teenage boys and prank gone wrong

redhawkk480

thats going to leave a mark

http://www.weau.com/home/headlines/Five-teenagers-hurt-in-fireworks-explosion-170982151.html

According to the Monroe Sheriffs department: Devin Johnson, Julius Julson, Steven Kelly, Tyler Foster and Kendrick Jackson where the five boys in the car. They are all 17 years old, and investigators believe they were playing with fireworks when one went off inside the car at 5 a.m. Monday

jptatum

About 10 years ago in Des Moines, IA on or about July 4 some firecrackers went off inside a van. The last I heard about it, one person was dead and two or three were still in the hospital.

andrewsw16

Teenagers, cars, fireworks, and stupidity all at the same time and place. Bad Ju-ju. My coworker had a 17 yr old son back in Virginia a few years ago. Sitting in the right front passenger seat going down the highway after buying a grocery sack full of fireworks. He had it on the floor between his knees when his cigarette ash dropped in. By the time his friend managed to slow down and get the car stopped on the side of the freeway, they had a white-hot fireball going. The driver managed to bail out with a few minor burns. My friend's son wasn't so lucky. [xx(] Third degree burns over 70% of his body. He actually managed to live (if you could call it that) for another 10 days. So many woulda, coulda, shoulda's that day. [:(]

bigoutside

75 years ago, my dad was driving around with friends lighting barrel bombs and tossing them out the window (think the real m-80's).

He 'thought' he dropped one in the floorboard of the front seat passenger. And didn't worry about it too much. He figured it would scare the driver when it went off. But he was wearing work boots. So he wasn't worried too much about personal injury.

When he felt the fuse burning through his work pants an inch or two from his crotch, he got to scrambling.

Thankfully, he got it in the floorboard. Or it would have murdered me, my sister, and my older brother 15 years before we were born.

nunn

I investigated an incident with involving some sort of grenade, maybe a flashbang, maybe an artillery simulator. 19-year-old bonehead said he found it in a rent house he was cleaning out. He was sitting in his truck and had the thing on the seat between his legs when it detonated.

He was flash burned from nipples to knees. His jeans were shredded. There was a hole in the truck seat big enough to stick both my fists in. The dashboard and windshield were broken. Fortunately, the driver's door was open, so some of the blast had a place to go.

We never did find out what the device was. He said it was a grenade, but if it was, it was not an anti-personnel fragmentation grenade, or there is no way he would have survived. The casing was fairly thin aluminum, and I only found a couple of tiny pieces of it.

I checked on the boy at the local ER. The staff had stripped him and had him on a bed, covered with a sheet. The way they had him hooked up to IVs and monitors, he really couldn't sit up, so he asked me to please check and see if his "boys" were still there and all right. I lifted the sheet and looked. They were a little cooked, but they appeared to be sound otherwise. He was relieved.

montanajoe

DANG [:0][:0]

Colonel Plink

Having been hit by fireworks while driving, I have no sympathy at all for people who misuse them.

11b6r

Have been a professional explosives engineer for over 40 years.

Fireworks scare the hell out of me. There have been more folks wounded, burned, scarred, lost fingers, eyes, etc from that stuff than there has been from commercial explosives over the past 50 years.

For one thing, we don't let too many 14 year olds play with 40% and #8 caps. [B)]

rhythm_guy

Years ago brother-in-law and I were riding around in his truck, getting some things for 4th of July pig roast. We bought some fireworks while we were out. He thought it would be funny to light one of those spinning flower things and throw it in the door of the local bar. He stopped the truck in front of the bar and proceeded to light one, and before he could get off a good throw he realized some sparks went in the box of fireworks, and there was smoke coming out of the box. He grabbed the whole thing & threw it out the drivers side window into an empty field, stomped it and went about 50 yds down the road, where we stopped and watched the whole thing burn up inside the box. A little noise, some smoke, not really much of a show. So who looks silly now?

Don McManus

Halloween night, 1974(?):

4 HS kids.

1 Ford Galaxies 500.

2 fifths of BV.

1 Case of beer.

4 dozen eggs, half a dozen of which were thrown with a window rolled up.

No injuries, but a drivers license that was confiscated through the end of the year.

mlincoln

There's a video on Liveleak of some fellow in Brazil blowing his hand off with a firework. It goes off and he turns around stunned, with only his pinkie still there.

When I think of the dumb stuff kids do, I just shudder. Good God, teenage boys are just idiots.

USN_Airdale

...they were playing with fireworks

fireworks ?? or dynamite ??

allen griggs

My coworker had a 17 yr old son back in Virginia a few years ago. Sitting in the right front passenger seat going down the highway after buying a grocery sack full of fireworks. He had it on the floor between his knees when his cigarette ash dropped in. By the time his friend managed to slow down and get the car stopped on the side of the freeway, they had a white-hot fireball going. The driver managed to bail out with a few minor burns. My friend's son wasn't so lucky. Third degree burns over 70% of his body. He actually managed to live (if you could call it that) for another 10 days. So many woulda, coulda, shoulda's that day.


Percent of body with 2nd or 3rd degree burns 70
Plus age 17

Equals 87 percent chance of death.

andrewsw16

quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
My coworker had a 17 yr old son back in Virginia a few years ago. Sitting in the right front passenger seat going down the highway after buying a grocery sack full of fireworks. He had it on the floor between his knees when his cigarette ash dropped in. By the time his friend managed to slow down and get the car stopped on the side of the freeway, they had a white-hot fireball going. The driver managed to bail out with a few minor burns. My friend's son wasn't so lucky. Third degree burns over 70% of his body. He actually managed to live (if you could call it that) for another 10 days. So many woulda, coulda, shoulda's that day.


Percent of body with 2nd or 3rd degree burns 70
Plus age 17

Equals 87 percent chance of death.

I'm really surprised he lived as many days as he did. Eventually things just started shutting down. I think his lungs went last. It really devastated his father, mother, and sister. He was a big fun loving HS football player with a nice future ahead of him.

Waco Waltz

I've had a bag or two of fireworks on the truck before with friends. We never thought of messing with them till we got to to where we would be lighting them off.

redhawkk480

no new, news updates that i could find, but i did hear that 2 of the boys where in bad enough shape that they where put into a induced coma , guess that helps handle the pain untill they start to heal , not sure how correct it is, just local talk