4th of July Injuries

[Gulkeeva]

I'm sure someone got hurt after some people were firing gun shots into the air as 'fireworks" since... bullets do eventually fall back down somewhere

[Senoska]

When bullets fall they tumble and slow down considerably. Unless they were firing on an angle theres nothing to worry about.

[Qalbert]

When bullets fall they tumble and slow down considerably. Unless they were firing on an angle theres nothing to worry about.

you realize "straight up" is anywhere from 10-15 degrees one way to the other. AKA an angle. The odds of actually shooting straight up is slim.

[gamez]

The only casualty last night was my pocket book

Had 6 homeowners and alot of friends(about 150 people) in the culdesac all lighting fireworks. Took about 1.5 hours of constant lighting to set them all off. Rough estimate was about $8k was blown up last night. But we all love the 4th and no injuries to be reported. Did have one mortar that didnt launch and blew up on the ground but with that many people safety was pretty high on the priority list.

>_> Was this up in NW MT/Outside which town/city? rofl. It just sounds like I'm potentially bumping into stories of RL folks last night on a forum. Would be a freakish coincidence.

[Senoska]

you realize "straight up" is anywhere from 10-15 degrees one way to the other. AKA an angle. The odds of actually shooting straight up is slim.

10-15 degrees is high enough where the bullets will tumble. I was talking about like 45 degrees. You know what I meant.

[Qalbert]

Ok, wasn't sure about that. When it was done on mythbusters it was perpendicular to the ground and exactly straight up, I assumed any significant variance would affect it.

[BIGSTIC]

>_> Was this up in NW MT/Outside which town/city? rofl. It just sounds like I'm potentially bumping into stories of RL folks last night on a forum. Would be a freakish coincidence.

I cant afford to live in NW Montana I am down in the south east. I wish I was farther north because I like Kokane but this crap they sell in the states just sucks.

[Kiro]

Had some home-made tennis ball explosives. First one we lit didn't go off, and the #1 rule is not to approach or attempt to relight a firework that didn't go off.

So we decided to attempt to break that rule.

Started walking towards the ball to relight it, when we were about 10 feet from it, it went off. Knocked 3 of us on our asses, but it was loud as fuck and all the other people on the lake cheered and shit.

Was fun.

[Furtwangler]

Had some home-made tennis ball explosives. First one we lit didn't go off, and the #1 rule is not to approach or attempt to relight a firework that didn't go off.

So we decided to attempt to break that rule.

Started walking towards the ball to relight it, when we were about 10 feet from it, it went off. Knocked 3 of us on our asses, but it was loud as fuck and all the other people on the lake cheered and shit.

Was fun.

What do you fill them with?

[Kiro]

No clue, I didn't make 'em. I think you just rip fuses from lesser fireworks, tie 'em together to make one long fuse. Fill the ball up with M-80>1000s and gunpowder and that's it.

/shrug

[Komm Suesser Tod]

My friend, who is old enough to know better, laid a bottle rocket on the ground and fired it at a group of me and about four other friends. I bounced off a few peoples legs before exploding on my left leg, leaving me with a decent cut on the back of my leg. Nothing serious, but I punched him twice in recompense.

[Gulkeeva]

hmm well I've heard of reports of people being hurt by a falling bullet even fatal ones so...!

[Canabal Lamp]

Friend stole and took perscription codeine that expired in '07 and took them while completely shit faced after smoking 1.5 grams of kush and rolling of extacy laced with ketamine. Don't even need to explain how this is an in injury.

[Galaika]

Unless you fire a bullet up exactly perpendicular to the ground it will maintain a ballistic trajectory until it hits something (bird, ground, human) and can wound someone potentially fatally.

[Blabj]

MythBusters Episode 50: “Bullets Fired Up”

Ridiculously unlikely you'd actually manage to hit someone, but they can (in ultra rare cases) kill. You'd have to be one unlucky motherfucker though!

[burrito]

Beered up bottle rocket tag. Luckily we were too drunk to actually tag anyone, and the game quickly ended after I got nailed in the back by one.

When I was a kid we had the "brilliant" idea of stuffing a giant ant hill full of little black cats and lighting the fuse... yeaah.

[Kimiko]

Saw someone get shot in the chest with a roman candle. epic...