Fireworks & Fools

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MELBOURNE, Fla -- A 23-year-old man was killed and another injured when fireworks in the back seat of their car exploded and ignited the car, according to Local 6 News.

Police said Aravis Walker, 23, and Antonio Robinson, 27, were lighting fireworks and throwing them from their vehicle Mondaynight while driving in the area of
Carver Street in Melbourne, Fla.

At some point, an amber from a cigarette or one of the lit fireworks fell on the back seat of the car and ignited several other explosives.

Robinson was able to exit the vehicle after running into a light pole at Carver Street and Walker Street. However, Walker was not able to get of the car and sat in the car as it burned.

Both men were burned over 90 percent of their bodies and transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center.

"They actually had to hose him (Walker) down to treat him," Assistant Fire Chief Greg Anglin said.

Walker died at the hospital Tuesday morning.

Officers at the scene said the vehicle had fireworks still shooting from it when they arrived.

The Toyota car was completely destroyed.

Possible charges are pending the result of the investigation, according to police.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

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If you play with fire......

Yep.No big surprise..I'm sure this weekend is gonna bring alot of blown off fingers and worse

sad.
just sad.

so..they were throwing lit fireworks from the back of a car..while smoking..with a backseat full of more fireworks?

I'm guessing common sense wasn't their strong point. It's sad that it happened, but it could have easily been avoided had they not been behaving like idiots.

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Originally posted by Peter Peeker:
sad.
just sad.

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This is a perfect example of what I have dubbed the "Florida Story of the Week".....
These stories usually involve bizarre convoluted situations wherein people are injured and sometimes killed or something that just embodies the true spirit of Florida.....Sometimes they occur more often then once a week but generally a week doesn't go by without something bizarre occuring to someone in this state and then said occurence being reported in the paper..
And I hardly think this is sad...more like hilarious....and they should be up for a Darwin award..

TORT,

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I'm guessing common sense wasn't their strong point.

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...didn't you know? Common sense, isn't a very common thing, at all.

...Andyman, is living proof of that! [img]wink.gif[/img]

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Originally posted by Chairman Kaga:
This is a perfect example of what I have dubbed the "Florida Story of the Week".....
These stories usually involve bizarre convoluted situations wherein people are injured and sometimes killed or something that just embodies the true spirit of Florida.....Sometimes they occur more often then once a week but generally a week doesn't go by without something bizarre occuring to someone in this state and then said occurence being reported in the paper..
And I hardly think this is sad...more like hilarious....and they should be up for a Darwin award..

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Amen.

Do you remember the two friends who were messing around with a rifle a few years back?

They were taking turns shooting off the little button on the top of a baseball cap.

Needless to say, one friend's face was blown off.

If that wasn't Florida, it should've been. Lived in Miami my entire life, and I can honestly say that nothing shocks me anymore. My friends feel the same way.

I guess it is the Universe's way of ensuring the gene pool has enough clorine in it.

some people are so fucking stupid!

When I was young and stupid my brother and i made these bottle rocket bazookas. Basically they were PVC tubing with a funnel on the back end. Onw guy would aim it while the one in the back lit a bottle rocket and jammed it into the funnel (the funnel made it easier to get in). this was fun for our fireworks wars we use to have on in the fields of farmland.

The really stupid part is when we tried to go mobile and shoot bottle rockets from our car. We would light a rocket, jam it into the bazooka then point it out the window. Of course in a moving car the wind just blew the bottle rocket back into the car as the fuse was still burning! Fortunately we didn't have a back seat full of fireworks! (at least we were careful about keeping them seperated from the idiots with the lighters. [img]wink.gif[/img] )

MoaK!! NOOOOOO!