Another Post-4th of July Cautionary Tale for…
Today’s Serious Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A Colorado teen is recovering from serious burns he suffered when the fireworks he was attempting to mix in a coffee grinder exploded. The incident happened Monday, July 4, 2011 when 19-year-old Sean Michael Ogden of Durango was trying to break down fireworks he had purchased so he could turn them into larger fireworks. The blast shook the house of a fire inspector who lives about a quarter-mile away. Fire marshal Tom Kaufman told The Durango Herald that the friction from the electric grinder could have ignited the mixture. He says the teen had read online about how larger fireworks could be made from smaller ones.
Culled from: The Associated Press
Generously submitted by: Aimee
Let’s hope his parents took a good portrait of him before he suffered these burns, which one can only suspect might have marred his precious face.
The fact that he used a coffee grinder has got me thinking what Starbucks could do if they just branched out a little bit.
Roman Candlatte, it explodes with flavor!
Did the teen also read on the internet that this was really a bad idea, or didnt he get that far?
Is it just that I’m a 46 year old dork or does putting fireworks in a coffee grinder seem like an incredibly asinine idea? Or as my husband says, “This is just Darwin at work.” (Tonight he said, “The vast majority of people would think before doing this, and then there’s numb nuts.) Last, did this story come from a trailer park as well?
Probably came from a nice white-bread cookie-cutter subdivision.
And most people wouldn’t stop to think before they did this thing: most people it wouldn’t even occur to them to try it.