[Last Dakotan]

Blowed his 'head clear off...

[cripplecreek]

You’ll put your eye out.

[festusbanjo]

He should have quit while he was a head.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Muslim bottle rocket.

[Cicero]

[CapnJack]

“The accident should be used as an example of how dangerous fireworks can be, Hanson said.

“I’m never going to light a firecracker off again in my life,” he said.”

What a $%*@ pussy. Fireworks don’t say “return to the US Government immediately”. Obviously this guy got into some military ordinance.

I assume that the guy talking to the reporter will stop driving or riding in cars the next time an accident happens and someone gets killed .. what an idiot!

And, and as for the guy who blew his head off ... yeah, he was an idiot too.

[baa39]

Fireworks are illegal in Fargo.
These particular “fireworks” had a warning to call the U.S. Govt if found.

Seems to me the friend who is still alive and did not immediately call the police after seeing these unusual fireworks is culpable in this tragedy, morally if not legally.

Darwin awards all around. Just thank God no kids were in the way.

[VeniVidiVici]

The victim’s injuries included massive head wounds from what appeared to be caused by a mortar type firework, police said.

Understatement of the year award.

[dog breath]

There is little to say when someone kills themself from sheer stupidity. I try not to laugh for almost everyone has people who will miss them, and besides I might come up with a even dumber way to go. I just hope it doesn't involve blowing my head clean off...yikes.

[NonValueAdded]

Must have been a 44 magnum shell

[truthguy]

High powered fireworks and firecrackers should be handled by professionals only. The firecrackers I saw as a kid were about 1/2 the size of a cigarette or even a little smaller. The ones out there today are much more powerful. A guy I went to high school with lost one of his fingers mishandling one of these firecrackers. He was definitely NOT a professional.

It's always struck me that those people who set off these firecrackers are juvenile. If you are over 12-14 and are still messing around with this stuff, you've got some problems. Fireworks at a show handled by professionals is one thing, but just noise makers are dangerous and childish.

[Spirit of Liberty]

‘Hey y’all, watch this!!!’

[mylife]

“Do not look down tube”
“Light fuse, Get away”

[familyop]

[familyop]

[mike-zed]

I would expect that more people died driving to/from fireworks shows than died from consumer (1.4) fireworks.

However, homemade fireworks are a good way to get blowed up.

[Charles Martel]

"Cradled in the palm of the hand... the five-incher - a hard, cool, rocklike cylinder of sinister jade green topped by a vicious red fuse - was a thing of cruel beauty. And that was only a five-incher. Fireworks in those days came in even more lethal and exotic varieties. None, however, was more potent, more awesome, than the ne plus ultra of the fireworks world - the Dago bomb. (This was never construed as an anti-Italian name, by the way, being more pro than anything else.) A thing of exquisite symmetry, it came in four sizes: the five-inch, the eight-inch, the ten-inch and the sure death. In more effete circles it was known as an ''aerial bomb",- but among real fireworks fans it was most often known as "the Dago heister." It actually, looked like those giant nonexistent firecrackers that occasionally show up in cartoons - a red, white and blue tube with a wooden base stained dark green, and a long red fuse.

Theoretically, this infernal machine was to be lit by an expert hand. It would then explode with the first, or lesser, explosion, which propelled an aerial charge of pure white TNT into the ambient air, theoretically vertical, for several hundred feet, and then - devastation! - not once, but several times, depending on the size of the bomb. It was not cheap, the smallest going for fifty cents and the largest for around three dollars, which in the days of the Depression was truly a capital investment. The mere sight of one of the larger specimens on the shelves of a fireworks stand sent waves of awe and excitement through the sparkler buyers. It was truly the big time."

- Jean Shepherd, Ludlow Kissell and the Dago Bomb that Struck Back

[ProtectOurFreedom]

He wins the hat pin...

[BerryDingle]

"I didn't put that much powder in it" "You didn't?,
you mean I didn't?"

[peteyd]

To his family,sorry for your loss.
The obvious:”heads will roll”over this incident.

[Chode]