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Ex-Disney performer placed firework on head upside down before he died, authorities say
Orlando Sentinel ^
| July 6 2015
| By Steven Lemongello
Posted on 07/07/2015 12:56:25 PM PDT by Gamecock
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To: Gamecock
Guy was a hot head, with an explosive temper.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:05:45 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Gamecock
“There was no Devon left when I got there, his brother said....”
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Gee, where’d he go?
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:05:57 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
To: Gamecock
“And rather than being projected upwards, it projected into his skull.”
Either way he was a goner.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:06:08 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(Eat a snickers...)
To: Gamecock
Even if he put the shell in correctly and put the base of the mortar on his head, there may have been enough recoil to kill or seriously hurt him.
Some lessons you just can’t learn from.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:06:50 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: Gamecock
His mother is now saying we need more stringent fireworks laws. Perhaps a warning sticker saying, “if you are going to set this off from your head, please first make sure that the firing side is pointing to the sky rather than your head” would have saved this poor kid’s life or perhaps would save the life of some other kid who can’t resist the understandable urge to launch a firework from his head.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:07:20 PM PDT
by
KevinB
(Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
To: fidelis
That’s the way I interpreted it also. It was an impact injury, not a percussion injury.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:07:34 PM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
To: Gamecock
Strong candidate for a darwin Award.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:07:59 PM PDT
by
NRx
(An unrepentant champion of the old order and determined foe of damnable Whiggery in all its forms.)
To: Gamecock
He was Gaston from Beauty and the Beast? My daughter would be so sad. She had a crush on him since she was 4 years old.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:08:47 PM PDT
by
MNDude
(God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
To: Gamecock
Oh I see, so instead of the mortar compressing his neck and spine and turning him into a quadriplegic, he absentmindedly had it upside down and killed him.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:11:45 PM PDT
by
freedomson
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
it probably sat on his head better with the opening end being on his head.....like a short term hat....
suicide by firework....lay on head....light fuse...get away quick.
I assume the bursting charge that entered his head...well it then went off too...splat....
not a fun end to the festivities.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:11:54 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Gamecock
They are called mortars for a reason.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:14:11 PM PDT
by
LukeL
To: NRx
Was “This side up” printed in English?
Actually, the open mortar tube probably fit on his head better. The closed end would probably tend to slide off.
To: Gamecock
There is video of this somewhere, I bet.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:14:39 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: freedomson
I have this Wiley Coyote type image of a round going through his skull, into his thoracic cavity, abdomen and exiting the other end.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:15:46 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
To: Gamecock
hold muh beer and watch dis
To: Gamecock
"He placed the firework in the (mortar) tube upside down,"Well of course he did.
The fuse is on the base of those things. If he had it set upright, he could have set his hair on fire trying to light the fuse. Sheesh. Ya gotta use your noodle for things like that.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:16:52 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
To: BenLurkin
Until it surfaces I offer this as a Darwin Award candidate. Hope this took him out of the gene pool:
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:17:58 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
To: Gamecock
To: Vaquero
Another article yesterday said his brother who witnessed it said his head was gone.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:18:53 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("One man with a gun can control a hundred without one." -- Vladimir Lenin)
To: BenLurkin
i don’t think I want to see it.
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posted on
07/07/2015 1:19:29 PM PDT
by
right way right
(Disclaimer: Not a prophet but I have a pretty good record.)
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