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Heard it on the news this morning. Would not be surprised if there was a lawsuit in the works. Mortars are the awesomeness.
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I had a call once that after a 3 day drinking benge a guy said, "hold my beer" and TRIED to walk across a bonfire pit that had been burning all weekend.
The flames where low but the heat from the metal frames from mattresses and couches they burned were around 1500 degrees or more. Anyway, he made it about 3 feet and sank to his nuts. He lost his testies,participle, and toes but lived.
Worst pain I've ever seen anyone in.Comment
Damn grammar Nazis must have got to him.Originally posted by FunFordCobra View PostOriginally posted by PGreenCobraOriginally posted by Trip McNeelyComment
Wondering if the kid put the mortar in the tube upside down.Comment
Just to add to this.
Jean Pierre Paul(SP?), from the New York Giants, almost blew off his hand too.
Oh and he is NOT under contract.Comment
And, continuing the trend of blaming others because an moron did something idiotic.....
Days after her*son was killed instantly after setting off a firework on top of his head, a Maine mother is calling for stricter laws on who can have access to the explosives.
Police say that on the 4th of July, Devon Staples, 22, was drinking with friends in the town of Calais when the accident happened with a mortar tube. In the wake of her son's death, Kathleen Staples wants to see lawmakers consider requiring safety training courses before letting someone use fireworks. "At least it'd be a little bit more than, 'Here you go,'"*she toldThe Associated Press.*"That's an explosive. They didn't just hand me a license and put me in the car."
Staples said she thinks her son might have thought the explosive was a "dud" that wouldn't hurt him, but State Fire Marshal Joe Thomas said that since the mortar had already been used once before, he "can't imagine someone would anticipate that it was a dud." This was the first fireworks-related death to occur in Maine since they were legalized in 2012, and Rep. Michel Lajoie (D) said he is considering introducing a measure next year to repeal the law. Lajoie, a retired fire chief, said he can already hear the arguments from people opposing a ban. "They're going to say, 'Well, you can't regulate stupidity'...and it's true, you can't," he told*AP. "But the fact of the matter is you have to try something. I'm not giving up."Comment
One account of the story I heard, was that he had stuffed more than just a mortar shell in the tube. And with everything in jammed in there the mortar could launch. So because he's an idiot, his mom wants a law changed? Sorry for your loss... but the most this should be is a warning to the next genius who thinks about trying it..Comment
Its called a fucking mortar shell, everyone knows what they do, even kids. I still stand behind pulling warning labels off everything.Comment
HEAR HEAR! I think we need to allow Darwin to do a bit more work.Originally posted by Scott Mc View PostComment
Not trying to be a dick but come on! I learned a lot of things the hard way and I know others have too. My prize is life lessons and still being alive somehow.Comment
nah. they just removed his index finger and he had a broken thumb.
that pic is pretty nastyComment
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Damn, that's pretty gnarly.Comment
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