NY man blows off arm with fireworks (Amputate Your Arm)
 

NY man blows off arm with fireworks - Jul 2010

New York (CNN) -- On Saturday, a man lighting fireworks outside his Long Island home became the latest victim when he completely severed his left arm from his shoulder, Suffolk County police said.

Eric Smith, 36, was using a three-foot-long metal tube to shoot mortars near his Islip Terrace home on Saturday evening. One of the explosives shot out and struck him in the left arm, taking it off, said police.

Smith's friends wrapped the arm in ice and took him to the emergency room at Southside Hospital, and he was transferred to the intensive care unit of Nassau County Medical Center, where he is listed in critical, but stable condition, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

While she wouldn't comment on the status of Smith's arm, spokeswoman Shelley Lotenburg said the hospital does not perform limb reattachments.

Smith was illegally using a commercial fireworks device -- which explodes at a much greater force than a firecracker, said Suffolk County Police Lt. Mathew Sullivan.

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:2 cents: Play with your explosives safely kids. :rasta

Damn that must have been some canon

commercial firework device, I bet he was letting off the big professional fireworks which are much bigger than your 1.4G fireworks a consumer can buy, I don't see a normal consumer mortar shell taking off a arm, maybe blowing a chunk of skin out but a arm no, commercial fireworks on the other hand those are just giant bombs.

Pfft it was only his left arm he can grow a new one.

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It's just a flesh wound....

Hope he uses his right hand for wanking.

As it was an illegal commercial firework is he now going to end up in court being fined for it too?

Can't exactly give him a community service punishment as pushing a broom is going to be a bit difficult now.

this thread was not what i'd expect of you amp

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh man a steel tube wtf :helpme i bet that shit ruin his hi :1orglaugh

Fucking tubes again ...they fuck everything up

Damn,reminds me back in the day when we made pipe bombs and a friend blew off 3 fingers making one

I have guys I went to school with, identical twins, one blew off his fingers making bombs out of cos cartridges and black powder... Best thing was we could all finally tell them apart.

"Nassau County Medical Center" you dont want to be sent there!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't understand. It's an appropriately timed real-life shock story about the hazards of playing with explosives on the biggest "play with explosives!" day there is all year. What were you expecting? :)
Notice how I added the witty word play combining my nick with the article highlight in the title.

[QUOTE=halfpint;17307396]Fucking tubes again ...they fuck everything up[/QUOTE

Ha ha that was funny :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

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Sad story but your comment made me LOLz

First the tubes ruin your business, then they take your arm.

fatfoorific

So, if they had taken him to a different hospital, they might have tried to reattach the limb??? I think I'd want to know which hospitals try and which ones don't!

I actually laughed, how morbid.

yeah the one with the missing fingers is the dumb ass :1orglaugh

buddy of me blew off 4 fingers of his left hand when he was 18yo ... and the garage of his parents was blown to bits ... he was in shock and when the police showed up and an officer told him to "stand still to be searched and write down his ID" - he smashed his right fist into the cops face with such fierce, he broke three of his fingers and the officers nose and cheek bone ... the fingers were lost and never found ... and the charge for "attacking a police officer" was dropped because the judge blamed it on my buddies state of shock and inappropiate behav of the officer in that case ... dont play with fireworks, kids