Worst 4th Of July Accidents That First Responders Have Seen (Reddit Stories r/AskReddit)

[@Motocrunk]

Happy 4th everyone, be sure not to blow your hands off!

[@scottkrafft6830]

My state has fireworks banned, so we don't see too many people with them (though some people bring 'em over from the state just next to us) but weed *is* legal so "lighting up like the 4th of July" has a TOTALLY different meaning. xD

[@trueduckcommander]

Scott Krafft sounds like your describing denver

[@Motocrunk]

Scott Krafft lmao

[@frogcultleader1811]

cameron bleasdell or anywhere in California

[@hereticslayer5721]

I will for merica

[@twotailedavenger]

Nursing home near my house had a WWII vet who stabbed three people because the sound of fireworks caused him to have some kind of PTSD freakout.

[@hylianhero1921]

I feel bad for all 4 of them

[@twotailedavenger]

@@hylianhero1921 Thankfully nobody was TOO badly hurt.

[@hylianhero1921]

@@twotailedavenger that's good. What happened to the veteran and the people who got stabbed?

[@silverbloodborne9495]

I dam this is why vets who were In a war need help

[@erikarueda8508]

@@silverbloodborne9495 Yeah ww2 vets had it real rough because they come from a time where people thought mental health didn't even exist

[@kyleknepper4016]

Legit 95% of these accidents are just people DRUNK with fireworks. Everyone acts like the fireworks are the killer but really it's the booze.

[@hotwax9376]

@Kyle Knepper And yet people say that alcohol can't kill you.

[@RoxiR10t]

Alcohol: *Makes people do horrible things and possibly kill themselves/someone else.* Everyone: Eh, seems fine, keep it legal

[@timmorris1432]

@@RoxiR10t We've already seen that making it illegal is an even worse idea, unfortunately.

[@puffpuffpass3214]

@@timmorris1432 agreed man. I got laced weed once and I bet that would of never happened if weed was always legal where I was at (it's getting legalized buy 2020 in my state though I believe)

[@victoriadipasquale1201]

Wolfin Silver They tried to make it illegal once... everyone committed a crime because they would drink it anyway

[@Dr.Bluberry]

0:16 "A drunk man in a gorilla costume on a jetski crashed into the lake dock" *Florida man:* Are you challenging me?!

[@rylants9]

Kid goes blind and deaf Me: Aw that’s sad FiReWoRk In ThE aSs

[@henrymob2651]

- RylanTS9 - fortnite is gay

[@bryanl6828]

@@henrymob2651 Games have sexulaties?

[@rylants9]

Maraud Odd I know

[@rylants9]

Maraud Odd I don’t play fortnite anymore I’m too lazy to change the pic

[@lazykirby57]

@@rylants9 just ignore him. You're free to like anything you do despite what others think. I bet he plays the game too but he gets bullied about it so he does it to others.

[@jayive34]

Not American, but we have a similar holiday on June 24th here in Quebec. Every year, in my city, there's a huge bon fire to celebrate that holiday. There's a rumor that one year, a very drunk guy tried to climb a the top of the bon fire. He died before reaching it. I always thought it was an urban legend, until I took a security guard class. Our teacher was at former EMT, and he was one who picked up the drunk guy's charred remains.

[@Takii2003]

Attend c dans quelle ville du Québec que tu vie?

[@jayive34]

@@Takii2003 Quebec.

[@Charlie-yv3ib]

Oof, that's my birthday

[@rugalbernstein5913]

Oh right, you guys have that religious holiday from the french colonist days huh? Weird how different countries can have completely different holidays and still celebrate them so similarly.

[@Takii2003]

@@rugalbernstein5913 no, in Quebec "la Saint-Jean-Baptiste" is not a religious holiday, but is more considered as a national holiday. Because of the patriots

[@leilanigoodman3536]

Now I'm going to be extremely paranoid around fireworks. Thanks for letting me know of what could happen!

[@annanicholson5309]

Gallifrey

[@japanpanda2179]

The only ones I'd ever use are the sparklers. Yes I know, they get incredibly hot, but at least you have more control over them.

[@TheMan-WhoIsIt]

*B R U H M O M E N T* We had a very big firework and I stood right next to it I was fine

[@notdrbright8927]

Don’t, just don’t, I do not like being near lit or inactive fireworks....for.......reasons.... Some idiot lit a firework one day when I was younger (mothers story) and 10 seconds later screams were audible....people shouting to call 911 Keep in mind this a tourist island and well...............no one knew the address of where they were and no one knew the emergency number, eventually people called including my mother (despite not having an address for the incident) idk what happened after....

[@dehvun7]

Good that's smart

[@jiminstinyhands7776]

shocked that my family never ended up in the hospital cuz when i was a kid we used to set off our own blackcats, mortars, rockets, and chasers and the worst that happened was a some superficial burns. makes me realize how lucky we are.

[@Tech_Traveler]

Yeah that was just a part of life. And if you weren't being too stupid everything was fine.

[@jiminstinyhands7776]

@@Tech_Traveler its easy to be kinda stupid when its mostly kids and teenagers (we were at the time) setting the fireworks off lol

[@ASH4Ix]

I like to call this holiday "Natural Selection Day." More countries should have days like this.

[@danielmcdermott7785]

They do! They're just spread out over the year! In austria for example we have 3 or 4 of these days

[@kingsempire4270]

It's raining Darwin awards

[@ASH4Ix]

@@danielmcdermott7785 America needs more.

[@AndoraAmore]

I only feel bad for the kids who aren't taught any better and the people with PTSD (Fireworks can be the worst for them.)

[@ASH4Ix]

@@AndoraAmore Same.

[@Duvmasta]

Nothing’s more patriotic than getting massive hand trauma from a firework

[@saltysoysauce954]

We lose a hand for those who lost their life

[@Duvmasta]

SaltySoySauce an eye for an eye huh?

[@suspiciousgoop]

Damn, I wish I commented this- it’s funny.

[@kaydwessie296]

Me clicking this: I bet it'll be funny idiots Me now: I'm depressed

[@rosenrot234]

The one about how they attached his hand to his groin to let the hand heal for awhile. That's actually pretty cool. Hilarious too but mostly cool that we can do that with medicine nowadays.

[@katiebittle2940]

As someone who just burned their nose, hands, hair, and leg with a firework that tipped over, stay safe kids :))

[@tvaholicsquidney]

I would just like to say that I hope you are on the mend and you make a full recovery with no lasting scars. I was at this firework show on 5th november (UK holiday called bonfire night) and I went to this firework display when I was about 12/13 with a couple of friends and their mum at this elderly residential home and it was a professional person setting the fireworks off yet one fell over, luckily nobody got hurt as it hit the building but that scared me and even now over 10 years later I'm still a bit wary around fireworks and would much rather stay indoors and watch the fireworks than be outside in case this happens again and I get hit by one.

[@TV-8-301]

Reading/listening to gore stories of maiming by fireworks, the equivalent of watching Christmas specials for this holiday

[@remotelysuspiciousname4462]

I remember a story from when I was little that a guy had been driving around smoking a cigarette and lighting a group of firecrackers he had sitting on his lap, and throwing them out of the window, he ended up with embers falling on the firecrackers and melting his nuts.

[@Syn_X1e]

Oh shit

[@SegaDream131]

When a buddy of mine was a kid he was sitting on top of a manhole cover and hitting emptied 22 shells because the igniter would pop..... Well he blew a cap into his sac....

[@jackolanterns9974]

Today my family called them because someone put fireworks in a port-a-potty and it caught fire. ( There was also beer bottles at the scene. )

[@Kajinking]

Had a family gathering. One family member was launching off fireworks from the driveway when one fell over and proceeded to blast shells into side of a BRAND new silver car that belonged to a cousin.

[@davidalex565]

This is why I was only allowed to set of smoke bombs and snakes on the 4th growing up... my parents where smart because I was a dumb kid...

[@RaccoonWithRabies]

All these storys make me absolutely terrified of fireworks + liqour, but GODDAMNIT, 4th of july (or, New Year's Eve if you're a goddamn kraut like me) is just way too fun. Every year I think about not doing the whole "Throwing frickin dynamite while drunk" part, but then someone hands me one of my beloved sparkly explody-sticks and i just CANNOT restist the temptation. I feel this is going to end badly some day.

[@BTiffney71]

Happy 4th of July, are you already drunk?

[@RaccoonWithRabies]

@@BTiffney71 Nah, I don't live in the US, I don't celebrate 4th of july. I just mean holidays _like_ 4th of july, in general.

[@Tech_Traveler]

Hey just don't get over confident, and you will be fine.

[@cloroxbleach808]

When I was like 8 I accidentally burnt myself with a firework. As and 8 year old that shit was excruciating, but looking back knowing I couldn’t lost a hand makes me think how lucky I got off. Regardless, after the burn happened I vowed to never fire a firework for 2 years. When those years were over, I had completely lost the desire to pop any at that point.

[@AllenTax]

Hopefully you won't end up like the one kid in story who lost his sense of sight. Then again you can loose sight,hear and touch or your limbs, hey maybe if really bad lucked. You get your face and crotch burned as girl in other story.

[@dervy1309]

moral of the thread: always make sure your firework mortars are stable before lighting them and make sure to never hold a lit firework for more than a few seconds. thankfully no accidents happened today when i was lighting fireworks. when i used them all up i went and grabbed a beer and watched some other people's fireworks. good times.

[@lesyriad]

NO never hold a lit firework. I have seen fuses malfunction and burn up and ignite the firework instantly. Story time: So I was lighting firecrackers and not small ones but ones called cowboy crackers. You cant even buy them anymore :( Anyway I put it on the ground, light the fuse, see the fuse burn up instantly, have just enough time to turn my head away before it goes off. I got hit by a small rock it threw with the explosion. Luckly no major damage just a bruise. But moral of the story is NEVER EVER light a firework while holding it, unless of course it is designed to be held like sparklers.

[@Riansend]

@@lesyriad you hold roman candlesticks and the 10lb bigger ones

[@alexcutionman4569]

I wiped out on a bike at Scout camp in 2017. On 4th of July. No one in ER

[@VAPORCHROME]

Speaking of bikes, just yesterday I drove past a gnarly scene. Apparently some biker got completely mauled at an intersection, and he was everywhere. blood smeared all along the road. stay safe mate

[@brunoraoni]

@@VAPORCHROME Had a friend who did road cleanup duty, he lost count on how many people he had to shovel off the road because they look like hamburgers, they smelled like one too. Suffice to say, he couldn't eat any type of meat without thinking about his work for 6 months.

[@ImThe5thKing]

@@brunoraoni That's absolutely disgusting. Oh my god.

[@brunoraoni]

@@ImThe5thKing If you think that's bad, burnt human corpses smell like actual barbeque and oh, u know how in cartoons when a huge truck run over something with its wheels that said something becomes a paper or a pancake? that actually realistic if a truck or any massive vehicle manages to run over someone with all its wheels. How do I know? like I said a had a friend who used to clear roads as a job and I got to see all these corpses in videos when I got my permit to haul dangerous cargo.

[@rugalbernstein5913]

TheRedHuskie the heads don’t stay intact though do they? I kinda imagine they’d probably break open like a gross meaty watermelon.

[@dr.bright8020]

"Well crap, this is gonna hurt in the morning." 😂😂😂

[@Azeriiall]

0:16 A drunk man, in a gorilla costume, on a jet ski Now that’s something you don’t see everyday!

[@JasonO-rq5fb]

Kinda sounds like Gta ngl.

[@gummybearstudios4163]

moral of the story, don't drink and light fireworks. They're really fun but also dangerous as hell.

[@skydashplays9703]

Literally 2 hours ago I had an earthquake in la California about a 6.4 also happy 4th of July.

[@cassidyjohnson8480]

Oh, you too? Dude, it happened near Mammoth Mountain.

[@leilanigoodman3536]

@@cassidyjohnson8480 and skydash plays you guys okay?

[@cassidyjohnson8480]

I'm far away from where that happened, but thanks for being concerned.

[@jawsplayz]

skydash plays texas atm, would had gotten the earthquake if i went back early

[@leilanigoodman3536]

@@cassidyjohnson8480No problem

[@Ojfanta]

I almost started a brush fire at a campground with friends with one of those mortar boxes you are supposed to bury before setting off, we just lit it, it tipped over and stared launching mortars in random bursts over a 360 degree angle, some of them got under my car, and others went down the hill into the thick brush, fortunately it rained earlier that day and nothing caught fire. lol

[@abigailsmith3696]

"lol"

[@Hellsong89]

Thankfully our custom have fireworks only on new year, witch is on winter with lots of snow, so there is only few "what were you thinking" type of accidents regarding fires, mostly being idiot firing one from window and setting curtains on fire, or shooting one under the house roof setting that on fire... or idiots torching their cars.. Of course personal injuries come top of that and multitude of blown mail boxes.. then again i think its better that idiots can blow them selfs up properly and not just injury them selfs and responsible people should have access to proper explosives for stump removal for instance.

[@axlneztsosie3176]

Same thing happened to me except it was dry everything caught fire called the fire department but by the time they came me nd some neighbors put it out by than.

[@77wkly]

My dad was lighting fireworks yesterday. We got to one, and we lit one as a normal human. It exploded. If he was standing a second longer where he was, he would be no more and I would have passed out. I also felt the earthquake in southern California :)

[@mepezu2640]

My best friend said her neighbor lost his pointer finger, middle finger, and ring finger a few years ago. My family doesn’t really do fireworks, but if we do, we light it and we back up as far as possible. This year, I just had a cookout with family.

[@mikek3252]

Honestly i would rather have a cookout

[@brandonwilliams4050]

The one with the deaf kid is both horrifying and rage inducing. I hope the kids responsible spent the rest of their childhoods/adolescences in some sort of juvenile jail.

[@dethkruzer]

Frankly I wouldn't blame the parents for tracking down the bully and permanently maiming them in some way.

[@peepodiv1710]

I read that this guy lit off a big firework and it fell over going right through this guys chest killing him instantly. Worst part, it was in front of kids between the age of 4-9. R.I.P.

[@Vernal_Sky]

How does a firework manage to get through a body? Wtf was he messing with?

[@z_rock8391]

My girlfriend’s grandfather was a EMT and he told me a story on the 4th of July 3 little boys were playing with fireworks in the house. The house caught on fire. When his ambulance showed up to the scene, none of the firefighters went in to see if anyone was inside. He ended up going in the house alone and finding two boys in the bathroom. He grabbed them and took them outside. The two boys said they’re brother was still inside. So he went back in to find him but ended up getting burnt really bad (3rd degree all over both his arms). They later found the boys body in the same bathroom he grabs the boys in. He has crazy scars from skin graphs on his arms and back. He told me he has such regret not grabbing the 3rd kid in the bathroom. It haunts him everyday. Nicest and most caring guy I’ve ever gotten to know.

[@sewsomuch2289]

Makes me realise how lucky I was when I was a kid and had a firework shot at my face, hit my hair first which deflected it from my face and not injured. Was soooooo mad when my dad made me come inside

[@andrewdotcom6770]

When I was little I didn’t believe my mom when she said the top of the sparkler was hot so I grabbed it and found out pretty quick that she wasn’t lying

[@ThelagKingStrikes]

My grandma was camping at their permanent spot, and some delinquents packed their fire poker (they used a small metal pipe with a cap on one end) with bottle rockets. My grandma noticed something down the pipe and wanted to take a closer look. Just as she did they lit up and smashed into her face. Her face was basically obliterated and she still has crazy scars to this day.

[@FrankDad]

One of my neighbors is an er nurse. Someone went into a Chinese restaurant, naked, with a chainsaw, went into the bathroom, and cut off his leg, it was hanging on by a thread.

[@corsaircarl9582]

This brings me back to the olden times of the 90's, where my friends and I would shoot Roman Candles at one another while jumping on the rich kid's trampoline. The game was called "Don't Get Hit". The objective of the game? Don't get hit.

[@woods2424]

should have called it "Survive"

[@labyrinthgirl17]

The most I've ever been around when it came to 4th of July stuff is sparklers. At worst, a couple one degree burns that were gone by the next day, so I didn't even need a bandage. However, my brother once bought this little box of fireworks? They were called "Wolf Pack" and he threw them on the ground to make a snapping sound, until he got bored and started throwing them at me; left little pink marks on my legs for about a week. He wasn't allowed to get those again.

[@vincenthaynes3603]

speaking of fireworks, I was at my grandma's house this Monday, and we talked about dad who had thrown a repeater in the fire. it blew up. everyone panicked that night. (about 30 years ago.) like an hour later, A emoji repeater tips over and we noticed it after the second rocket hit the tree. Dad and Kevin panicked. a spark lands on my eyebrow. red colored I believe. when it started i said "Oh Crap!" Kevin lit it, and thought a second one would be funny, so he did it. at least it went okay the second time.

[@vincenthaynes3603]

This happened by Niles,Michigan. the Emoji Repeater was from Sky King.

[@doggoswoofwoof]

Didn't Witness it personally and it was on Canada Day (3 days prior) not 4th of July. this story comes from a family friend who was a firefighter in Halifax, Nova Scotia the city used to set off fireworks on top of this big hill that's home to a old military base called Citadel Hill, but one year one of the fireworks tipped over and it went under a fire truck and lit the fire truck on fire ...now they shoot them off the bridge into the Halifax Harbour.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

I was in Great Lakes Naval Training Center, in 1995, and there was a HUGE fireworks and laser lightshow arranged by MWR (Welfare and Recreation org)... A mortar tube fell over and sent one of the bombs THROUGH A WINDOW of one of the BEQ's (Barracks, basically) to blow the ass out of that side of the building. I can't say for absolutely sure, but since there wasn't a "safety stand-down", there probably wasn't anyone seriously injured or killed... SOOOooo lucky. ;o)

[@connorwilliams5785]

In 2014, on July 5th. I was bit by a copperhead and spent 28 hours in hospital. Was trying to get the snake away from my brother.

[@raphaeldagamer]

my family set off fireworks for the fourth, and nobody got hurt, but I was a supergenius and took my headphones outside with me so that the noise would bother me less. for context, I am very sensitive to sounds, as well as tastes and smells, so the headphones helped with that.

[@abigailw.9765]

My dad was struck by lightning during a freak storm on a 4th of July camping trip. He didn't survive the trip to the hospital.

[@clubwojak8148]

wish my vids would blow up like 4th of july accident

[@pupisuci]

Too bad they wont

[@clubwojak8148]

@get ur ketchup thank you bro for real hahahaha

[@emma-jogill1032]

I subbed lol

[@clubwojak8148]

@@emma-jogill1032 you guys are legendary, thank you

[@clubwojak8148]

@德taegi. Hell yeah! thank you this is awesome :), would love to get some comments on what you think of the voice in my most recent vid

[@annabellewannabelle]

And this is why I stayed inside in my room all day

[@lazykirby57]

Did the same. But played video games

[@annabellewannabelle]

LazyKirby57 that’s the life right there

[@users47283]

I almost had a full blown panic attack one time during 4th of july I was kid and was never scared of fireworks before

[@KnakuanaRka]

Ah, 4th of July. Alcohol plus fireworks is a disaster waiting to happen.

[@jdawg3074]

The first bit was literally the first time I’ve heard a TTS pronounce Utah correctly

[@Steven_McCrae]

got half a thumb from being a clown with fireworks....got a tattoo of "to be continued" on it now

[@SentaiYamaneko]

Take this as a valuable lession: keep fireworks away from children and drunk people. The worst times for American doctors are July 4th and Christmas. So many people get drunk together in large groups, and disasters happen.

[@ziolan8970]

Imagine waking up after being blackout drunk with your hand sewn to your groin and mortar burns into your abdominal muscles

[@jackpot7570]

Saw a guy last year who left his garage door open. A firework accidentally fired off into the garage which had gasoline in it. Not only did he lose his house, both of his cars, and almost lost his only daughter, but i heard his wife also passed away about a week or so before the accident

[@OhShizzlesItsBethy]

As a Californian, a 6.4 earthquake struck at 10:40 in the morning on the 4th of July, and lots of water from the pool spilled out. Then we got another earthquake the next day and it was a 7.1, causing a lot of photo frames hanging on the wall falling and shattering. Fortunately, both did not come from the San Andreas fault.

[@itsLalm]

i am fairly glad canada day isn't as extreme, fairly sure the black out drunk part is consistant though

[@QueenSunstar]

My Grandpa was a Surgeon. The worst forth of July injury he has seen was the guy who blew his jaw and entire face off. He was rushed to my Grandpa by ambulance. He managed to stabilize the guy and rode with the medics to the hospital where he spent six hours repairing what he could of the guys face. He managed to save the guys eyesight. It took a bunch of surgeries to repair the guys face, and my Grandpa took part in each one. The guys face looks pretty normal now. You can see some scarring around his left eye and below his right ear. That's testament to my Grandpa's skill. He didn't specialize in any area. He did it all.

[@cruros9084]

This, my friends, is why I have never, and will never, light a firework in my life.

[@roguelegend2647]

It's two face not the red skull

[@labella9291]

3:15 Absolute bold face lie. People with injuries THAT severe would NOT just be sitting around in the ER. Both of them would be in rooms, being prepped for surgery.

[@harris9101]

This Is better than any safety video I have ever watched.

[@hiraeth2314]

My friend got his arm blown off. He's fine now though. He wears a prosthetic arm with a hook at the end to scare people, but he has a normal model as well. Pretty chill about it.

[@hotwax9376]

This is the reason I would never try to light my own fireworks. They're dangerous enough that they are best left to professionals.

[@x.shiz1]

I'm watching this at home bcs we can't watch fireworks nor we can lit up some bcs it's raining 🤷‍♀️ also last year it rain so....damn sad

[@ainemckenna3912]

I was in the hospital today for a check up and an American family walked in panicking because a 4th of July party went wrong , I saw the dad's hand covered in blood 😐

[@peytonforster1120]

There was a Fourth of July party in my rural neighborhood a few years ago. Apparently the owner of the property made a large homemade mortar tube. Whenever he lit up a mortar inside the tube, the explosion for lift-off blew out the bottom of the tube. The pieces of the tube flew about everywhere and no one was truly injured except for a 3 year-old girl visiting the family. She was hit in the head and she died instantly. Another time I was with my father. He lives in a Suburban area and everyone lives close together. He also made a custom mortar tube. This one was wood on the bottom and the tube was just normal PVC piping. This was all before the toddler's death. The bottom blew out like the other incident and the firework dodged my brother and my father and myself and hit the garage door and blew up. None of us were injured and my dad blamed my brother and I for it, but that's normal lol. Needless to say no one in my area makes homemade mortar tubes anymore. Edit: spelling

[@Warhero1171]

This is a lot more depressing than I thought it would be.

[@donaldtrumpwithasmallloano8666]

Some of these stories just blow my mind

[@palmspirit1833]

Wow. The guy that taped fireworks to his helmet. Wow.

[@seattlewest9503]

So nobody's going to say anything about the poor coyote that was going to get blown up while trying to feed itself? I wish the guy would've gotten more damage for trying to kill an innocent animal like that!!!! I hate people like him

[@BackupPlans1]

He took a pocketknife to the groin. I think he learned his lesson.

[@couchgaming5577]

Coyotes are evil creatures. They’re pests. The more you can kill, the better.

[@HikerChick2]

He’s a psycho

[@SkedaddleSkedoo]

The first one effected me a lot, I live in a section of Utah county that was all dry grass so, we went to our grandma’s house who lives right next to the fire department, and the fire trucks were going in and out the whole time we were shooting fire works off.

[@kyaatt]

my family often makes fun of me for being scared of fireworks and sparklers... well who’s terrified NOW, mom (the answer is still me)

[@DoctorRobertNeville]

did security for 2 years, one night the emts come driving in with a patient on a gurney trying very hard not to laugh. patient was laying on his stomach groaning in severe pain. emts came outside after a while, and as soon as the door closed burst out laughing. I asked them what are they laughing about. they said the idiot on the gurney decided it would be a good idea to light one of his farts. it burned all the hair on his butt, and back. Moral of the story don't light your farts on fire kiddos.

[@xKDxx]

My uncle took all the rocks out from a package of pop-its, put it in an Altoids container and shook it. He's lucky he still has his eye.

[@thekagawalife2081]

That deaf kid who lost his sight...oh my gosh... I took ASL in high school and learning to speak and listen to people while deaf-blind is very, very difficult, and isn’t always accurately translated. I can’t imagine this kid having to completely change the way he knows how to communicate. Helen Keller had it from birth, so it was a little easier for her, but he‘ll have to work even harder to learn that... Why the fuck would any sane person do that to a deaf child?!

[@Gumbier_Than]

My niece (marriage) needed hearing aids when she was younger. Fucking classmates would take them from and throw them to where she could't retrieve them!! Never in my life did I want a bunch of shitty young people to get sent to military camp and get their heads busted as bad as when I learned that.

[@StormWolf01]

I didn't know that lighting one's own fart on fire could be dangerous. When i was in high school, a friend and i had a phase were we would compete for the best flaming fart. It was actually fun, and the fart had no smell, as most of it went up into flame. It was always a bright orange flame. We never got injured.

[@squidgamer-wu4kb]

“a drunk man in a gorilla costume on a jet ski” is one sentence I thought I would never hear but im glad i did

[@MajBuffalo]

Medical field people must be the worst parents just because of how overprotective they are lol

[@BelenusValikonis]

I learned how to dance one 4th of July as a kid. Fireballs shooting across the yard at ankle-level make for a compelling dance lesson. Once the first one connects, you really find your groove!

[@JEE946]

How fitting, I nearly lost my thumb on the 4th this year

[@JV-fo4uo]

The worst 4th of July injury I've seen is a piece of mind flayer inside of Eleven's leg in Stranger Things 3.

[@boop1286]

Firework guide!! First off, ask yourself “Am I drunk?” If so, don’t not continue Firecrackers: Keep distance Fireworks: Keep Large distance Sparklers: hold away from body and by the bottom of the rod The little things you throw at the ground that pop: Not at people Roman candles: Don’t Mortars: Dont

[@woods2424]

dont with roman candles and mortars, unless you have them buried, in a wide open field, people viewing far from them

[@boop1286]

Black Circle Exactly

[@harunai]

It's scary how much of these involve alcohol. This is the one day of the year you should NOT be drinking.

[@raesreasraeswrasdresa1091]

Yay another upload

[@cursedcliff7562]

Ah yes now i see why my dad is so strict with firework

[@citizen2706]

Moral of the stories: THERE ARE NO DUDS.

[@notdrbright8927]

My mother is a lawyer who has had several cases in which fireworks have blown up in peoples faces....and hands....... Unpleasant

[@ShiningDialga]

This is why I think fireworks need to be illegal nationwide. You get people who are already a few crayons short of a box loaded with alcohol, handling what are essentially explosives, all in close proximity to other people and their property. Too many people get injured and killed every year, and take away emergency services from those who weren't poor excuses for human beings.

[@dbseamz]

To clarify: PERSONAL fireworks should be illegal nationwide. Your points are all quite valid, but they do not apply to the professional shows put on by highly trained officials with all sorts of safety precautions and special permits. Not to mention that most professional fireworks displays are either free or very cheap to watch on-site, and all of them are free if you find a public space with a good view. And the fireworks used in those shows are far more impressive than the kind just anyone can buy.

[@owenhambley8636]

Kiwis fighting over volleyball 🤣😂

[@itsyoooboyy5102]

I'm first to a video with notifications WHAT Edit:na like 10 seconds behind the first guy

[@ActualChrist]

Happened to me but on a different video its depessing

[@piggi5xtheawesome973]

Boat catches on fire but everyone lives (next story) _gallbladders everywhere_

[@jaakkotoivola4876]

6:10 wait... did the kid hold the firework on top his head for a minute while the the firework was burning a huge hole in his head? Did I miss something?

[@FirstnameLastName-mr8lk]

He taped it to the helmet and lit it which made it burn through

[@blackhawks81H]

@@FirstnameLastName-mr8lk And then apparently forgot to take the helmet off. Or something. I just don't know about that story. I've been a firefighter for years and have seen FIRE HELMETS get so hot they melted and dripped onto people's heads. Scalp burns, sure. But to melt through a skull? I mean, what did he have a bucket of thermite on top of his head? And even then.. Bone doesn't burn or melt very easily as it's made of a lot of calcium which can survive nearly up to 2000 degrees F.

[@FirstnameLastName-mr8lk]

@@blackhawks81H No he put it left it on to do wat they do in cartoons where they fly across the world with a firework on their head lol

[@redlupo6193]

@@blackhawks81H Not to mention he never removed it (or even bent his head so it fell off) in a full *sixty seconds* ?

[@ianmoseley9910]

Red Lupo probably used the chin strap and t.hen panicked,

[@bluepup350]

I never got hurt through all this but every year my family recycles cans for firework money for the whole neighborhood and we regularly buy fireworks called artillery shells. I always helped to prep these things because there were so many ways for them to go wrong we bunched them up by the 4 to 8 so that its safer for us when lighting them. However there’s always a chance that one will misfire in the tube. (The tube would fall over) Of course we thought of this and used large planks of wood and bricks to protect the audience as well as nailing the tubes to a plank of wood. This time I happened to be behind the wall because I was trying to warn a number of people sitting not to far behind it that there could be a misfire at any time once we start lighting artillery shells. As I am walking over I hear them start to go off then (without my knowledge) a 8 tubes got tipped over when 2 shells misfired and began shooting at me, mind you I had no clue this whole thing was happening so I was just jumping around and dodging the flying missiles assuming a fountain firework had tipped over. The worst part was is that artillery shells usually explode many times and have multiple stages of explosions. Somehow managed to avoid a total of about 10-18 artillery shells being shot directly at me. The people who I was supposed to warn were never in the crossfire and I was the only one dodging them as if I was a video game character. This happened when I was 12 I am now 14. And I still love fireworks and lighting them off to spite all that. Edit : this took the whole video to type

[@ameliarose47]

Well I’m glad you guys took precautions so the damage was minimal. Glad you’re ok! (Also glad you weren’t right up on them and we’re far enough back you had the distance to dodge them!)

[@dbseamz]

The Who,e video? Try the pause button!

[@AutumnSwift2]

This was many years ago. My mom, sister and I we're all sitting in the middle of the lawn in lawn chairs. As the firework goes off, it falls over towards us and hits my mom's thigh. I've been scared of them sense and become jumpy even if I feel I'm too close.

[@d.e.b.b5788]

Every year, we get at least one moron who's blown off some fingers. Almost always has drinking involved. But the funniest one, was the doctor who brought in his own fireworks to his estate, and proceeds to set the first one off, which tips over and blows through his new car's window, setting it on fire. All he said was, 'OH, shit, I don't think insurance is going to cover that'. And it didn't. Fortunately, the fire dept arrived pretty quick, and there wasn't much property damage. But of course, he had to live with all the 'hot time', 'hot car', 'blow out party', etc., jokes at his expense for a very long time.

[@jtifrl4978]

Always wear these protection glasses

[@dbseamz]

I'm only about 35% into the video, but it's already made clear the PSA: Either stay away from (light-it-yourself) fireworks, or stay away from alcoholic beverages. Better yet, stay away from both. My city has a fairly small ski area which is obviously not being used in the summer, so the professional show is launched from about halfway up the main ski hill. They actually let people sit and watch in the flat area between the lodge and the base of the slope, so not only is there approximately zero delay between the flash and the boom, you can clearly hear and even see the smaller explosion that shoots the fireworks into the air. This year there seemed to be two main cannons, alternating which one fired, until the finale. THAT cannon looked more like the result if a volcano decided to erupt in time with a drum solo. Thankfully, the closest we came to an accident was a few embers from a huge "waterfall"-effect blast got scarily close to the ground, which must have been wet down or something because even those I saw land didn't do anything. The entire lodge area and parking lot were pretty hazy with smoke afterwards, but I could tell it was much worse at the launch site.

[@lillian19501]

I'm from salt lake city, and i can tell you, almost every year we have some accident related to fireworks, a couple years ago fireworks shot into a crowd, severely injuring several people. and then like 3 years ago sugarhouse park caught on fire and i watched it happen from my job, it was a pretty big fire, i thought it was burning down the training table (it wasn't it stayed in the park). those are just the ones i remember. also we celebrate the 4th and the 24th.

[@kyleshamah2518]

Happy 4 of July everyone !

[@princerichard3159]

It’s the one story with the kid literally melting his head through the construction helmet from the fireworks for me. GODAMN.

[@ransolblack8177]

I was six when my family were using fireworks at New Years. I don’t know what happened exactly but it tipped over and started firing at us. I will never forget the screams of my family as I jumped over a fireball and diving in a bush. It was the funniest thing in my life.

[@kyoza8258]

Well does it count if My parents called me worthless on July 4th 2016? That word is in my head and it won't leave. July 4th isn't my thing anymore I just get reminded of that word...

[@emilialavil2618]

My fourth is cancelled due to horrible rain. Hope you guys enjoy yours!