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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida Man Blows Hand Off With Firework On July 3rd In Palm Bay
PALM BAY, Florida A 42-year-old Florida man suffered a severe injury to his right hand from an exploding firework just before 9:30 p.m. on Friday, July 3, 2020, in Palm Bay, Florida.
Brevard County Fire Rescue crews responded to the 800 block of Serenade Street NW where the man was reported to have had his hand blown off by the Independence Day holiday blast.
The unidentified Florida man was transported by BCFR ambulance as a trauma alert to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, Florida. ...........(more)
http://www.brevardtimes.com/2020/07/florida-man-blows-hand-off-with-firework-on-july-3rd-in-palm-bay/
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Florida Man Blows Hand Off With Firework On July 3rd In Palm Bay (Original Post)
marmar
Jul 2020
OP
Many people are now spending the last hours with all their body extremities attached.
cherish44
Jul 2020
#2
TheCowsCameHome
(40,161 posts)1. Palm Bay. That's ironic.
CurtEastPoint
(18,548 posts)3. LOL! It took me a second!
cherish44
(2,566 posts)2. Many people are now spending the last hours with all their body extremities attached.
#Merica Happy 4th of July! Be safe with those fireworks!
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)4. Must be a Trumper. Will do anything for attention.
Still remember the video of the guy who shot himself playing with a handgun a while back.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)8. Reminds me of the Road Runner cartoons, in which the Wolf ... (sorry, I can't continue).
PJMcK
(21,916 posts)11. I like your sig line! (n/t)
NCjack
(10,279 posts)12. Thanks -- it has be relevant from the day hoax-#45 attacked Sen. McCain.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)13. Wile E. Coyote
Honestly, what are the kids learning in school these days?! {Joke}
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)17. Coyote
using Acme fireworks.
Towlie
(5,307 posts)5. His wife's gonna be opening his ketchup bottles the rest of his life.
Armageddon Movie Quote
Ronald Quincy: [holds out his hand] Imagine a firecracker in the palm of your hand. You set it off, what happens? You burn your hand, right? You close your fist around the same firecracker,
[clenches his hand into a fist]
Ronald Quincy: and set it off. Your wife's gonna be opening your ketchup bottles the rest of your life.
[clenches his hand into a fist]
Ronald Quincy: and set it off. Your wife's gonna be opening your ketchup bottles the rest of your life.
chia
(2,235 posts)6. Florida Man
NCjack
(10,279 posts)9. If he got ObamaCare, maybe the physicians can fix him with a mechanical hand,
so he can try the same stunt next year.
Chainfire
(17,304 posts)7. He didn't read the part
LIGHT FUSE AND GET AWAY
Let him be known from this day forward as "Stubby."
Let him be known from this day forward as "Stubby."
Nevilledog
(50,659 posts)10. The guy missing his hand and one eye always has the best fireworks.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)14. Meh. Pretty much every year someone or several someones
blow off fingers or a hand. Usually it's kids whose parents let them have fireworks they have no business having.
Chainfire
(17,304 posts)15. When I lived in Miami
I dreaded holidays. The 4th, Christmas, New Years. All night long people would be firing pistols into the air, not giving a rats ass where they came down. I would always "shelter in place" on the big holidays.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)16. His words before the accident:
"Here, hold my beer"
lame54
(35,130 posts)18. My money was on gator bite