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Condolences to family and friends of Matiss Kivlenieks.
Jus damn.
Details are too sketch to figure out who was the idiot firing mortar fireworks and why he was so close to them.
RIP.
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Had he been vaccinated?
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Very tragic. A group of 20 somethings doing dumb things with fireworks. Most of us did the same at one point in our lives.
His instincts took over and he tried to make the save. RIP.
Too bad he didn’t think to duck under the water.
I learned to respect high explosives in Vietnam. It’s amazing what a “mere” 1/4 lb of C4 in a concussion grenade can do. Put one in a wooden grenade box and it will throw wood splinters 100 yards. People have no idea how dangerous this stuff is. They “learn” it from Hollywood movies.
A sad end to a quality goaltender who had a bright future.
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For Rexroth, walking back to check on a firework that wasn’t igniting proved to be a mistake. “I went to check on it, and it went off in my face,” he says. Dave Rexroth in bed, injured eye covered by an eye patch Rexroth recovers from the injury in 2014. As a result, he now wears a prosthetic eye. He stays connected to specialists at the University of Iowa hospital who performed emergency surgeries to save his eye.
As opposed to murder?
Very sad. RIP
“The 24-year-old Kivleniek was in a hot tub..”
Should have ducked.
“...died of chest trauma..”
Which is it...head or chest trauma? If head then maybe somebody did too vigorous CPR and coroner is covering up for legal purposes?
We had a little ground-only fireworks disply for the kiddos last night, and it was windy, so one of the fountains blew over on its side and spit out its show along the ground. I imagine that is sort of what happened in this case, only with some major firepower.
Did that prose strike anyone as odd? When I read that, It sounded like someone aimed it at the hot tub as a prank.
Sure, it could have just shifted or something on its own.
Anyway, too bad about the guy. Sounded like he was just trying to have a good time.
I’ve been involved in stupid crap when I was younger, even involving things that blow up.
Until I was thirty, I didn’t think I was going to make it to thirty.
It’s amazing any of us guys make it to adulthood. Many don’t.
When I tell my wife about the dumb-ass, dangerous, stupid things I did as a kid, she can only shake her head.
And I always thought I was a run-of-the-mill kid. The guys I knew my age growing up as a military brat going from station to station seemed just like me.
When I wasn’t doing something idiotic and dangerous, one of the other guys I variously knew were.
I have just felt nearly every guy goes through stages like that.
Anyway, a tragedy here. Prayers for his family.
It sounded like WWIII around here last night. Walmart was selling tons of fireworks at our three local stores the past couple of weeks. The usual fireworks stores were also selling them. But, man, they must have shot off a couple or more thousand dollars worth of bombs up behind our area last night. Crap was going off from after dark to around 1:30 a.m. I could have sworn I saw the 82nd Airborne dropping in on an assault!!!! :-) LOL
Getting more and more big fireworks (amateur) every year around my part of the world...people want to live dangerously....consequence of boredom, and media violence conditioning, and ignorance.
Darwin Award winner of the week?