How Fireworks Work

I picked this "How Fireworks Work" video because it starts off with "If you are going to blow your fingers off with fireworks, you should at least know why it happens."

Remember to post how many digits you lost after tonight peeps.

A few days to late, we just celebrated Canada Day up here. At least now I can explain to my brother in law why you don't throw spent fireworks into the fire pit.

When I was a kid you would get a shopping bag full of fireworks for about $20. And we would shoot fireworks for hours and be deaf and burned the rest of the week.

Now the same amount of fireworks cost $150. Sorry, I can't afford them anymore.

The indian reservation has something they called an M1000 firecracker.

It was about the size of a Redbull can. We had bought a bag of army men, and a 18" long plastic tank.

We set up the "mine" on a redwood picnic tablet and put the tank over it, and soldiers around it.

Lit the fuse with the camera running, and cleared back 150'.

TOO FOOKING CLOSE.

It was like somebody firing a .38 snub nose next each ear.

You could FEEL the heat from the blast. And I shit thee not, it made a mushroom cloud.

Some of us hit by shrapnel. Pieces rained down through the trees for over 30 seconds straight. Soldiers who were a foot away from the tank were torn into pieces. We never found any piece of the turret (think it's in orbit), and no tank fragment bigger than a quarter.

Neighbors from as far away as 2 miles came down the road to help with the plane crash or whatever made that wicked racket.

Worth $25 for a firecracker? You betcha.

infin@ said:

A few days to late, we just celebrated Canada Day up here. At least now I can explain to my brother in law why you don't throw spent fireworks into the fire pit.

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Too much chance involved. Always throw FRESH fireworks into the fire!