Posted on 07/07/2015 12:56:25 PM PDT by Gamecock
I will not do a Disney gig, and I will not do a cruise ship gig.
It probably literally blew his head off. Horrible way to die for doing a stupid,stupid,drunken stunt.
That makes no sense.
The mortar *is* the tube. The shell fires from the mortar. There’s a lifting charge that puts the shell in the air, then the shell explodes with colors and such.
I’m still not sure what this guy did.
His mamma whining about needing more fireworks regulations and training. She should have beat the stupid out of him instead. If we people were any smarter the Darwin Award would go out of business.
He was a Gaston walk-around character at one of the parks.
And if the shell were upside down in the tube, it would all just tend to explode right there, as lifting charge wouldn’t have a baseplate to constrain the explosion and push the shell downwards instead of upwards. So it would explode, then the shell a couple seconds later on the time delay.
Darwin at work in any case. Sad story.
OMG, this dude looks like he may be rendered incapable of reproduction after this act.
A friend of mine did exactly that while babysitting his neighbor’s kids. Drunk. Dove into the shallow, kiddie end of the pool.
Neck snapped.
Darwin won!
I did that once but was bright enough at least to be a ways away when it went off....still scared the crap outta me.
Never did that again.
Well, at least he saw fireworks, if only for a moment.
What did he “perform” at Disney, human cannonball?
And to think one of his friends said he was not the kind of guy who did stupid things...
Good point. Setting your hair on fire is no fun...
Just an ordinary mortar would not have killed him. It was stupid to do it, but there was something else involved.
Need I remind you of... gravity? He held the morter by the fuse, which puts the propulsion section at 12 o’clock, dropped it into the tube (upside down), either lit the fuse and placed the tube on his head right side up, or put the tube on his head rightside up and then lit the fuse. Either way would have resulted in blowing his head off.
uh... what?!
He most likely had the open end of the mortar pointed at the top of his head (instead of ‘up’).
That would tend to result in the “lifting charge” driving the shell down into, and possibly through, the top of his skull his head. The explosive charge would take care of the rest (of his head).
OMG. That poor man. At least it was instant.
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