Firecraacker Blows Off Drivers Hand

[Classic]

Looks like the old M-80. Last time I bought those they were pretty puny. Are these really that powerful and available?

The article says it blew out windows on the jeep and knocked off the dashboard in addition to the digital damage. Wow.

Firecracker blast blows off driver's hand in Wash. - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

 

[Mackey]

The story says the dude who lost his hand wouldn't answer questions from the locals about what he was doing. I'm thinking he was up to no good of course but if the blast bless out the jeeps window and took his hand off at the wrist, I'm guessing he couldn't hear much.

 

[Principal Skinr]

You know, if he was out trying to scare someone or do some kind of prank, it sure looks like poetic justice. However, losing a hand is a bit severe. Then again, we don't know what the heck he was up to. I'm gonna watch some media from Spokane the next couple of days to see if they figure out, as Paul Harvey would say, "The rest of the story!"

 

[SMiller]

1am driving around a neighborhood while lighting fireworks is up to no good!

They found his hand a 1/2 block away lol

 

[eldirector]

Article says M-1000
https://www.atf.gov/publications/factsheets/factsheet-illegal-explosives-devices.html

25-30 grams of explosive.

Not your average firecracker.

 

[Miller Tyme]

Looks like we have our 1st Darwin Award nominee of 2014

 

[eldirector]

Looks like we have our 1st Darwin Award nominee of 2014

He didn't blow THAT off.

 

[Miller Tyme]

The story says the dude who lost his hand wouldn't answer questions from the locals about what he was doing. I'm thinking he was up to no good of course but if the blast bless out the jeeps window and took his hand off at the wrist, I'm guessing he couldn't hear much.

Want to bet his new nickname will be "Lefty"

 

[hoosierdoc]

M-80 on left. M-1000 on right. I am curious as to what that bomb robot "defused", or does it literally mean "cut the fuse off"?

 

[chef larry]

Wonder if he was under the influence of alcohol or something else?

 

[Classic]

Article says M-1000
https://www.atf.gov/publications/factsheets/factsheet-illegal-explosives-devices.html

25-30 grams of explosive.

Not your average firecracker.

That fact sheet seemed to indicated that the legal limit was 50 milligrams of "explosive". If black powder is the explosive material, 1 gram = 15 grains. A hot load for a 45 cal. muzzle loader with a round ball might be as much as 70 grains, 70/15 = about 4.66 grams if my math is correct. M1000 = 25-30 grams or 375 grains. Wow, just WOW!

 

[Caleb]

I read an article on that, it was so poorly written, it hurts to try and comprehend it.


Where does one even get a m1000? I used to have a few m80 laying around...

 

[eldirector]

Where does one even get a m1000? I used to have a few m80 laying around...

Google it... tons of places online.

I've got a bunch of M80s in the garage.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

M-80 on left. M-1000 on right. I am curious as to what that bomb robot "defused", or does it literally mean "cut the fuse off"?

It could have been used to pull the fuses out or disrupted them with the PAN (essentially a 12 gauge shotgun that can fire different rounds specific to bomb squad).

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Wonder if he was under the influence of alcohol or something else?

It was in Washington, so it's legally possible.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

It was in Washington, so it's legally possible.

So driving under the influence of MJ is legal in Washington?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

So driving under the influence of MJ is legal in Washington?

I meant legally possible to have been in possession.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I was in a local gun store when a guy came in to trade his semi-auto for something he could operate left handed. He'd picked up a lit firework to chuck it further away and it had went off costing him his pointer and middle finger, along with the majority of his ring finger. It was one of the "sub-munitions" that was in a sky rocket that had fell back down, nowhere near as big as the sucker under discussion in this thread. He's probably lucky to escape with just a lost hand.

 

[ASD]

I used to get quarter sticks "m1000s" years ago from a guy in Delaware. Those things are no joke!! There wasn't much I couldn't blow up with one of those

 

[CathyInBlue]

That fact sheet seemed to indicated that the legal limit was 50 milligrams of "explosive". If black powder is the explosive material, 1 gram = 15 grains. A hot load for a 45 cal. muzzle loader with a round ball might be as much as 70 grains, 70/15 = about 4.66 grams if my math is correct. M1000 = 25-30 grams or 375 grains. Wow, just WOW!

That's a cannon load.