firecracker... please
Posted on 01/25/2014 3:59:55 PM PST by smokingfrog
An explosion from a firecracker inside a moving Jeep blew off the driver's hand early Saturday and scattered debris over half a block in Spokane, prompting initial fears over the man's intent, police and neighbors said.
Witnesses saw a flash of light from inside the vehicle, a red Jeep with a gray top, as it drove down a residential street, police said.
Donald Wilkes, 61, said the blast rattled his house and woke up everyone inside. He initially thought someone had crashed into his parked truck, and when he ran outside, he found the street filled with smoke and the Jeep stopped just against his 6-foot-tall cedar fence.
"I looked around for something that got hit, but there was nothing," Wilkes said. "My son reached in to pull the keys out of the ignition and make sure he didn't go anywhere, and that's when we saw his hand was missing. It blew it right off at his wrist — they found part of it half a block away."
Wilkes' son, 30-year-old Nicholas, and another neighbor applied a tourniquet to the man's left arm. The man was stocky, estimated at about 28 to 30 years old, and coherent. But he wouldn't answer questions about what he had been doing, Wilkes said.
"All he did was look at my son and say, 'Oh God, oh God.' He looked like he was going to pass out," Wilkes said. "My main concern was why he was driving around my neighborhood at 1 in the morning with an explosive device."
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Near Darwin award
a firecracker did that?
firecracker... please
Daym, they don’t sell fireworks like that around
here!
I spect that was one big firecracker.
Donald Wilkes, 61, said the blast rattled his house and woke up everyone inside. He initially thought someone had crashed into his parked truck
That weren't no firecracker.
Darwin would appreciate the vast gulf between fuses and timers. Sort of a natural filter.
It must have been one of those firecrackers my mom was always worrying about.
I guess I’m lucky to still have all my digits!
There is a reason those things don’t say...
Light fuse, put car in gear, drive away.
61 years old and still has much to learn about fire crackers.
I spect that was one big firecracker.
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Maybe an M-250?
My eyebrows never did grow back right!
going by the headline, it was the Jeep that exploded
“The man was stocky, estimated at about 28 to 30 years old, and coherent. But he wouldn’t answer questions about what he had been doing, Wilkes said.”
When we were little, my dad would light cherry bombs with his cigarette and throw them out the car window, while driving during those times of the year.
I think that was taking an absurd risk, with kids in the car.
The driver doesn’t have a name, let’s call him Righty-Tighty...
Not with that hand anyway.
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