It's time for another Good Idea/Bad idea.
Good Idea: fireworks in the sky.
Bad idea: fireworks on your head.
In Calais, Maine, some dipwad named Devon Staples thought that it would be a cognizant, reflective and otherwise awesome thing to do to strap a mortar tube to his head. I don't know exactly how the fireworks themselves went; but at least his head exploded.
"There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there," said 25-year-old Cody Staples, who called it an accident.
"Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid."--Oh clearly.--"He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh," he said.
No one was laughing this time.
Staples, 22, of Calais, a small city on the Canadian border, placed a reloadable fireworks mortar tube on his head and told his friends he was going to light it, said Steven McCausland, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety. But Mr. Staples' friends urged him to stop.
"Apparently, he thought that was a great idea," McCausland said. "His friends thought they dissuaded him from doing it, and the next thing they knew, he ignited the fireworks and he was killed instantly."
I would kill for the images.
Here's the link to the article: http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-shoots-off-firework-top-head-dies-135937499.html
Good Idea: fireworks in the sky.
Bad idea: fireworks on your head.
In Calais, Maine, some dipwad named Devon Staples thought that it would be a cognizant, reflective and otherwise awesome thing to do to strap a mortar tube to his head. I don't know exactly how the fireworks themselves went; but at least his head exploded.
"There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there," said 25-year-old Cody Staples, who called it an accident.
"Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid."--Oh clearly.--"He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh," he said.
No one was laughing this time.
Staples, 22, of Calais, a small city on the Canadian border, placed a reloadable fireworks mortar tube on his head and told his friends he was going to light it, said Steven McCausland, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety. But Mr. Staples' friends urged him to stop.
"Apparently, he thought that was a great idea," McCausland said. "His friends thought they dissuaded him from doing it, and the next thing they knew, he ignited the fireworks and he was killed instantly."
I would kill for the images.
Here's the link to the article: http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-shoots-off-firework-top-head-dies-135937499.html
