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re: Fireworks injuries and amputations

Posted on 7/10/26 at 12:56 pm to
Posted by Sams Crow
Member since Apr 2026
342 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 12:56 pm to
Some of our boy scout troop once had night time m80/ash can war in upstate NY, winging them and ducking behind trees. Rangers showed up thinking poachers. Good times.
Posted by BTROleMisser
Murica'
Member since Nov 2017
15224 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 1:25 pm to
quote:

She was sitting on a porch very far away, with headphones on. I think she'll be ok, but it was pretty bad, had to have surgery.


Jesus... Poor girl. That's crazy.
Posted by dat yat
Chef Pass
Member since Jun 2011
5009 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 1:39 pm to
We shot fireworks at each other all the time growing up and no one got hurt. We were just lucky though. Years later my little cousin (big ole baw now) lost an eye in a bottle rocket war in Orange TX when he was a kid. I didn't let my kids do some of the shite I did and unsupervised fireworks was one.
Posted by ReauxlTide222
St. Petersburg
Member since Nov 2010
91983 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 1:44 pm to
I don’t like it when someone gets hurt.

But the videos of huge fireworks going rogue and exploding in neighborhoods and then it turning apocalyptic hit me just right. I find them absolutely hilarious. Has to be something about the timing of it always being funny and then it becoming 100x worse than I could have even imagined
Posted by cwil177
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2011
29967 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 1:59 pm to
My first overnight shift as an intern was on Fourth of July weekend. Had a guy come in who blew off most of his hand. Turns out meth, alcohol, and explosives are a bad combination. Craziest part was his girlfriend’s young daughter was nearby and came in with two puncture wounds to her leg. X-ray showed … two of his fingers.
Posted by ReauxlTide222
St. Petersburg
Member since Nov 2010
91983 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 2:34 pm to
Oh my gosh

That makes for a rough evening
Posted by ELVIS U
Member since Feb 2007
11863 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 2:37 pm to
Definitely worth a few digits
Posted by Grievous Angel
Tuscaloosa, AL
Member since Dec 2008
10955 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 2:57 pm to
I worked with a lady whose kid got shot in the face with a mortar.

He died.

Posted by Flapjacks
Member since Oct 2023
277 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 6:04 pm to
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quote:
I am not a doc but I work used to work in hospitals it is absurdly tragic


Janitor?


Dr. Jan Itor
Posted by NytroBud
LaFayette
Member since Jun 2009
6183 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 6:21 pm to
I started July 5th buying next years fire works...$100.00 a month until next july 4th
Posted by DR93Berlin
Member since Jul 2020
1719 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 7:09 pm to
We used to take the sticks off bottle rockets and light them. Had a name for them, but it escapes me….
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
81764 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 7:33 pm to
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Most of these injuries occur when the first explosive is a dude


What about when the first one is a chick?
Posted by Rip Torner
Member since Jul 2023
3000 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 9:00 pm to
Had a patient come in on a random Summer night well past July 4th with third degree burns on his genitals after trying to hold a pack of roman candles while seated in a lawn chair, drunk. He sobered up real quick lol
Posted by WhoDatNC
NC
Member since Dec 2013
14433 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 10:00 pm to
We rode our bikes around at night shooting each other woth roman candles and bottle rockets. Would do it all over agin.
Posted by PurpleSingularity
Member since Dec 2017
2865 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 10:08 pm to
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We used to have bottle rocket wars, running around shirtless on sweltering July nights. Great fun


Would follow with a Roman candle after few bottle rockets thrown at the other group of friends….awesome summer times…no one ever got hurt
Posted by olgoi khorkhoi
priapism survivor
Member since May 2011
16928 posts
Posted on 7/10/26 at 11:26 pm to
In Fiji, they have or at least had a firecracker called a striker that you strike like a match. There were 2 sizes. If you put a medium sized pot from the kitchen onntop of the larger sized striker it would blast it about 100' into the air. They couldn't have guns there, but miniature sticks of dynamite were fine.

Man, I'd pay a lot of money to get my hands on a pack of those.
Posted by CitizenK
BR
Member since Aug 2019
16324 posts
Posted on 7/11/26 at 9:36 am to
Firecracker wars and numb hand often. Bottle rock and roman candle wars but Jart wars were more dangerous Even think fast baseball throws right in the eye weren't that bad after swelling went down.

Someone is a pussy
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