Fireworks Fail: the ultimate video compilation

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• [dayhat]

  At the Alice Springs Emergency Department in the Northern Territory Australia, their name for Territory Day (the only day you can buy and let off fireworks) was the festival of the four fingered child.

• [Michael Hogsett]

  Great demonstration of how stupidity, incompetence, and alcohol don’t mix well with fireworks. 

  The one that really made me cringe was the anal bottle rocket that failed to launch.  Must have been fun to explain that one at the ER.

  • [oasisob1]

     What’s to explain? They have video.

    • [Antinous / Moderator]

      A spark-shooting anus is worth a thousand words.

      • [ocker3]

         I recently heard a first-hand account of a birthday boy (man) being ‘encouraged’ to clench a firework of unknown operation between his naked butt-cheeks as the bent over. It turned out to be a fountain of sparks, which apparently singed his back.

        The instigator (storyteller) was unapologetic.

      • [Richard Mote]

         Yes, but those thousand words are “My ass is on fire!  Make it stop!” over and over again.  So, there’s that.  :-)

  • [vrplumber]

    Lets not include alcohol in the culpability.  Stupidity and incompetence are more than enough to win the day.

    Full disclosure:  I love alcohol and will be marrying it and also having its children.

• [tacochuck]

  I realize it was not presented here as funny and it wasn’t funny. Hopefully educational though.

  • [bumblebeeeeeee]

    wasn’t it? looks like it was framed as funny to me.

    • [tacochuck]

       Ya that is partially what I was trying to express. The video creators seemed to think it was funny, but I didn’t get the impression that Xeni was presenting it to the BB audience as something to laugh at and I did not find it funny.

      • [kringlebertfistyebuns]

        No, it was mostly funny.  Especially the dachshund and the last bit with the dude screaming.

  • [teapot]

    What’s not funny about dumbarses (and acquaintances of dumbarses) learning their lesson in a blaze of sparkly glory? Things can be funny and educational, you know. What I’m most shocked by is the clips that show people’s flimsy grasp of physics. No, a bottle rocket taped to you will not make you take off, it will just burn you severely.

    I found this highly entertaining. The one with the dawggie carrying the firework is freaking priceless. He’s so happy to be carrying the ‘stick’ around – with gay abandon to the terror he is causing.

    • [kringlebertfistyebuns]

      The best part is that every time the Roman Candle would fire off, he’d look to the left, trying to figure out what was going on.

    • [tacochuck]

       I understand it is popular to laugh at people doing dumb things and getting injured, it certainly gives you a satisfying sense of superiority. However, I am in the camp that actually feels no one deserves to be physically injured, even when doing dumb things.

  • [lafave]

     No. It was funny – especially the last two.

• [bumblebeeeeeee]

  cool, people getting burnt and injured, plenty of nice face shoots with potential eye injuries

  • [Sirkowski]

    Stop having fun!

    • [retepslluerb]

      Well, meh. My surgery (scheduled skin transplant due to a severe burn suffered when I was a toddler) got interrupted for about an hour – while I lay on the table – because  the same type of idiot thought it would be a good idea to fix his roof.
       

      With a power saw. After three beers. With zero protection. 

      Sometimes socialized medicine *should* send a bill.

      • [kringlebertfistyebuns]

        “how root?”

        • [retepslluerb]

          Typo, now corrected. He wanted to fix his roof.  

• [bo1n6bo1n6]

  I really dislike fireworks, but something about watching someone fire a rocket up their ass makes me chuckle… If only Darwin was here to see how we have grown.

• [CH]

  So many fireworks… so many Darwin Award wannabees.

• [Slowermo]

  This made me think of a new phrase: “Beautiful Stupidity”. Then again, that combination has 8900 hits on Google.

• [apoxia]

  My uncle blew three fingers on his left hand off as a teenager while shaking his homemade bomb. If only we had that on film!

  • [Dan Hibiki]

     the prosecution would have definitely appreciated that.

• [danimagoo]

  Ok most of these are horrifying. The one with the dachshund, however was AWESOME.

• [joeposts]

  This video is terrible. Firework “accidents” are only funny if you’re actually there watching your drunk friend char his choda. Without the smell of burned curlies it’s just SICK.

• [Shaggy]

  I understand there are a lot of wet blanket types on here; but I for one always find humor when idiocy, alcohol, and fireworks mix. Those with sticks up their rears can always take solace that this video offers cautionary education for mouth breathers that may otherwise be injured.

  • [teapot]

    I understand there are a lot of wet blanket types on here

    Thankyou, sir. I shall be linking this comment on BB often.

  • [3eff_jeff]

    In this video, those with sticks up their rears got burned.

• [Kibo]

  That video was awesome! I’m going to try everything I saw in it at home!

• [Red Pill Junkie]

  “Bah! screw those Europeeners and their Higgs titties. Look what we here can do with them rockets!! “

• [Jake0748]

  Christ. What  a bunch of assholes.

• [Daemonworks]

  Embedded video’s controls don’t exist – including the oh-so-important volume control.

  • [teapot]

    Thats some weird markup you got there…. did you try.. you know.. MOUSEOVER? Even clicking the bit that says “video link” would’ve been easier than bitching about a bad embed (that actually works fine).

• [bcsizemo]

  Mortar shells are the fucking best….

• [CLamb]

  Oh, the humanity!
  Oh, the stupidity!
  Oh, look, pretty!

• [GTMoogle]

  Reminds me of the drunk idiot that couldn’t see which mortar shell he was trying to grab from the box so he TURNS ON THE LIGHTER AND STICKS IT IN THE BOX TO SEE BY.  All things considered, I’m glad I stopped him instead of taking video of the results.  >.<

• [OtherMichael]

  “motherf****n bootleg fireworks, sh*t!”

  yeah, baby!

• [diego cusano]

  I still can’t believe that fireworks are illegal in some places like in the U.S.
  They should ban stupid people instead.

• [Bruce Arthurs]

  Rather than Darwin Awards, it would be more appropriate to award the video’s participants Flying Fickle Fingers of Fate. 

• [Ant]

  I hope those guys never reproduce. ;)

• [BombBlastLightingWaltz]

  The absence of women doing stupid things with their asses and firecrackers shows which sex is less stupid.