QUOTE (Fluffybunny @ Jul 3 2008, 11:19 AM)

These kind of people are pretty much job security for the Fire/Rescue business. You would be surprised at how big a percentage of people we deal with are darwin award winners...maybe you wouldnt...
Being the 4th of July, this is a perfect example that happens every single year, no exceptions...alcohol+gunpowder+fire+idiots=busy fluffybunny.
Last year we had a guy that was launching potatos out of a potato gun using the flammable aspects of the propellent in hair spray to send the potato chunks out of the end of the PVC tube about 100 feet or so. After 3 or 4 beers someone got the idea to launch the potato by using an M-80(A quarter stick of dynamite-which they though would send it several hundred feet). So this guy has a buddy drop an M-80 in the tube he has resting on his thigh/groin area and then slams the potato down into the end of the tube and waits for the bang...
...the bang came...It was the bang of a frag grenade as the pvc pipe exploded in his hands(and groin)
...He lost a few fingers, a couple of testicles and...well, he will be sitting down to pee from now on...
His buddies spent the time until we got there trying to find his fingers...and stuff...
Sad part was that he was actually a really nice guy, just drunk and had a supid moment. I spent the drive to the hospital doing 90 miles an hour in the back of an ambulance with one of my hands trying to stop the bleeding of his hand and another trying to stop the bleeding of his groin...The guy nearly died from losing so much blood...it was bad. He was just one of 17 calls that day.
This kind of stuff happens thousands of times over every day, but on and around the 4th, peoples idiot drive goes through the roof...
nothing better than spending independance day blowing off bits of your body..
land of the free..
does that mean brain free??!? lol. silly bugger