....run in the house.
Last night my friend nad a cook out at his house. He whipps out the roman candles. We were having fun smoking cigars and shooting off fireworks. Then my friend starts aiming the magnesium hot fire balls that shoot out of a roman candle at me. He thought it was funny to watch my fat arse jump around, and then...direct hit on the ankle. Burned through my sock and left a burn/blister the size of a silver dollar on my ankle. It hurt for a little bit, but surprisingly it doesn't hurt any more. I lost a layer of skin, and that was it, it scabbed over today and feels fine. So I was lucky. My friend got the pummling of a liftime and his wife was not a happy camper. So he got his. I'm framing the sock with a large black burn hole through it so he can hang it in his office. Oh well, we have something to laugh about for years to come. It was my 6 year wedding anniversary yesterday and my wife said I just have a scar to remind me of number six.....FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. I'm not mad I'm actually still kinda chuckling about it. So if someone thinks you would be great roman candle shooting practice. Run into the house and never go back out.

We use to have roman candle wars at the golf course. Those were fun.

Ahhh what fun it was to be 12 and stupid.

We used to play roman candle dodgeball in the parking lot down the street from my house.

Lots of fast pretty colors.

You don't run in the house, you hide behind his wife's car.


Sean

we had roman candle wars last night on the beach, awesome fun! but I am 22... not 12.. lol

quote Originally posted by CoryFiero: we had roman candle wars last night on the beach, awesome fun! but I am 22... not 12.. lol

Like my wife said 30 year old men acting like 12 year olds. It's my red bedge of courage.

quote Originally posted by cunninghamsean: You don't run in the house, you hide behind his wife's car. Sean

No you go behind your friends car.

Jim

I just have to ask, was your "friend" drinking?

You were extremely lucky. While flying Medivac, I once had the opportunity to see a 10 to 12 year old boy that had been shot in the chest by his best friend with a roman candle, he was really messed up. I really don't need friends like that. Hopefully the "friend" will realize what he almost did and not repeat the experience with anyone else.

Ron

......time to find a new friend...

This happens a hundred times a day, (not just the 4th) its really not that big of a deal.

get the bottle rockets and fire back

quote Originally posted by 4-mulaGT: This happens a hundred times a day, (not just the 4th) its really not that big of a deal.

Oh yeah? Get one in the eye and tell us about it.

I got one in the arm (my own fault, I put it in the ground upside down), and it didn't even go through the fabric of my t-shirt. This was a few years ago on Canada Day.

quote Originally posted by Patrick: Oh yeah? Get one in the eye and tell us about it.

It's all fun and games until somebody gets shot in the face with fire.

quote Originally posted by Patrick: Oh yeah? Get one in the eye and tell us about it.

Oh yeah? Get a hit by a rock going 75 mph on the highway with your window down, or by a piece of burning wood or smoldering rock from a stone exploding on a campfire and tell us about it.

'bout as likely to happen.

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My twin brother asked me this last weekend:
"You remember that New Years when you shot me in the chest with a Roman Candle and ruined my week old jacket?"
Me:
"Nope, but I remember when you shot me in the eye with a ball bearing from a slingshot while we were waiting for the schoolbus"

/\ All true /\

when i was 12-13 my neighbor pulled did the same thing to me, except he hit me right behind the ear. burnt some hair and my ear lobe. lucky for me it didn't "report" right in my ear, but after it had hit the ground.

I think the worst part was when it hit, and stuck there until I kicked it off. It only hurts in the shower when the hot water hits it. Yes I was damn lucky it wasn't higher or I was wearing polyester socks. That would have sucked. I have had worse.
I once had a 5 foot tall PVC preasure pot with 50 PSI in it blow up in my face. I use pressure pots at work for casting plastic parts. This particular one was specially made fo rthis project. I was makng fiber optic cable routers. Basically a urathane insulation cast around a prestretched steel cable, with spiral grooves around the outside to hold fiber optics cables. These were going on the space station. I believe they are up there right now. Anyway I pumped the urethane, and placed the mold in the pot. Latched down the lid preasurized it and as I turned away, BOOM! The lid shot through the roof, literally, I had some debris in my eye, and couldn't hear real well from one ear. Needless to say my hearing returned after a day, and all specially made pressure vessles were scrapped. We found the pressure guage and tested it (it was embedded in the drywall). It was faulty, the pressure pot was only suppossed to get 25 PSI, turns out I had put in 50 due to the faulty guage. I'm still nervous around pressure pots to this day.

You definitely got lucky on that one.

Here's a pic I'll share that I took at my friends house on the fourth, it was called a flying pyramid, I did a few time exposures that night and this was the best one.

Happy Birthday America

Steve

quote Originally posted by fierohoho: You definitely got lucky on that one. Here's a pic I'll share that I took at my friends house on the fourth, it was called a flying pyramid, I did a few time exposures that night and this was the best one. Happy Birthday America Steve

Oh my God! A worm hole opened up in your back yard. Did you go through it?

Jim

You would think a ball (in this case a flaming ball of colorful fire) would bounce off if it hit you. NOPE, not in this case. If you get hit by a roman candle, the fireball sticks to you and burns you all up. Not fun.

-JOE

quote Originally posted by 4-mulaGT: Oh yeah? Get a hit by a rock going 75 mph on the highway with your window down, or by a piece of burning wood or smoldering rock from a stone exploding on a campfire and tell us about it. 'bout as likely to happen.

You're comparing those rarely occurring, impossible to predict events with some retard purposely firing a roman candle at other people?

Perhaps when you're older you'll make different connections.

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Shot back with a Glock 9mm and see if he laughs his ass off then.

quote Originally posted by Toddster: Shot back with a Glock 9mm and see if he laughs his ass off then.

Hmmmmm.....somehow I don't think he would be laughing.

quote Originally posted by joesfiero: You would think a ball (in this case a flaming ball of colorful fire) would bounce off if it hit you. NOPE, not in this case. If you get hit by a roman candle, the fireball sticks to you and burns you all up. Not fun. -JOE

I seem to remember they were originally called "Napalm Candles" but marketing decided that wasn't friendly enough.

My buddy had a Whistling Pete that was sticking out of his back pocket lit off by a prankster. Bad bad burn. I hate to say it but we were howling at him jumping up and down swatting at his ass as both he and the firework shrieked through the parking lot of the safe and sane firework stand. I think we must have been 13 or 14 at the time.
It was not funny at all when we found out how bad he was burned. Of course his name had to be Jack.

Not cool when you don't know your playing the game. Glad you came out of it with only a minor injury.

quote Originally posted by joesfiero: You would think a ball (in this case a flaming ball of colorful fire) would bounce off if it hit you. NOPE, not in this case. If you get hit by a roman candle, the fireball sticks to you and burns you all up. Not fun. -JOE

"Cuz napalm sticks to kids." - from "An Officer and a Gentleman"

Man it stings today. I think the pain finally caught up with me. Hopefully that means it is healing.

quote Originally posted by Curlrup: Man it stings today. I think the pain finally caught up with me. Hopefully that means it is healing.

I'm thinking it may not be quite as funny now. I don't mean that as a flame, no pun intended. But, when it didn't hurt much, it was no big deal, when the pain kicks in, all of a sudden, it's much more serious. Hope it heals and doesn't scar. I'd make sure that my friend knew how much it hurts. We all do stupid things from time to time but, do we learn from it. That is the question.

Ron

quote Originally posted by blackrams: I'm thinking it may not be quite as funny now. I don't mean that as a flame, no pun intended. But, when it didn't hurt much, it was no big deal, when the pain kicks in, all of a sudden, it's much more serious. Hope it heals and doesn't scar. I'd make sure that my friend knew how much it hurts. We all do stupid things from time to time but, do we learn from it. That is the question. Ron

Oh he is catching hell at work today. The funny thing is my friend is the Vice President of R&D here. I'm his subordinate, so he is catching all sorts of greif like, "Way to disfigure the employees, Dan."

quote Originally posted by Curlrup: My friend got the pummling of a liftime and his wife was not a happy camper.

quote Originally posted by Curlrup: The funny thing is my friend is the Vice President of R&D here. I'm his subordinate...

So I'm curious, what is your definition of a "pummling of a liftime"?

I'm curious because I would imagine an actual "pummling" would end a friendship, and in your case, possibly your employment.

lucky ha hadn't been working on his aim, could have been chestnuts roasting on a....

He got a punch or two to the gut. So I guess not a pummling, but a punch or two. Nothing bad. I do enjoy being employed.