Fireworks and alcohol are a blast, apparently.
2 dead and a historic church gone up in flames in Amsterdam…
40 dead and 110+ injured in Switzerland.
Local media reports earlier on Thursday suggested pyrotechnics could have caused the incident (BBC)
Natural selection at this point.
There’s a video of kids just whipping out their phones to record the fire instead of getting tf out
Jesus christ, just put the shit on the ground and get away.
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.
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.
People who can’t afford the medical bills are better about avoiding accidents. Upper class types usually don’t get the memo until they’ve had to deal with an injury in their own circle.
We did this as kids and one blew up while my brother was holding it, about an inch above his closed hand. So close to looking like one of these radiographs… Don’t hold fireworks kids.
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 are 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%”)
Yeah, thanks for noticing my typo.
#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
1 and 3 do look fixable if they can reconnect enough blood vessels fast enough before the tissue dies, depends on how fast they got to the hospital
Yargh, why be pirates angry all the time? It be havin’ to wipe with yar hook hand that does it.
Makes me think of this iconic 1996 Dutch tv-‘commercial’ warning people of the dangers of firework. Very fine marketing, bit less desturbing:
Thanks for the nightmares lol
just a shame nobody paid attention to it
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!
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
Chances of >2 are null.
Well theoretically no there is a condition called Polymelia where you can have more than 4 limbs. in reality it will be <2 and >1.8
Except spiders, squids and octopus I suppose.
Ouch!
My first and only though!
I remember that as a kid in China, my uncle would give me a stick of incense to ignite fireworks with to put some distance between my short ass 6 year old arms. And also, with the exception of the roman candles, they had to be placed on the ground and I wasn’t allowed to hold them.
Round of applause for the heroes!
I would expect 8 of those 9 to be straight-up nubbed. Not worth the effort.
It’s pretty amazing what doctors can do.
I hope one of these is my neighbor who was illegally setting off fireworks for 3 hours after the new year started.
