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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/6/2015 1:44 PM, Bill Sapsis via
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We’ve all done something foolish in our lives and gotten away with
it (i.e.: didn’t die) He wasn’t that lucky.
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<div class="">This isn’t stagecraft related. Maybe I’m old
fashioned but speaking ill of the dead and speculating on the
circumstances and aftermath feels ghoulish. I suggest we leave
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<div class="">On Jul 6, 2015, at 1:33 PM, Jason C via
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Wonder if there was enough of this
fool left to test his blood alcohol level... I have my
suspicions...
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:29 PM,
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<div class="">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. </div>
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<div class="">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. </div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
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