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A 22-year-old man has died after he set off a fireworks mortar from the top of his head.
Devon Staples was celebrating the Fourth of July with friends in Calais, Maine, when he placed a reloadable motor tube on his head, set it off and died instantly.
Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, told the Bangor Daily News that Mr Staples had been drinking alcohol and that explosion immediately caused a fatal head injury.
When he suggested he was going to do this, his friends gathered around him and they thought they had convinced him not to do it, he said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-dies-after-shooting-firework-from-top-of-his-head-10367677.html
MADem
(135,425 posts)It's only in the past few years they've been legalized.
His town is almost into Canada. I'm guessing his family is devastated.
According to this article, he was goofing around, not intending to light the thing. He also was living and working in Orlando, FL--must have been home for the holiday or something...?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3150053/Police-Man-shoots-firework-head-dies.html
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)I'm sure his family are devastated. Too bad one of them didn't save him from his own silliness.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)I read someplace that his friends had thought they had talked him out of it as really stupid, but he was still screwing around and lit the fuse apparently more by accident than purposely. As you said, it's a bad combo!
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)My first thought was why in the world would someone do something like that? That is just
I hate the guy is dead, but that was not a smart idea, at all.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Bad, Surya, bad...
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Gothmog
(145,554 posts)This may lead to even more "Florida Man" stories
Roland99
(53,342 posts)but not actually do it.
Alcohol and fireworks.
Never a good mix.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)ornotna
(10,807 posts)Quite sad actually.
'I was the first one who got there. There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there,' his brother said.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Maybe I'm just being cynical.