston at Disney World in a video that went viral earlier this year.

http://www.12newsnow.com/story/29482821 ... k-incident

I always knew cartoon characters weren't too bright. Take a look at Wyle E. Coyote and all the times he got blown up.

[misterlarry]

I can't remember where it happened but there was another story over the weekend where a 47 year old man blew his head off doing the same thing. Apparently, stupidity is not the sole domain of the young and foolish.

[TVGuy]

I'm amazed at the unbelievable amount of ignorance of the dangers of setting off fireworks in people now days.

Setting fireworks off in people is a really bad idea.

[jimlongley]

When I was a kid, my buddy was convinced that if you held a firecracker tight enough, you could keep it from going off. Luckily it was not a very large firecracker.

[ShootDontTalk]

Here's another excellent candidate:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/06/al ... latestnews" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The idiot supposedly was warned not to go swimming at 2am. He is reported as saying, "%#^* the gators, yee haw" and dove in, with predictable results.

jimlongley...you're not the only one who did strange things in your youth. I shot a BIG rattler coiled up in the middle of a caliche road with a .300 Win Mag. Unfortunately, I was within "shower range." Eeecckk. Lesson learned.

[brhalltx]

When I was a kid, my buddy was convinced that if you held a firecracker tight enough, you could keep it from going off. Luckily it was not a very large firecracker.

He wasn't holding it tightly enough.

[Oldgringo]

"Hold my beer and watch this" Platimun award winner.

RIP

What was it P. T. Barnum said about suckers being born every minute?

[Maxwell]

Here's another excellent candidate:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/06/al ... latestnews" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The idiot supposedly was warned not to go swimming at 2am. He is reported as saying, "%#^* the gators, yee haw" and dove in, with predictable results.

jimlongley...you're not the only one who did strange things in your youth. I shot a BIG rattler coiled up in the middle of a caliche road with a .300 Win Mag. Unfortunately, I was within "shower range." Eeecckk. Lesson learned.

In my late teens I watched a friend shoot an armadillo with a 12ga. it was running around his feet at the time. Talk about "shower range..." He was lucky he had high boots on or we would have been digging shot out of his shins. As it was all we found was a piece of the poor armadillo's tail...

[ShootDontTalk]

Yup. This .300 load was a hand load with a muzzle velocity of around 3300 fps. The bullet would have just zipped through the snake and kept truckin except that caliche is very soft and porous. It penetrated about a foot and a half and fragmented causing a burst like a hand grenade. I had pieces of snake guts in my hair and dripping from my face. It was a wonder it didn't kill me. It sure killed the fool out of that snake.

I was lucky Darwin didn't win the day.