Baytown Man Killed in Flare Gun Accident

[03Lightningrocks]

Yep... we should immediately outlaw all flare guns.

[VoiceofReason]

When I was 11 or 12 I blew up our garage. I don’t want to talk about it. To this day my mother and sisters won’t let me live it down.

[jmra]

When I was 11 or 12 I blew up our garage. I don’t want to talk about it. To this day my mother and sisters won’t let me live it down.

When I was 7 I burned 50 acres. Thought I did anyway. Turns out after the fire department came out to address my fire they decided it was as good a time as any to get rid of a bunch of brush that was a fire hazard during drier seasons. Was so relived when my Dad told me all the smoke we could see from our house was not the wildfire I thought it was.

[VoiceofReason]

When I go to visit them I know it is going to happen. It’s just a matter of when. One of them will say “Hey do you remember the time”. How could I forget. I am now 67.

[esxmarkc]

But some stupid with a flare gun. Burned the place to the ground...

[jmra]

When I go to visit them I know it is going to happen. It’s just a matter of when. One of them will say “Hey do you remember the time”. How could I forget. I am now 67.

Wouldn't this smilie be more appropriate?

[VoiceofReason]

When I go to visit them I know it is going to happen. It’s just a matter of when. One of them will say “Hey do you remember the time”. How could I forget. I am now 67.

Wouldn't this smilie be more appropriate?

Yes it would.Thanks.

[Texsquatch]

Yep... we should immediately outlaw all flare guns.

Just imagine if that flare gun had one of them evil 30 round mags. It would be blood flowing in the streets I tell ya!

[JALLEN]

What work could you do on a flare gun. Maybe taking apart a flare to see what make it tick.

Investigators believe Cook was building a larger explosive device from fireworks and using a 37mm launcher when things went wrong. They believe he was attempting to fire it in the backyard of his home when it exploded in his hands.

You can't fix stupid

Well, I don't know. My friend, Captain Hook, by his example "fixed" a great many stupid folks in our crowd when a slight informality mixing a batch of new and improved firework material cost him a garage, a hand, an eye, a good part of his intestines and a significant diminution in his hearing. Whether it actually fixed it, or merely took what they are pleased to call their minds off of it for the time being I can't say. Only time will tell, I suppose.