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U.S. Man Shoots off Firework From Top of His Head, Dies
A young man who was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, fatally injuring himself, U.S. authorities say.
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Darwin Awardee right there.
I should look into the percentage of Darwin Award recipients that are from the U.S. So far this week I've seen this article and the guy in Texas that said "Fuck alligators!" and jumped to his death.
My country, Brazil, has the only winner of TWO Darwins. That priest who tried to set the record for flying on a balloon chair. He already had the collective Darwin given to all Catholic priesthood (the organizers consider that a vow of celibacy for religious reasons to be worthy of an award), AND he won and individual award when he died on that stupid balloon chair.
He became synonymous of technological illiteracy here, because hes incapable of reading and understanding the damn GPS unit he had with him.
'Murica!
Seriously though, why didn't someone say "Hey this is a terrible idea?" and stop him?
When Alcohol is involved, no idea is terrible.
"Hold my beer."
One of the links says that his friends tried to dissuade him, but he did it anyway.
His brother thinks he was joking about doing it, but then moved his head the wrong direction and accidentally lit it.
Should have worn a helmet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hbFvb1hyqI
For a minute there I thought this was the actual video from the article and was wondering why his friends weren't more concerned with what he was about to do.
A creative way to die.
July 4, the perfect day for getting rid of drunk idiots
Bright guy.
So sad- why would you do that?
I was so relieved when I saw this happened in Maine instead of Florida. Welp...he was vacationing in Maine from...Orlando.
I've tried looking at a few sources, but not finding many details. Does anyone know if the death was due to the concussive force of the mortar shell going off and an instant barotrauma resulting? I'm assuming it's better than a melted head, but I guess the means to the end don't matter much if it the end was indeed "instant."
One of the links above has his brother saying that there was no helping him, so I would assume it was not just the concussive force.
Yikes. I missed that critical sentence.