Usually it is children we tell not to play with fireworks.
A South Carolina dad was seen dancing in his front yard while dressed as Uncle Sam, moments before he died after igniting a large firework on top of his head.
Allen Ray McGrew, 41, had been celebrating the 4th of July on Thursday evening at a neighborhood block party in Summerville, Dorchester County.
Dressed as Uncle Sam, footage captured by his wife Paige showed McGrew dancing a jig in his full festive rig out as he celebrated the holiday.
Witnesses told investigators that McGrew had placed a large firework on the top hat he was wearing, before lighting it – causing the device to explode.
Unfortunately, having fathered a son, he misses out on the Darwin awards.
Sadly, it’s not only the Americans. Quite a few years ago, a group of drunken British squaddies decided to end their evening by, in turn, standing on a table, with their trousers around their ankles, and a Roman candle type firework stuck in the cheeks of their arse (the old NAAFI on Gun Hill had a lot to answer for). All went well, till one numpty shoved what turned out to be a banger in his arse. He was later discharged from the Army on medical grounds. It seems that stupidity has no national boundaries.
That’s a story that ended with a bang AND a whimper!
A banger? And here was me thinking you were going to say he had the live end up his back package
Don’t forget that it is now scientifically proven that not being stupid gives you an unfair advantage in life.
I thought it was only white people not being stupid who had an unfair advantage?
Black people not being stupid are still oppressed by white supremacy and institutional racism, aren’t they?
On the plus side at least it was in SC and not Florida where this sort of thing would barely raises a ripple in the media.
Over here in England we generally just content ourselves with sticking a flare up our arse at important sporting events.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/england-football-yob-boasts-12-24538423
We even celebrate the event on stage.
https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/why-i-stuck-a-flare-up-my-arse-for-england/
And now we’re two hours away from England facing Switzerland in the Quarter-Finals of the European championships.
I’ve no doubt flares are being prepared as we speak.
Should we get to the finals and win it will be like the entire United States Sixth Fleet simultaneously sending up rescue signals.
Marvellous.
We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile, yeah
We didn’t have much time now
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground.
Nothing new under the sun.