Don't it Yourself: Homemade fireworks

Did you all enjoy your Independence Day? I hope that you were able to celebrate with a safe fireworks display, either an organized event in your town, some (legal!) fireworks in your own backyard, or even a national event on your big-screen TV.

What I hope you didn't do was to try and DIY your own fireworks display -- not safe! In fact, one young man was so, shall we say, questionably innovative, as to try to become his own fireworks display.

Yes, I'm serious. After the break, I'll tell you exactly what he did.


The Darwin Awards didn't miss out on this one, awarding an honorable mention to this young man's near miss. Basically, he donned an old football helmet, taped a firework to it (a don't-it-yourself within a don't-it-yourself -- an example of how not to use duct tape), and set it off.

The proximity of the fireworks inhibited viewers from actually seeing what happened to this young man, but he suffered a concussion and burns from his attempt at spicing up the fireworks display that year.

Learn from this man's mistake, and don't become your own fireworks!

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