Homemade fireworks are dangerous

This town is just minutes away from me, just saw this story on the news:

http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=46&id=31308
http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail2817.cfm?Id=22,32455

the blast, which blew the windows out of the home and sent shrapnel through the living room walls

mixing it in a metal can, like a peanut can, and then used a metal spoon to stir it.

mixing together gun powder, sulfur chlorate and phosphorous

wow. This guy is dumb! Though i'll admit ive been dumb before too. A few yrs ago i mixed some harmless kid-safe fireworks in my kitchen. Well i mixed a whole lot of it...turns out it was senstive to touch...... so as i mixed them together it decided to go off. Nice big blue flame which burned my face.....felt like bad sunburn...my ears were ringing for a while and it sent the **** flying all over the room. not fun lol. But im alive and still have all my limbs.....so its all good lol.

We used to make home made explosives out of black tape and sparklers. Some little kid at the res told me how to do it.

man, that's one stupid fella.

Reminds me of the time a kid at school blew one of his hands off right outside my classroom.

Are you serious? What happened?

yes, i am serious. Around 2 years ago this kid brought a homemade firework/bomb to school (it was pretty much gunpowder packed into a old bullet shell thing with a fuse sticking out)

He was pretending to light it with his lighter and then, oops. he did. The fuse was about 1inch so he had no time to get rid of it before it blew, and off came his left hand.

This all took place in the school gym/basketball court thing and I was in the classroom right by it when we all heard this bang, we left the class and saw the poor guy walking down the stairs clutching at pieces of flesh that were where his hand should have been all covered in blood.

So yeah, not a very nice experience at all. the guy was expelled btw

You'd think the administration would have been a little more compassionate and perhaps given him a hand... with dealing with his loss.

Dang, half-dollar width and 3in long ... my anarchist's cookbook directs me to mix this in a 5 gallon bucket.

I work with a guy who went to school there. Apparently Byron Kaiser is 700 lbs. This is no joke. And he was making a pipe bomb, not making fireworks. He was tearing apart fireworks to get the powder, but he was making a pipe bomb.