Fireworks and alcohol are a blast, apparently.
When I was a kid, my (pot-dealing, irresponsible as hell) grandmother would take me fishing early in the AM. Before the sun would come up, sometimes we’d set off roman candles in a line. She insisted that I be several yards away, the roman candle be properly set up on level surfaces, everything by the book.
My ‘responsible,’ upper class inlaws have a 4th of July party where all the kids and grandkids are given roman candles to hold in their hands, with the instructions “try to point them away from people.” Of course they hold them in their dominant hands, too. Sigh.
I’m always treated like a loser nerd for stopping some drunk dad from throwing a box of leftover fireworks on the bonfire or something, because it’s not like anything would happen. We’ve done this a dozen times!
But, survivorship bias aside, injuries are very common! And severe!
I saw similar images from guys trying to punch a hole in the wall in Germany like in the US houses.
That’s nuclear grade stupidity.
Literally the first rule of handling firecrackers is to not lit them in the hand until you 101% sure that you will have enough time to throw it away. And still it mostly applies to small ones.
So better to light them on the ground and quickly move you hand away, since even 4 inches of distance is much better than having point blank explosion right near your hand in case of firecracker malfunctioning.
light* you’re* (for “you 101%”)
Damn. I didn’t know there could be gore without flesh nor blood.
These aren’t actually x-rays. They’re extremely efficient degloving incidents.
#6-8 look to still have their thumbs, they should be able to retain some function.
The rest look like they all get pirate hooks for their stumps
Yargh, why be pirates angry all the time? It be havin’ to wipe with yar hook hand that does it.
Round of applause for the heroes!
Makes me think of this iconic 1996 Dutch tv-‘commercial’ warning people of the dangers of firework. Very fine marketing, bit less desturbing:
just a shame nobody paid attention to it
Because of birth defects and stuff like this, given that we’re all suppose to have two hands, I wonder what the actual ratio of hands to people is.
It must be far less than 2.
“far” less, like 1.999 or something.
A better question would be ratio of fingers to persons, because lost fingers ≠ lost hand, and the ratio would be more sensitive to changes
Ouch!
My first and only though!
Hey, are these on bandcamp?
Definitely not on handcamp
I would expect 8 of those 9 to be straight-up nubbed. Not worth the effort.
It’s pretty amazing what doctors can do.
What is the source of these images?
The x-ray dept 🤢
Repost of reposts. I’ve seen it a few times in the bottom of the barrel of the internet. Tineye shows pages of reposts, found this though but it looks like they got it from a Facebook repost lmao.
I hope one of these is my neighbor who was illegally setting off fireworks for 3 hours after the new year started.
