[SML] darwin award winner

[Jason C]

Wonder if there was enough of this fool left to test his blood alcohol
level... I have my suspicions...

*facepalm*

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Dale Farmer via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> If the thing was pointing straight up and the lift charge fired.  then c
> spine injury leading to total paralysis and death.  If he had suffered the
> injury while standing in the trauma room of a major hospital, and had a
> room full of medical staff ready to go, might have been survivable, but
> would have a respirator breathing for them for the rest of their life.
>
> Sketchy news media reports say it exploded on his head, and that he
> thought it was a dud.  So an alternate scenario is that the lift charge was
> a dud or a fizzle, and the shell then exploded in the tube while he was
> holding it on his head.  Which would add blast trauma and cardboard
> shrapnel, and burning Pyro stars Imbedded into his body.  Also not a
> survivable event.
>
> --Dale
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> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: "Riter, Andrew via Stagecraft" <stagecraft at theatrical.net>
> Date: 07/06/2015 11:41 (GMT-05:00)
> To: 'Stagecraft Mailing List' <stagecraft at theatrical.net>
> Cc: "Riter, Andrew" <andrew.riter at ubc.ca>
> Subject: [SML] darwin award winner
>
>  If you want further details, check the news cycle:
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> A man in Maine (?) died after placing a Fireworks mortar on his head.  I’m
> assuming it was open side up, so I am curious as to the cause of death.
> Concussive force straight down onto his skull?
>
>
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