Fireworks blowing peoples' hands off
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Prob a little of both + now they're legal in most states so more people are doing it.
When he was young, my father happened to be in the waiting room at the ER on the 4th of July. He couldn't believe how many guys were coming in after getting fingers or hands blown off.
I want to go on the record and say children blowing their hands off is sad. 16-17 year olds should know better, though.
are you truly American if you don’t risk serious injury to light off fireworks
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I blame the hands off approach to parenting
no 30-40 years ago we had m-80 and m-100 and m-500 and that crap was a quarter stick of dynamite and we are not JUST talking about a few fingers missing , back then. it's gotten wayyyyyy safer lately
Karma for the last month is bittersweet. **** people who light off fireworks. It’s a waste and stupid. Not even entertaining.
I see 6-7 patients a year after 4th of July. If you are going to light them use your non dominant hand.
One of the saddest parts of being a child was realizing that I had already moved on from being interested in fireworks but grown men were still amazed by them. That and knowing that WW3 was lurking around every corner.
One time when me and my brother were about 10, we were lighting off bottle rockets and our town cop saw us. My little brother ran for it and the cop drove up to him and said "What's the rush, your mom make some pie?"
You answered your question in your first sentence. Now we can simply Google pics of this. 30 -40 years ago you couldn't. So my answer is neither. You just have better access to pics/videos of injuries.
Everyone is carrying a video camera now, so more pictures of everything that always happened.
In my experience, the children are the ones with enough sense to be cautious around fireworks. It's usually their fathers and uncles who lose fingers.
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