That so far we have not had one finger in a cooler, and zero eye injuries.
It’s still early.
That so far we have not had one finger in a cooler, and zero eye injuries.
It’s still early.
Way too early. Please report back around 11pm tonight.
You are in Florida. It will happen.
Btw, good to see you posting. Be well.
So what are the strangest and grossest jnjuries you have seen related to the 4th? Must be fireworks related.
That so far we have not had one finger in a cooler, and zero eye injuries.
It’s still early.
Way too early. Please report back around 11pm tonight.
I will be asleep by 9. I have to be in the Blood Bank tomorrow at 6:30, but I’m sure we will have at least a few injuries by the time I leave here at 7.
CC, thanks. 
So what are the strangest and grossest jnjuries you have seen related to the 4th? Must be fireworks related.
The worst was a guy that was shooting a Roman Candle at his friends. He hit one guy in his left eye. It just kept burning in the socket. He lost his eye and the surrounding tissue was burned too. The paramedics put a patch on in the field, but when the doc took the patch off in the ER you could see clear into his head, the fire destroyed the globe.
People get so stupid. Like trying to guess how fast a wick is and trying to throw a lit firecracker. Just plain stupid. The explosion takes off the finger and leaves a wreck in it’s wake. The worst are those that light the explosive, then when it doesn’t go off, they look into it. How brick headed do you have to be?
My guess is that you will have at least 2 hand injuries and one burned groin or torn sphincter due to fireworks.
Tomorrows papers will be full of “Florida Man” stories.
So what are the strangest and grossest jnjuries you have seen related to the 4th? Must be fireworks related.
The worst was a guy that was shooting a Roman Candle at his friends. He hit one guy in his left eye. It just kept burning in the socket. He lost his eye and the surrounding tissue was burned too. The paramedics put a patch on in the field, but when the doc took the patch off in the ER you could see clear into his head, the fire destroyed the globe.
People get so stupid. Like trying to guess how fast a wick is and trying to throw a lit firecracker. Just plain stupid. The explosion takes off the finger and leaves a wreck in it’s wake. The worst are those that light the explosive, then when it doesn’t go off, they look into it. How brick headed do you have to be?
When I was young we lived by a school field, surrounded by forest. From the streets around you couldn’t tell what was going on at the field at night.
Every Halloween we would have increasingly dangerous and heavily armed Roman candle wars. First year it was just a few of us. By the last year it was like 20 on 20.
One year, a friend built “armour” out of cardboard boxes poorly covered in tinfoil. One of the (many) problems with his design was that the helmet left him with poor visibility, along with a false sense of protection. He looked like he was wearing a transformers costume.
In the middle of the battle he ran out in to the field, Roman candles in hand, firing at the enemy side. We lit him up like a Christmas tree. Of course, in the process, a few flaming balls got in to the boxes and lit them on fire. It was funny at the time watching him running around yelling while trying to get the boxes off, us laughing at him for his stupid idea, but in retrospect, we were lucky we didn’t burn him to death. We were lucky that over those few years, no one got even mildly hurt.
We were around 10-12 years old at the time. Boys can be so stupid!
I just got to work. I had nothing on my shift, thankfully, but we ended up with a total of 5 fireworks emergencies. One is still in the OR, unfortunately, he will no longer have a hand.
The others, thankfully were minor.
Please be safe out there.
Edited because I just heard that 2 of the 5 were bad, not just one. A 17yo and an 18 yo
People get so stupid. Like … trying to throw a lit firecracker. Just plain stupid.
Hmmm, I think it would be pretty stupid to throw an unlit firecracker… I mean what would be the point… just throw a stick…
People get so stupid. Like … trying to throw a lit firecracker. Just plain stupid.
Hmmm, I think it would be pretty stupid to throw an unlit firecracker… I mean what would be the point… just throw a stick…
Unless you’re throwing unlit firecrackers into your friend’s lit campfire. Just think of the hilarity as burning logs and embers fly out into people. All recorded on cellphones. Those 3rd degree burns are worth those 50 extra followers on FaceTube.
You are in Florida. It will happen.
Btw, good to see you posting. Be well.
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Growing up in Oz 1950s '60s, we did that dumb shit for Guy Fawkes night. Worst I saw was a kid who had a string of firecrackers hanging from his back pocket. Some dumbarse thought it funny to light the fuse.
Worst large burn scar resulted.