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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: The Antiyuppie

Let’s not all lose our heads over this ...


81 posted on 07/07/2015 2:47:23 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Those things always scared the crap outta me.

Then too you always heard stories of Charlie

catching guys sleeping and them turning them around.


82 posted on 07/07/2015 3:04:12 PM PDT by Harold Shea
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To: Gamecock

I do believe he will recieve a full Darwin award as I have not seen any references to leaving behind children. Although there could be some he did not know about.


83 posted on 07/07/2015 3:24:25 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This is the first story I have seen that actually explains what happened. He put the mortar upside down in the tube.

That was my first guess when I saw the story last week. My second guess was that he was drinking, threw his beer down instead of the lit firework, and held the lit firework to his head while trying to cover his ears, thinking the firework was his beer.

84 posted on 07/07/2015 3:45:36 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Never throw lit sticks of dynamite around with a retriever present.


85 posted on 07/07/2015 3:48:26 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

I read that he was pretending to light the fuse with a lighter when it arched over and lit the fuse.


86 posted on 07/07/2015 3:55:37 PM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: NRx

that one really makes me laugh


87 posted on 07/07/2015 3:57:50 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Gamecock

Did he play “Dopey”?


88 posted on 07/07/2015 4:46:46 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Another article yesterday said his brother who witnessed it said his head was gone.”

It seems to me it wasn’t there in the first place.


89 posted on 07/07/2015 4:51:27 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Set off my pencil flair in downtown Anchorage AK. after we had been drinking a lot. Did not realize I also set off the E.L.T. also on my E.I. pack. The M.P.s found us hiding in a field by Ship Creek at the bottom of the hill. I woke up in Germany two days latter.


90 posted on 07/07/2015 5:14:51 PM PDT by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!.)
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To: Covenantor

That’s no joke. Friend of mine built up to 50 cals.


91 posted on 07/07/2015 5:49:18 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: proud American in Canada

No one has to wonder what the last thing that went through his mind was.


92 posted on 07/07/2015 6:40:28 PM PDT by ABN 505
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To: Gamecock

Ex-Disney performer - must have played Goofy or Dopey.....


93 posted on 07/07/2015 8:52:50 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Gamecock
"Ex-Disney performer placed firework on head upside down before he died, authorities say"

If he wasn't an ex-Disney employee before his pyrotechnic christening, he is now.
94 posted on 07/07/2015 9:52:52 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He put the mortar upside down in the tube.

Yea, I've been wondering how this happened. It all comes to a head with
that one hair of information. It's been a mist-ery.

So it fired into his head, then exploded? Just damn.

95 posted on 07/07/2015 10:08:01 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
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To: Covenantor

I’ve pulled many a lead out with my teeth as a kid, does that give any immunity?


96 posted on 07/07/2015 10:13:14 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
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To: Gamecock

My Beer. Hold it.


97 posted on 07/08/2015 12:38:02 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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