A family get-together was going on at the home with a number of people attending.The story called to mind a scene from one of my all time favorites. A little background... she is pregnant and was told by her doctor, in an earlier scene, not to smoke.
Police said Kathryn Flint, 49, went inside the home to ready multiple large fireworks, or mortars, that had previously been placed on top of a bed in a bedroom, and was going to take them outside to set them off.
At about 8:40 p.m., while she was inside the bedroom with two dogs also present, there was an apparent accidental ignition of at least one mortar, police said.
When the mortar exploded, it set off others inside the bedroom, resulting in the ignition of multiple other mortars. (read more)
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shelleyn411 • 17 minutes ago
Who stores fireworks in a bedroom? I now see why most states ban the personal sale/use of these things since you would have to administer an IQ test first.
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Accidental ignition?
That's why I turned on the mystery tag.
I can't tell you the number of times I've witnessed people smoking cigarettes while filling their cars with gas.
Why why why?
There must some sort of a logical explanation... turn on your CSI shoes... or put on your CSI hats.
Because Florida woman.
Sounds like a pretty horrible way to go.
I hate explosions and have hated them ever since I was a little kid.
Why some people love explosions is to me a complete mystery.
She probably stored them in her bedroom because everything was dry there.
Has anyone ruled out alcohol involvement?
The fireworks thing may have been a July 4th tradition between mother and son. If so, it's indeed sad. It used to be a more father-son tradition -- my dad bought fireworks on a family road trip, passing through TN in 1968. Later on, he let us buy them (with our own money) on subsequent trips. You couldn't get fireworks in WI in the 1970s.
I remember on trip in 1972 or 73, when I bought a big box of assorted fireworks. I stored them under my bed.
There were some fireworks in my bedroom last night!
You should have been there!
LOL Sixty
Florida Woman. There is a whole meme about Florida Man based on all the stupid shit that people in Florida seem to do. The newspaper stories all start with "Florida man" and then continue with the rest of the mind boggling stories.
Florida Man the worlds worst superhero
I will put on my NCIS hat, thank you very much :) Gibbs and I have a thing going on.
Yes, alcohol. She was a little or a lot hammered, went in unthinkingly with a lit cigarette.
The word mortar should say it all.
Anybody who knows what a mortar is supposed to do ought to approach them with extreme caution.
Obviously not fit for freedom.
There were some fireworks in my bedroom last night!
Lemme guess. An electric guitar, a chainsaw, and a man in a gimp-monkey suit w/mask?
I think a famous model once described the possible dangers in that as a "freak gasoline fight accident", Allen.
Lemme guess. An electric guitar, a chainsaw, and a man in a gimp-monkey suit w/mask?
Hey! I'm Catholic.
Nobody knows how to sin like a Catholic.
Can't argue with that.
But surely there's a way to play "innocently" in such a scenario. ;-)
Although that might take all the fun away...
It's all fun and games until a bedroom fire incident breaks out.
Would it be ironic if the mother thought a bedroom was the safest room in the house.
Maybe she thought they needed to be kept in a safe place... and she thought the safest place would be her bedroom.
I don't know.
Ah, I see that R&B is tacking to the westward blowing sullivanistic wind, the subtle waft that says fireworks are too dangerous, an environmental waste, and just plain stupid.*
I will tell you that as a teenage boy, the more fireworks were forbidden, the more I craved them.
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*Missing link to a Sullivan post linking a video which implied as much.
Oh for Chrissakes, Chick.
Remove that goddamn Andrew Sullivan-mobile dangling from the pole affixed to your helmet right now!
Seriously. It's a health hazard.
No politics today, anyway. I decree it.
Health hazard. And that's the way we like it.
Death to the nanny state! Long live the Darwin awards.
Shouting Thomas said...
There were some fireworks in my bedroom last night!
Who was in my room last night?
She went out in a blaze of glory.
At least she died doing what she loved.
OT: Excellent George Will Op-Ed
The Supreme Court reins in government bullies
I've stored fireworks in my bedroom. Not very large ones, but some. But then, I don't have dogs that are ignition sources, and I don't live in Florida. I'm also not a smoker.
Yesterday morning and this morning I have gone in to our yard and picked up all the detritus from the "celebration" with explosives. Our neighbors are lucky it is not still 1967, when I could buy a M224 60 mm mortar and the rounds to go with it. !968 ended all that fun and games, we even had to register the 20mm Lahti (Finish) WWII antitank rifle. Dang!
It would be such fun to lob a couple 60 mm frags at the knuckle head whose sky rockets in cardboard "mortar" tubes that tipped over in the street and ricocheted between several houses...including mine.
60 mm fragmentation versions would be appropriate in the hope of reducing the gene pool by several assholes. Nah, cannot do that, so I'm left with weaving a nice network of legal "quarter sticks" (like giant M-80's....blow a two foot wide hole in your grass) along the sidewalks and driveways of the morons who harassed the rest of us this year...so next year it will require only a control panel to get those fuckers dancing like disco was back. Yeah. I'd like that.
I am not unpleasant, I just enjoy revenge.
Welcome to The United States of Pyromania.
Oh, Rit, get over yourself.
I read a book in my teens about a boy playing with fireworks who was blinded and ended up in a school for the blind. Rather depressing, written on the teen level.
Its looks like Florida has taken over the role the California used to have; the land of the kooks and Nuts.
I can remember macho - aka extremely stupid - Teens letting firecrackers go off in their closed hands - just to prove how tough they were. Never heard of anyone doing it TWICE.
Maybe fireworks need an age AND IQ requirement.
How do you accidentally ignite mortars? I use Excaliburs, and they are really well made. You simply could not accidentally ignite them.
She must have had them out of the packaging and been smoking or something. It makes no sense.
Florida.
One person in 400 million lights her bedroom on fire- and we need more laws. Behold - the mind of a progressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5braVaanAMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XchwE9zVdnw
She was probably drunk and lit up like a roman candle.
(forgive me Lord I know I'm going straight to hell for that one)
The thing about life is that we so often get what we don't deserve.
The notion that life ought to be fair is a relic of being 10 years or under with Mom as the enforcer of fate, equal shares, mess mitigation, and consequences.
Who was in my room last night?
Is there any situation for which there isn't a Butthole Surfers song?
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