He died doing what he loved - being a drunken dumbass with access to explosives. This describes just about every American patriot I know.
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I have outlived Allen Ray McGrew, but I fear I am considerably less exciting as a person.
It's a tricky balancing act.
For any younger folks reading along - this probably wasn't anything unusual happening with the firework, itself. This happens every time. Fireworks fire a tremendous body-rending amount of force downward, to push themselves into the air.
Which is why all of my 4th of July hats include built in launch pads.
I remember reading about someone doing this exact thing every few years, though it's less common than someone blowing up their hand.
Yeah. I've read pretty much this exact story before, as well.
The versions with lost fingers don't usually make the news, but I've known enough personally to imagine it's pretty common.
I don't intentionally watch gore videos, but I unintentionally watched some drunk kid blow his hand apart with a firework some years back.
It was horrifying and all I could think of is how lucky I was as a kid, because we did some really dumb shit that could of gone just as a bad, just as fast.
But launching fireworks from your head..?!?! I was never that young, dumb, or intoxicated.
This is just about the perfect metaphor for the current state of the US.
The article is strangely silent about the smoking angle.
"He was a patriot; he was proud of his son..."
Goddammit. He reproduced.
No Darwin Award for him.