Posted on 12/26/2006 6:04:00 PM PST by Shermy
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- A man lost his hand in an explosion Tuesday afternoon, but police haven't yet said what caused the explosion.
Raymond Singleton told Local 10 that he was with his co-worker, Jamie Rich, when he stopped at a store located at 1090 South 56th Avenue in Hollywood. Singleton said that Rich stayed in the truck, which is owned by their company, Dwight Tree Service, while he went inside the store.
Singleton said he heard a loud explosion, and when he ran outside, he found Rich on the ground screaming, "Tie off my hand." Singleton said that he tied a tourniquet on Rich's wrist and called 911.
The explosion blew out the back window of the truck and shattered the windshield. Police have not yet determined what kind of explosive device Rich was holding, but they said that they believe the device was detonated by accident.
Rich was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital. He was also badly burned, but he is expected to survive the incident.
Friends of yours? ;^)
Good thing he wasn't holding it between his legs.
Homemade explosives? To blow up a tree?
These guys are sharp!
Powerful enough to take off a limb apparently.
If the device had something to do with the job, it seems like the other guy would have told the cops what is was right away.
Perhaps these two are a couple of pranksters.
True. Leaving a stump.
A "hold mu beer and watch this" alert?
Might be a homemade toy for New Year's Eve.
Here. Hold muh beer and watch this.......
Did he scream that he was "invisible" before the explosion?
"hold mu beer and watch this" alert?"
Should be, but his pal was not in the vehicle. Probably placed the beer in the car cup holder.
BTW, is that pink thing in the photo a body part?
LOL. I barely remembered the reference.
Sounds like the banjo player in "In Search of the Cross Eyed Jesus". This is a must see movie, if you like movies depicting quirky southern culture, such as Oh Brother.
At least he wasn't playing with a Red Ryder BB gun. He would've shot his eye out.
Back around August, we had a homebrew fireworks factory explode in Boynton Beach, maybe an hour to the north. The nice gentleman who decided to manufacture explosives in a crowded neighborhood full of children managed to vaporise himself, so the police were never able to obtain his list of clients. Betcha the budding junior Nobel was on that list.
The bad news: the operation will cost an arm and a leg.
I have heard they use Dyanamite to remove tree stumps ...
you can even Google it ...
my bet is that it was an explosive relating to that
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