Comments on: Do not explode a firecracker in your hand never (update)

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

IT WAS NOT A DAM PIPE BOMB FOR THE 100TH TIME! First of all a pipe bomb wouldnt just take off a hand it would prolly take off your whole arm and part of your torso. Secondly if holding a pipebomb you deff wouldnt survive all of the shrapnal would shred you up like bullets.

By: nat

nat — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

in india the worst things r crackers cause dey give harmful fumes!!! :P

By: real

real — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It’s real, you retards. I’ve seen “M-80′s” made with 8 grams of standard KClO4 flash powder (not the ones you can buy) go off and they will indeed f you up six times to next Sunday. They are scary loud and when lit in the middle of the street, the concussion will shake the walls of a house. They are so powerful that they cross the threshold from just having some fun to risking your life. And they are loud enough that they aren’t even cool because the cops come every time. This is 100% real and if you don’t believe it do yourself a favor and go play with some sparklers. Sheesh. Idiots!

By: John

John — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I can’t believe anyone would think that this is a myth! What?

Firecrackers as we know them don’t do this, but more powerful ones such as now-illegal M-80′s. M-90′s, from my experience, are little more than firecrackers that look like M-80′s.

I did not believe my friend when he said that an M-80 would blow a mailbox 20 feet in the air. Then he showed me, and it came down flattened out, and smoking. It’s a good thing they are illegal, I hate to say it. (i miss them)

By: fooby

fooby — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I am really amazed by some of the foolish comments here. I am a chemical engineer, and I could make something that looks like an “M-80″ that will just go “poof”, and I could make something that looks identical that could blow the windows out of your house. The fact is, until it goes off, you don’t know what it is.

By: dan smith

dan smith — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

No such thing as an “M-100″ or, “H-100″ firecracker blowing off a hand. M-100′s are merely 5 grain ‘crackers in a bigger tube, with some plaster. What caused THIS was an illict firecracker of over 5 grams–probably 20 grain (“quarter-stick”.) Maybe even some Picric Acid (A H.E. similar to T.N.T. in it) , who knows? It would have to be home made, or, by some fly-by-night. “H-100′s” never existed. Just another word for M-80. The ATF, at least, in the U.S, says any over 5 grains illegal after 1966, no matter What their name. They don’t define by generics, just composition.
No, I don’t doubt a 20-grain illicit tdoing it at all. Why isn’t he/she bleeding to death at the point photo was taken, is what I don’t understand?

By: Cherokee Dan

Cherokee Dan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I have no doubt the pictures are real. I have been making M-80 and larger (sometimes MUCH larger) salutes for over 30 years and, because I understand and respect the power of them, I still retain all my digits. After Halloween, it has become a custom for me to go to my daughters’ house to give the family jack-o-lantern a “proper” send off. One of my 3 inchers blows a very large pumpkin into many small pieces—some of which have been found well over a hundred feet away and leaves a depression in the ground where the pumpkin had been. I have commented many times to amazed spectators that, if one of those went off in your hand, it would take it off all the way to the elbow and probably kill you with shrapnel made from your bones.

By: Black Flag

Black Flag — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The difference between a firecracker blowing up in your hand doing no damage vs. losing the hand

…is the difference between holding it in a CLOSED hand or fist vs. OPEN hand.

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Fireworks under fire | Watts Up With That? — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

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By: Marked

Marked — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

To all the people tho are stupid enough to hold a firecracker in your hand: Its a fricking explosive. Explosives + Body Parts = NOTHING GOOD

By: all you peoep are stupid

all you peoep are stupid — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

all you people are stupid as shit…salutes can do this …easy less than 3g … seen it happen first hand!

By: dark vader

dark vader — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s a real news story in San Francisco about a kid who lost a hand and a leg this past weekend with M-100s:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/07/06/national/a141331D32.DTL

All I have to say is STUPID.

By: Mike manerr

Mike manerr — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I had a little normal sized firecracker ( the 1 and a half inchers) blow up in my hand. All that happend was very minor bruising nothing else

By: Janson

Janson — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

When you close your hand you hold on an m80 you are harnessing 1/8 a stick of dynamite in you hard, you close your hand, and that “harmless firecracker” has nowhere to go but to blow you hand to bits!

By: Hesher

Hesher — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Those of you who live in the U.S. probably never seen a real m-80 or a m-1000. Maybe you got one of those “Red Devil” or “TNT” brand m-80′s. Those aren’t the real thing. A firecracker held right will do no harm. Held the wrong way, can take a finger off. A m-1000 in mexico could be called a firecracker, but don’t be fooled, it is a half stick of dynomite. Dynomite, the stuff used to blow things up. So be educated, know your limits, and have fun blowin shit up (even if it is your hand)!