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When home fireworks go wrong

Discussion in 'Political Opinions & Beliefs' started by Steve N, Jul 6, 2022.

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  1. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I don’t do fireworks at home and the below video isn’t really encouraging me to ever do so. A guy lights some fireworks by the curb while his family and friends sit around waiting to be entertained. The thing goes haywire and starts shooting flames everywhere. Instantly a mother grabs her child and shields him/her with her body. The messed up part is this group appears to have nearby a stash of fireworks that gets ignited. I think the vehicle is toast.


    https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1544490105636671488
     
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    Banned big time here. Only allowed to be handled by experts - our bush is too flammable - and when I say bush I mean forest
     
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    Judging from the commentary from the guy who clearly wasn't supervising closely enough, the kids lit off a firework improperly. It appears they tried to launch a mortar without a tube.

    Granted, fireworks arent known for having the greatest quality control, but the vast majority of fireworks accidents/injuries are still the result of improper or negligent use.
     
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    Yeap, 'cause these aren't bottle rockets. There's a lot of gunpowder there.

    I do remember the thrill as a kid to light off a firecracker, or an M-80 (IIRC), but the stuff these people are buying now is a lot larger, more complex chemicals and more bang for the money, but at god knows how many more times dangerous.

    This is a job for paid professionals, and most of their events are free to see anyway. So, it leads me to ask, how are these people able to buy thousands of dollars worth of fireworks and store it all in one place, usually in their garages, and not expect a catastrophe?
     
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    Except for that one day a year in the NT ;)
     
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    **** happens I'm afraid. That's life.
     
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    Hold my beer and watch this!!!!
     
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    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Heh, if you recall correctly about using M-80s, then todays fireworks are nothing compared to those. Those were banned quite a long time ago for being too dangerous.
     
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    And the old silver salutes.
    Then there were cracker balls which is like a snap pop on steroids. They were about the size of a dice and I believe they got rid of those because when people were throwing them at the wall or the ground they were getting blinded by the gravel.

    Here's a fun fact about the humble snap pop. It's something like 50 millionths of a gram ( don't quote me but it's equivalent to the size of a dose of LSD 25) of silver fulminate. Which is a high explosive that is incredibly unstable. If you were to have an ounce of this stuff and any one time and place you were probably playing with your life.

    The gravel of a snap pop serves two purposes
    A substrate for the silver fulminate and a frictioning agent to detonate it.

    It can go boom through friction, heat or impact.
     
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    :buggered:❗️~ Yes indeed ... always set the Deluxe Fireworks near the minivan gas tank for extra thrills and excitement !! :confuse:' :disbelief:

    { I think FatBack was around somewhere }
     
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    I can't claim credit for this one.... I was too busy crashing my motorcycle that day!
     
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    you may have noticed that we have our share of forest fires, but FREEDOM! demands that fireworks be ignited in our most sensitive areas.
     
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    did he think that red ball cap would protect him? he probably had "gut feelz" that it was not dangerous since he had no vital organs above his neck.
     
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    I don't know what the solution to incompetence is, and we see that everywhere today. The car may be covered by insurance. Better if the claim was rejected on the basis of stupidity...
    Education can be expensive.
     
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    Sounds like a penal colony.
     
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    Gun powder burn rates are relatively slow and smokeless!
     
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    I watched the video on the news. Fun stuff. It just shows that buying chinese fireworks can turn horribly wrong. On the other had, using just a touch of common sense..... My annual family event lasted approx 45 minutes. Thousands of shells lit up the sky. Only one bad box. But I agree... the van is toast.
     
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    drluggit, Jul 7, 2022
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    Same here, no fires, lots of flammable prairie, must be a common sense issue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
     
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    When I was a kid my friends would buy M-80s in NYC’s Chinatown. Yes, they were powerful and had fuses that would work under water, but the fuses weren’t consistent meaning one might burn slow and the next one might burn real fast - too fast.
     
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    "Read the instructions!? We fought a war for the right not to read the instructions!"
     
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    I sometimes go to firework shows, but I don't light anything at my house anymore. I haven't done that since I was a kid. Yeah, it was fun, but between the fire risk and the way it stresses out my dogs (and my neighbors' pets), and people in my neighborhood that I know have PTSD, I just can't do it anymore. I still fire up the grill for the 4th, but no more fireworks.
     
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    :banana:~ It's the American way — a tradition of bravery :blownose: :w00t::flagus:
     
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