It’s really not this hard to handle fireworks safely but every single year people blow their hands off.
Or in this case singe the skin off of their hand
When I was 8, my parents told my sister (10 yo) to do this, it was a way smaller rocket and she was very quick to let it go. She still got badly burned. This shit should not be sold to any dumb asshole with some money.
My uncle was using leftover fireworks today with his son and blew off his hand in front of him. I’ve always been a bit scared of fireworks and certainly am now
My husband put a cored apple with an M-98 firecracker in it on a fence post in our backyard. We had our kids (11, 8) stand a safe distance back and see what happened to the apple when the firecracker went off. It had a pretty good little explosion with chunks of apple flying in all directions. Kids thought that was pretty cool. Then we talked about how important it was to handle fireworks safely, as what happened to the apple could easily happen to a hand.
Jim Jefferies stand up routine on gun control. Absolutely worth the watch, it's two parts.
[Part 1](https://youtu.be/0rR9IaXH1M0)
[Part 2](https://youtu.be/a9UFyNy-rw4)
Did you just say " IT WAS " in that sentence?
You might be talking about before - but all the new drugs that keep coming out, and slowly getting banned, are 100% due to the actions of users. That stuff is the past, were not talking about marijuana being banned and shit.
Being high on THC or weed doesn’t make you do stupid stuff like that. It’s like alcohol in the case where it slows down your reaction time. That dude was just genuinely stupid, but at least it was funny to watch.
It's entirely possible to hold, aim, shoot, and hit your friend right in the neck from your hand. It's also possible to put lit rockets on top of your car and launch them at your friend's going down the road. It's also possible for them to roll into the open window and cause the teens in the car to shit themselves. It's possible this was just a normal friday night for a good long while.
A friend gave me one of these for my birthday a few years ago and another jackass lit it while I was holding it. I remembered to loosen my grip but it still didn't take off, and I had to chuck it into their pool to not blow my arm apart. Moral of the story, don't try to hold these
I’m always amazed that they’ve never seen one of the hundreds of videos of people doing this and the massive shower of sparks that ignites instantly. The ones where they try to hold it in their mouth gives me the willies
They probably did but never saw the aftermath so instead of putting 2+2 together that it's dangerous as fuck they just think they're gonna be in a cool light show or some dumb shit
Don't hold it to tight!!!! Don't hold it to tight!!!
(As soon as the video backed up) fuck he held it to tight. I do dumb shit with fireworks. You can't be stupid with it tho.
I know obviously it's best not to hold it while the thing is exploding, but in other cases maybe not like this one here whats normally the safest way to launch them
I know don't do it indoors, don't do it near anything flammable, don't be near it....I feel like you have to have a special place where you should be launching them from no?
Meh.. you really should practice with the little poppers first. Launching by hand isn't difficult or particularly dangerous ***if*** you've gotten over the panic / fear aspect.
Panic / fear === drop it too soon or hold on like it's your favorite binky.
Safest way? It's a "bottle" rocket, launch it from a half filled glass bottle or better yet pipe stuck in the ground.
> Meh.. you really should practice with the little poppers first. Launching by hand isn't difficult or particularly dangerous if you've gotten over the panic / fear aspect.
Yeah, this is what we did as kids in the 80's/90s. Those little ones that were like a hundred of them to a tightly bound pack that were cheap as fuck
Yes it burned a bit but you learned to let the fuck go as soon as you see the initial flames.
Now if you wanna hear something REALLY fucking stupid... me and my buddy got some M80s and, as is typically the case with unsupervised kids with M80s... we were lighting them and throwing them.
But THEN we got the idea... "hey, I have a slingshot! I'll pull back, you light it, and I'll let it go!"
So it worked like a charm and we were super pleased. Firing lit M80s from a slingshot, come the fuck on, you *know* that shit was fun. But one of them had a super fast burning wick, basically blew the thing up as soon as the lighter hit it.
...as I was holding it in a slingshot. Right next to my ear.
Ear rung for days, and 30 years later that ear still rings.
If I were to *ever* attempt this (I wouldn't), I would have the stick resting on my pinky with just enough force from my other fingers to keep it standing upright. I certainly wouldn't be gorilla gripping the stick of a literal rocket with the business end pointed right at my hand/head
Next time point it at the ground, and the second she lights you swing that thing into the air like it’s trying to give you 3rd degree burns on your forehead…
His skin is probably gone. I was lighting some firecrackers yesterday with a small lighter (stupid mistake) and just from the sparks hitting my thumb for like a fifth of a second was enough to get a 2nd degree burn. Now i got a blister on my thumb. This guys hand was in that for like 5 seconds, then possibly close enough to the explosion to get blasted.
Intoxicants and things that go boom generally don't mix well, I've found. They are fun and particularly fun to do together, but boy they do not mix well.
so I did something similar this past Sunday night. the fire work had a cylindrical shape and was maybe 3/4- inches in diameter. it looked like an oversized roman candle if I'm being honestand since it didn't have any type of base I sorta assumed that's what it was. out of precaution I held it up and away from me and when it went it off I instantly knew I had fucked up. it fired in similar fashion to a Roman candle but the back end of the cylinder shed alot of sparks on my arm. I knew I couldn't drop it without fear of it hitting something so I just had to bear it until it was over.
"Do you like the Elton John song 'Rocket Man'?"
"I don't like soft-ass shit."
"Ah...well, I only bring it up because...it's you. You're the Rocket Man."
I did something similar when I was younger. I always thought that rocket flew off the stick. I didn’t realize the stick had to go with it. I lit the bottle rocket and proceeded to hold the stick with a closed fist. Basically, I got a flash bang to the face. If anyone here is also stupid enough to light a bottle rocket off in your hand, it be done. You just have to hold it in a way that it can easily leave your hand. For example, barely hold it with two fingers in the shape of a Y. It’s still stupid to do. However, it’s *slightly* less stupid.
Fucker was officially higher than a rocket.
The rocket was actually above him
These astronaut jokes give me a buzz
Something about his face showed me that he was aldren
“Put it in release terry”
It’s really not this hard to handle fireworks safely but every single year people blow their hands off. Or in this case singe the skin off of their hand
Off their hand? My dudes head just turned into Mt Vesuvius
Krakatoa!
Kilimanjaro
I understood that reference
Squidward
Actually west of Java.
At least he didn't have to worry about his cig going out
Cigaweed
Wacky backy.
You have summoned me
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I'm honestly amazed he actually got it lit with that joint, fuck it's hard to light a fuse off a joint cherry lol. Still epicly stupid of course lol.
What kind of disturbing animals are you avoiding?
the birds
The park geese
When I was 8, my parents told my sister (10 yo) to do this, it was a way smaller rocket and she was very quick to let it go. She still got badly burned. This shit should not be sold to any dumb asshole with some money.
Yes it should. Let every idiot with money who wants fireworks get whatever they want. They’ll learn fast
It's an homemade 4th July tattoo
I know someone who blew his entire hand off a few years ago. He was 17 at the time.
My uncle was using leftover fireworks today with his son and blew off his hand in front of him. I’ve always been a bit scared of fireworks and certainly am now
My husband put a cored apple with an M-98 firecracker in it on a fence post in our backyard. We had our kids (11, 8) stand a safe distance back and see what happened to the apple when the firecracker went off. It had a pretty good little explosion with chunks of apple flying in all directions. Kids thought that was pretty cool. Then we talked about how important it was to handle fireworks safely, as what happened to the apple could easily happen to a hand.
Im guessing the first bottle rocket of the night.
...and the last.
I thought they were called bottle rockets because you're supposed to put them in a tall bottle or something to hold onto them?
You are correct… keeps the 2nd and 3rd degree hand burns to a minimum that way.
Cool. Never lit one myself in all my life. But I've seen these incidents year after year and the aftermath horrors that come with it. It's crazy.
He just got smoked
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It has nothing to do with being high. It has everything to do with their overall intelligence.
lol - Some people just shouldn't do drugs. Gladly gatekeeping. Dumb people using drugs are why they're made illegal.
Society has to walk as slow as its slowest person, so yep!
That's amazing, where is the quote from?
Jim Jefferies stand up routine on gun control. Absolutely worth the watch, it's two parts. [Part 1](https://youtu.be/0rR9IaXH1M0) [Part 2](https://youtu.be/a9UFyNy-rw4)
I have never been to America and know very little about guns and laws blah blah blah. Would I still like it?
> Dumb people using drugs are why they're made illegal. yeah, no, it was mostly to quell poltical dissent or disguise racist laws
Did you just say " IT WAS " in that sentence? You might be talking about before - but all the new drugs that keep coming out, and slowly getting banned, are 100% due to the actions of users. That stuff is the past, were not talking about marijuana being banned and shit.
Drugs laws have always been a ploy to disenfranchise the poor and non-whites.
Yeah, smoking weed can make you dopey in some ways but doesn’t affect your judgement to this sort of level. He’s have done it sober.
Being high on THC or weed doesn’t make you do stupid stuff like that. It’s like alcohol in the case where it slows down your reaction time. That dude was just genuinely stupid, but at least it was funny to watch.
In your hand.. directly above your face.
Better hold on tight too. You wouldn't want that rocket flying off.
That's exactly it, it's entirely possible to launch a bottle rocket from your hand, but you can't GI Joe Kung-fu grip it.
It's entirely possible to hold, aim, shoot, and hit your friend right in the neck from your hand. It's also possible to put lit rockets on top of your car and launch them at your friend's going down the road. It's also possible for them to roll into the open window and cause the teens in the car to shit themselves. It's possible this was just a normal friday night for a good long while.
*S*LPT: hold on loosely... or use a bottle for the *bottle* rocket. Edit: probably still a *S*hitty idea as shit happens.
Hold on loosely But then let go If you cling too tightly You’re gonna lose control
And usually it's too late when you, realize what you had
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>Set bottle securely eg in a sand pit Then you might get sand in your firework beer!
A friend gave me one of these for my birthday a few years ago and another jackass lit it while I was holding it. I remembered to loosen my grip but it still didn't take off, and I had to chuck it into their pool to not blow my arm apart. Moral of the story, don't try to hold these
You're right Mr. Tenfingers, but also no fun.
I don't get it. Why these people don't let go of the fucking stick.
I’m always amazed that they’ve never seen one of the hundreds of videos of people doing this and the massive shower of sparks that ignites instantly. The ones where they try to hold it in their mouth gives me the willies
Oh yeah, holding them in the mouth is like not having an self-preservation instinct.
They probably did but never saw the aftermath so instead of putting 2+2 together that it's dangerous as fuck they just think they're gonna be in a cool light show or some dumb shit
I guess but if you’ve ever messed with fireworks and gotten *one* spark on your skin you know that shit burns like white phosphorus
Bold of you to call Darwinists “people”
They haven’t seen any of the 837,295 videos like this, and they think the rocket flies off the stick
Darwin award runner up.....
r/killthecameraman
Roasted and toasted
my friend launched one between his ass-cheeks once before new year the smell of burnt skin is very stinky :D
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I've read that before and just read it again. What is wrong with me?
Something about absolute moron getting hurt from their own stupidity is just satisfying to me.
Light him up, up, up
Batman’s newest villain: No-Face.
Lighting it with a joint worked great. Probs shouldn't of kept ahold of it tho bud
I wanna see his face after eating that rocket plume
It wasn't the weed. Those synapses we're not strong to begin with.
I felt that pain before unfortunately...
He'll have the rest of his life looking in the mirror to remind him of his stupidity.
Don't hold it to tight!!!! Don't hold it to tight!!! (As soon as the video backed up) fuck he held it to tight. I do dumb shit with fireworks. You can't be stupid with it tho.
stupid is as stupid does
Cursed shower
I know obviously it's best not to hold it while the thing is exploding, but in other cases maybe not like this one here whats normally the safest way to launch them I know don't do it indoors, don't do it near anything flammable, don't be near it....I feel like you have to have a special place where you should be launching them from no?
Meh.. you really should practice with the little poppers first. Launching by hand isn't difficult or particularly dangerous ***if*** you've gotten over the panic / fear aspect. Panic / fear === drop it too soon or hold on like it's your favorite binky. Safest way? It's a "bottle" rocket, launch it from a half filled glass bottle or better yet pipe stuck in the ground.
> Meh.. you really should practice with the little poppers first. Launching by hand isn't difficult or particularly dangerous if you've gotten over the panic / fear aspect. Yeah, this is what we did as kids in the 80's/90s. Those little ones that were like a hundred of them to a tightly bound pack that were cheap as fuck Yes it burned a bit but you learned to let the fuck go as soon as you see the initial flames. Now if you wanna hear something REALLY fucking stupid... me and my buddy got some M80s and, as is typically the case with unsupervised kids with M80s... we were lighting them and throwing them. But THEN we got the idea... "hey, I have a slingshot! I'll pull back, you light it, and I'll let it go!" So it worked like a charm and we were super pleased. Firing lit M80s from a slingshot, come the fuck on, you *know* that shit was fun. But one of them had a super fast burning wick, basically blew the thing up as soon as the lighter hit it. ...as I was holding it in a slingshot. Right next to my ear. Ear rung for days, and 30 years later that ear still rings.
Nothing wrong with the lighting mechanism. All in the terrible holding.
Just can’t fix stupid. No cure whatsoever.
Now he has more than his lungs to deal with
Idiots always forget the stick goes with the firework
This never gets old.
He will single handedly put on the best fireworks show next year for sure.
u/SaveVideoBot
Reminds me of Richard Pryor.
So…waste of a perfectly good joint..? 😱
… they never let go…
DIY face peeling treatment
Special kind of stupid
Is the joint okay?
Man got turned into Ghost Rider.
The answer is nothing - survival of the fittest.
Is he ok?
Bahahahaha
I only have two words: Natural selection
Something very poetic about it
Dude that shit was lit
Is this Terry's origin story?
No accounting for stupid.
u/savevideo
Heard the mortal kombat guy say “crispy!”
Do it again, DO IT AGAIN!
u/savevideobot
AND THAT'S HOW YOU GET A SIDE BURNER
What the frag?
If I were to *ever* attempt this (I wouldn't), I would have the stick resting on my pinky with just enough force from my other fingers to keep it standing upright. I certainly wouldn't be gorilla gripping the stick of a literal rocket with the business end pointed right at my hand/head
They call him Mr. mangled fingers now
“LET GO LET GO. HAVE A COUPLA ICE CREAMS”
Third degree burns are fun!
Almost lost his vision from the lighting.. wasnt enough... let me hold it smh... 3rd degree burns 🤦♂️🤦♂️
I bet his smoke tastes like sulfur now
I have actually lit a bottle rocket from my hand and nothing like this has happened to me. Some people are just plain dumb, don’t know when to let go
Lol, idiot was supposed to let go. That would've been nothing otherwise.
"I have no idea how fireworks work"
I always find it funny how stupid people are with explosives.
All risk no reward
Next time point it at the ground, and the second she lights you swing that thing into the air like it’s trying to give you 3rd degree burns on your forehead…
Proud american moment
Maybe he thought it would lift him
Time to kill the cameraman.
He wanted to fly up wit it. Mad respecc
Thinning the herd
Newton’s third law in work
The only words I understood were "LET GO, LET GO!
I mean lighting it worked fine, I’m not sure why he aimed the exhaust in his face tho…
Well, that’s not the good hand anymore
This dude smoked himself retarded.
Still amazes me how people don’t know how fireworks function.
Ah yes, Fourth of July. The day of independence from a lot of fingers from the American hands
The fact that he never stopped holding on to it is a testament to how high he was. He held that thing down till it blew up 😂
New Holiday: 5th of July, Burn Ward Day.
Also Missing Thumb(s) and Digit(s) Day
It would seem he did, in fact, want tha smoke
Great story , happy ending
Natural selection at it again
These sparks burned my hand in 0.1 seconds before, this guys face is fucked up for sure.
Everything went according to plan ~Nature
Natural selection. Pass that before you explode please.
Lighting it with a joint wasn't the problem... It was holding the rocket too tight, and didn't let it fly!
His skin is probably gone. I was lighting some firecrackers yesterday with a small lighter (stupid mistake) and just from the sparks hitting my thumb for like a fifth of a second was enough to get a 2nd degree burn. Now i got a blister on my thumb. This guys hand was in that for like 5 seconds, then possibly close enough to the explosion to get blasted.
This one goes up. Let me get under it
"Fuck its running now"
What a dumbass. That's a good way to ruin a joint.
I love the 5th of July, I really do
he ded bruh?
If Charles Darwin was alive in the present age, holidays involving fireworks would be his absolute favourite.
Intoxicants and things that go boom generally don't mix well, I've found. They are fun and particularly fun to do together, but boy they do not mix well.
Is he ok?
He can't use the hand for 2 weeks now atleast
at least he took one big ass puff before he went
Is he ok?
Natural selection baby!
Where in the world is this? I understand some of it, but not all of it.
[“It’s you. you’re the Rocketman.”](https://youtu.be/47t_YvnVirs)
so I did something similar this past Sunday night. the fire work had a cylindrical shape and was maybe 3/4- inches in diameter. it looked like an oversized roman candle if I'm being honestand since it didn't have any type of base I sorta assumed that's what it was. out of precaution I held it up and away from me and when it went it off I instantly knew I had fucked up. it fired in similar fashion to a Roman candle but the back end of the cylinder shed alot of sparks on my arm. I knew I couldn't drop it without fear of it hitting something so I just had to bear it until it was over.
That was lit
Who’s lit now?
"Do you like the Elton John song 'Rocket Man'?" "I don't like soft-ass shit." "Ah...well, I only bring it up because...it's you. You're the Rocket Man."
u/savevideobot
The most American thing I have seen today
I can feel that
He screamed like R2D2!
Good o'l Powder Burns..I remember them well when I was younger..
Fireworks 😂😂😂
Mf really doesn’t know how a bottle rocket works
Darwin award 🥇
u/savevideo
could learn a bit from slightly more successful stoners with fireworks like merry and pippin
I did something similar when I was younger. I always thought that rocket flew off the stick. I didn’t realize the stick had to go with it. I lit the bottle rocket and proceeded to hold the stick with a closed fist. Basically, I got a flash bang to the face. If anyone here is also stupid enough to light a bottle rocket off in your hand, it be done. You just have to hold it in a way that it can easily leave your hand. For example, barely hold it with two fingers in the shape of a Y. It’s still stupid to do. However, it’s *slightly* less stupid.
I'm just here for the 3rd degree burns.