Posted on 09/09/2018 7:52:05 AM PDT by mandaladon
A Connecticut woman suffered serious injuries Thursday night after she mistakenly lit a stick of dynamite thinking it was a candle during a power outage. Authorities said the 30-year-old mother of two got involved in the “tragic accident” when her family’s Bridgeport home lost power during a thunderstorm Thursday night and she “attempted to light” what she believed were candles in the basement left behind by the previous residents, CBS Boston reported.
The family attempted to purchase emergency lighting at a Home Depot store, but discovered the store had closed. Out of desperation, they decided to rummage through their basement to find candles that would provide light.
But when the woman lit one of the “candles,” she accidentally ignited a quarter stick of dynamite and caused it to explode in her hand.
“She attempted to light one of what she thought was the candle and turned out to be a quarter stick of dynamite,” police said.
Authorities say the woman suffered severe injuries to her hand and face and could lose several fingers as a result of her injuries.
All family members were home at the time of the incident, but no other injuries had been reported. WABC reported that the force of the explosion was strong enough to blow out one of the windows inside the home.
Bridgeport Fire Department officials and Connecticut State Police searched the home for other explosives and removed another dynamite device. State police officers later disposed of the device.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Franz Liebkind: Gentlemen. Ve have here a technical problem. Hmm? I do not know if vat ve have here is ze quick burning fuse or ze slow buring fuse. Ja, ja, I must find zis out.
[snips dynamite fuse]
Franz Liebkind: Zis is critical.
[lights fuse with match]
Franz Liebkind: Ha ha ha, ja ja, you see zis? You see zis here vat I have told you? Yeah, zis is an example of smartness here. I have said that zis is ze quick fuse. Huh? And zis IS ze quick fuse.
[pause]
All: THE QUICK FUSE!
Gotta hand it to her.
She really blew her chances at being a sing language interpreter
But, I doubt that she will finger the person responsible for storing the dynamite.
“just as the article said: “
The article says dynamite. Your link is not dynamite.
Another reason to dispose of all the crap “left behind by the previous owner.”
Duh, G-A-S-O-L-I-N-E, Water!
LOL
Thought about posting that or a meme...
My first thought.
Thanks for the link. Here is a key quote
“The term quarter stick is based on a quarter-stick of dynamite, which it somewhat resembles. However, quarter stick firecrackers do not contain nitroglycerin as dynamite does, and have far less explosive power.”
For a minute, I thought it said “Sparkling and Religious.” Would have been an interesting combination.
I really hate it when that happens!!!
—my byline applies—
“1/4 stick of dynamite? She’d be dead. This sounds like an industrial firework.”
I dealt with and trained a lot of men on the care and use of high explosives during my time in the Army Corps of Engineers, both here and in RVN.
You are absolutely correct.
Dynamite needs the force of a blasting cap to set it off. It is not inserted till just before the blast. If she lit a real stick of dynamite, it would only burn.
I’ll put my money on a firework.
A blasting cap, by itself, is vicious, they will mangle or remove a hand.
Add a quarter stick of dynamite, large cloud of pink spray.
W/o reading the commentary, I can clear up some question about the “quarter stick of Dynamite” baloney.
Dynamite in a 4 oz quantity, held in the hands would not only blow off both hands, forearms and probably most of the tissue on the head/face and torso, but also probably blow out all the windows in the house and damage everyone inside to varying degrees based on proximity to the blast.
However, a large firecracker certainly would damage your fingers and hand etc, but other than incidental frag/blast effects, leave you otherwise surviving.
How do I know? I spent more than a decade as a combat engineer either employing or supervising the employment of military explosives from Dynamite, TNT and the rest of the of the deflagration family of chemical compounds.
The cap would do what is described by itself.
This was a firecracker, perhaps a large one.
I blame Home Depot for daring to close.
Racists!
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