Fireworks and alcohol are a blast, apparently.
When I was a kid, my (pot-dealing, irresponsible as hell) grandmother would take me fishing early in the AM. Before the sun would come up, sometimes we’d set off roman candles in a line. She insisted that I be several yards away, the roman candle be properly set up on level surfaces, everything by the book.
My ‘responsible,’ upper class inlaws have a 4th of July party where all the kids and grandkids are given roman candles to hold in their hands, with the instructions “try to point them away from people.” Of course they hold them in their dominant hands, too. Sigh.
We did this as kids and one blew up while my brother was holding it, about an inch above his closed hand. So close to looking like one of these radiographs… Don’t hold fireworks kids.
I’m always treated like a loser nerd for stopping some drunk dad from throwing a box of leftover fireworks on the bonfire or something, because it’s not like anything would happen. We’ve done this a dozen times!
But, survivorship bias aside, injuries are very common! And severe!
I saw similar images from guys trying to punch a hole in the wall in Germany like in the US houses.
That’s nuclear grade stupidity.
Ouch!
My first and only though!
Because of birth defects and stuff like this, given that we’re all suppose to have two hands, I wonder what the actual ratio of hands to people is.
It must be far less than 2.
“far” less, like 1.999 or something.
A better question would be ratio of fingers to persons, because lost fingers ≠ lost hand, and the ratio would be more sensitive to changes
Round of applause for the heroes!
I would expect 8 of those 9 to be straight-up nubbed. Not worth the effort.
It’s pretty amazing what doctors can do.
I hope one of these is my neighbor who was illegally setting off fireworks for 3 hours after the new year started.
