Note to self: Store dynamite AWAY from the box of candles.
A couple of other postings if anyone cares to scan thru them
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3685680/posts
Connecticut woman blows off fingers after mistaking dynamite for candle ^
Woman Hospitalized After Lighting Dynamite Rather Than Candle (Not Florida - this time) ^
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3685722/posts
Some detective work is warrented here.
Yeah, THAT is illegal.
M80, made in Mexico or China.
1/4 stick of dynamite? She’d be dead.
This sounds like an industrial firework.
Do not post what you were thinking please.
Gadzooks Imp, Big-- Didn't one of ya'll once date an old, one armed gal... 
from Connecticut?
Now that, right there, was potentially a truly great Darwin Award in the making...alas, no such luck.
Darwin award.
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
Another reason to dispose of all the crap “left behind by the previous owner.”
Duh, G-A-S-O-L-I-N-E, Water!
—my byline applies—
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.
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!
