sourceCalifornia man blows off hands with fireworks
Updated 6:30 pm, Sunday, July 6, 2014
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California man igniting illegal fireworks blew off both of his hands when a device exploded prematurely, police said.
Officer Albert Morales of the San Jose Police Department said the man in his 40s is expected to live. The explosive went off in the man's hands as family members stood nearby late on the Fourth of July holiday.
"It would have had to have been something pretty powerful," Morales told the San Jose Mercury News.
The newspaper also reported that two other men were seriously injured in Sunnyvale while lighting a mortar-like explosive on Friday.
The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety said that at 10 p.m. the men — ages 41 and 32 — were hurt at an apartment complex when the illegal firework ignited prematurely. Witnesses in a group of about 20 people said the men had been trying to ignite the firework when it went off in their hands, officials reported.
One man lost fingers on his left hand and finger tips on the right hand, while officials said the other man lost part of his right hand.
In Southern California, a man lost his thumb Friday after the firecracker he was holding exploded in his hand, Long Beach police said Sunday.
Illegal Fireworks have gotten Out of Hand...
Illegal Fireworks have gotten Out of Hand...
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Hey! Watch this!!!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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The last line in the video is a classic.
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Dune fire caused by stray firework from my beach on Saturday night. In the same area, one of the fireworks accidentally shot onto someone's porch and burned their decorations. Post Arthur, it was really too windy for amateurs.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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Beer Sponge
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Look ma, no hands!
Personally, I don’t believe in bros before hoes, or hoes before bros. There needs to be a balance. A homie-hoe-stasis, if you will.
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I thought about going for the obvious, cheap, tasteless gag, but then I remembered that's what we have you here for...Beer Sponge wrote:Look ma, no hands!
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Obvious, yes. Cheap, you bet! Tasteless? No way. Dumbass blows off his own hands doing something stupid? I will certainly mock that! Only way this is more laughable is if he had blown off his cock and balls! 
Not that he will be handling them again anyway!
Not that he will be handling them again anyway!
Personally, I don’t believe in bros before hoes, or hoes before bros. There needs to be a balance. A homie-hoe-stasis, if you will.
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Give that man a hand ladies and gentlemen!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Which man?
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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The unhandyman?