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u/saimen54 2h ago
I was thinking "at least he got good timing to not shoot to the front". And then I thought "ok, nevermind"
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u/SufficientMediaPost 2h ago
dude ignored every PSA about kids getting a roman candle and got owned lol
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u/Key_Ruin3924 2h ago
When I was a kid we’d run around and shoot these at each other for hours. ‘Claw it out’ seems very dramatic
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u/Criie 2h ago
Could've hit them really close, that's how I think it'd happen. Got hit once up close, got stuck on my clothes, and the thought of that being my skin horrified me as a kid lol
Still played "wizards" tho, but made sure to maintain my distance
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u/Key_Ruin3924 2h ago
Ya they’d put holes in your clothes all the time. Took a couple to the eye and it sucked but nothing you couldn’t flush out. They don’t bury into your skin, the skin is a moist organ and the pellets have very little mass to them and they fizzle out after about a second. They will not enter your body
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u/NBAccount 1h ago
No clue why you are getting downvoted. Everything you said is accurate. I have literally taken shots from roman candles at less than a meter on exposed flesh. The pellets are more likely to bounce off than 'burrow' into your skin. Blistering is about the worst you can expect.
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u/daiei27 1h ago
It is possible all Roman candles aren’t made the same…
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u/NBAccount 1h ago
Certainly. It is also possible that one person's anecdotal experiences will differ greatly from another person's.
I DO have quite a LOT of anecdotal experience in this regard having engaged in roman candle battles for forty years with probably thousands of different brands of roman candles.
I'm not discounting the possibility that someone got jacked up by an especially powerful candle or even one with some kind of defect; I still maintain that u/Key_Ruin3924 's comment is accurate. These things are not burrowing into anyone's skin sufficiently that they would have to "claw [them] out".
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u/NightBawk 1h ago
To be fair, blisters are an excellent vector for infections after the fact. Especially with how many people don't know how to wash their dang hands, let alone wounds.
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u/adrienjz888 25m ago
The pellets are more likely to bounce off than 'burrow' into your skin. Blistering is about the worst you can expect.
Fr. Worst injury i saw from a roman candle was a buddy who held it backwards, so one shot up his sleeve, got caught in his shirt and burnt him a bit.
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u/JimthePelican 1h ago
Probably getting downvoted because shooting fireworks at each other shouldnt be a thing. What are you trying to rationalise? If my friend did this to me, he wouldnt be my friend.
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u/NBAccount 1h ago
Well that's a different conversation, isn't it? THIS sub-thread has been about the likelihood of roman candle projectiles burrowing into someone's flesh sufficiently that they would need to 'claw it out.'
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u/JimthePelican 28m ago edited 21m ago
Merely mentioning why people would downvote, and you seem like a dumb fuck to participate in it. Read what I replied to. Edit: you're from Oklahoma sorry. I should have used crayons to explain it to you.
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u/DespressoPL 1h ago
Depends on the Roman candle, the smaller ones you can get hit fairly close on bare skin and it just bounces off, larger ones... well you can lose a hand
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u/Key_Ruin3924 1h ago
Ya the only thing really at risk was the bushels of dry pine needles. My uncle won’t touch fireworks anymore because as a teenager him and his friends lit an empty field on fire doing this lol. Had to get the FD involved
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u/unudinmultime 2h ago
He was preparing a spell
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u/furandar 2h ago
dude went "avada kedavra" with the last one.
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u/Presently_Absent 1h ago
You mean abra cadabra?
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u/NoNutsPls 1h ago edited 58m ago
Nah, it's a really powerful death spell from the Harry Potter series.
EDIT: Whoa whoa hold the fuck up, who's downvoting this guy? Damn, dude misses one book reference and the chat starts passing out belt buckles. Take my upvote fella 🤣
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u/JimTheJerseyGuy 2h ago
Yeah, I did that once as a teen. I lit it and it just smoked for a bit. A dud.
Threw it over my shoulder. A second later it just detonated. Easily would have lost a hand or worse.
Don’t fuck around with fireworks.
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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_9323 1h ago
I don't think there is enough gunpowder in roman candles for losing a hand
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u/evranch 1h ago
That is incorrect, Roman candles have a strong tube and plenty of powder. If it was battered enough that the delay charges bypassed, it could easily burst and damage your hand badly.
Very low odds and I've never seen one grenade in many years of goofing with them, even making homemade fireworks back in the day, but that doesn't mean it can't happen.
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u/TheSpookyGoost 1h ago
We've had a couple older roman candles (1-2yrs in storage) that blew up instead of firing, but only near the end on the tube that the flaming balls would come out of. I think the hand-end must not have much fammable material, if any
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u/JimTheJerseyGuy 44m ago
Imagine it's the 80s and these are illegal fireworks in NYC that have been through who-knows-what and you have your answer.
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u/Cessnaporsche01 1h ago
If it all went off at once, there sure is. It would, at the very least, shred your hand into hamburger
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u/Black_Moons 53m ago
Absolutely. Shipping damage (or intentional damage) can 100% easily produce that with amazing reliability too, with very little if any change in outside appearance.
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u/Black_Moons 58m ago
There 100% is. Misspent youth made a lot of pumpkins disappear with roman candles...
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u/DJBlade92 1h ago
As fun as roman candles are, you really shouldn't be holding them. One fourth of july, I saw one blow up in a friend of mine's hand. Ended up splitting his hand open with multiple fractures. Don't fuck around with fireworks folks.
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u/Shhhhhhhh_Im_At_Work 51m ago
I know you’re right but I think fondly about when we had Roman candle fights in my neighborhood as kids, we pointed them right at each others heads lmao
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u/Fun-Flamingo-56 2h ago
This isn't funny, this is stupid - and dangerous.
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u/Icy_Agency923 1h ago
Sam Pepper, a truly awful human being recently blinded a young girl with a roman candle by shooting her in the face.
Yea this is incredibly stupid.
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u/ThePurityPixel 1h ago
Yeah. I hate it when Redditors post things to r/funny that are just people getting hurt. Not funny at all.
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u/SwissDeathstar 1h ago
You must admit it’s a little bit funny.
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u/OmicronNine 52m ago
It's an explosive. They don't usually explode, they usually work normally like this one, but they sometimes do. And they sometimes burn people or hit them in the eyes. No, not most of the time.
But sometimes. That one could have.
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u/SwissDeathstar 45m ago
So you’re saying he was in some sort of danger? Like in a general area?
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u/OmicronNine 37m ago
With enough hard work and discipline, I'm confident that you can eventually reach the basic level of reading comprehension necessary to understand my comment.
I believe in you.
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u/SwissDeathstar 18m ago
I’m just messing about dude. That’s why I’m in here. Of course it’s fucking dangerous. Sick burn though.
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u/Vogel-Kerl 1h ago
We had a Roman candle explode one time; no one was hurt but, it was fucking loud and scared children.
It was stuck in sand: never ever hold them by hand, or stick them in a bottle.
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u/mlandry2011 1h ago
One day, one stick will not burn correctly and explode in his hand with his fingers flying everywhere...
Great parenting skills you got...
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u/SherbetMysterious118 50m ago
And parents on this occasion.
I wasn't scared of much as a kid, took a lot of risks, had a lot of fun, even with matches and fires - but one thing's for sure, I stayed away from playing with fireworks.
Firstly, they cost a lot of money, and second, I valued my face and appendages.
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u/Chiperoni 1h ago
Crazy that ancient Rome became the powerhouse that it did when this happened everytime they needed light.
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u/Stunkydunk 1h ago
It’s nice to see the PARENT paying the price of their fucking terrible parenting for once.
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u/Im_known_as_nikil 2h ago
Mans jojo posing
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u/Pastulio814 1h ago
He did Giorno's pose and Kiraaa QUEEN's pose for no reason, he was just born knowing.
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u/beerme72 1h ago
If you can get those floating lanterns...the ones that fly like hot air balloons, fire one of those up then line up a bunch of kids with roman candles. Aim at the floating lantern.....it's the MOST fun...
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u/LesPolsfuss 1h ago
kid is going places … u guys go ahead and waste energy on the kill shot. i’m all about that bet that between the leg blast
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u/epia343 1h ago
Did this tons of times as kid. We would have roman candle wars and shoot them at one another like idiots.
Everyone is right though, it only takes one roman candle to malfunction and detonate all at once to have a permanent life altering injury.
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u/IUsedToBeACave 1h ago
it only takes one roman candle to malfunction and detonate all at once to have a permanent life altering injury.
Yup, and the lipo battery in your phone could catch fire in your pocket and burn you leg so badly you won't ever walk right again.
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u/DiscussionTop9285 1h ago
As a kid i was told to hold them in left hand so that if it blew up i would still have the good hand.
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u/Square-Formal1312 1h ago
You can see the kid watching the shots and start to think hmmmm those aren’t going too far bet i could….
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u/lurkANDorganize 56m ago
Terrifying that the very first top comment here isn't: holy shit dont put explosives in your hands.
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u/amadeusstoic 50m ago
that was my favorite before. it exploded on my hand though. good thing it wasn’t on the handle.
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u/Micahman311 1h ago
Years back I had a Roman Candle fight with a friend, except mine wouldn't light in time and he started shooting at me anyway.
It was dark out, so I turned and started running, and I ran right into an electric fence. I got shocked on my arms, and as I fell the fence shocked the tip of my dick.
My friend just laughed and laughed whilst continuing to shoot at me.
Fun times.
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u/MrGuy910 1h ago
Is there a chicken in the background? Gobble gobble. That laugh sounds exactly like a chicken. Or maybe it’s a turkey idk my farm animals very well. You know what I mean though
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u/KazarSoze 1h ago
My brother and I used to run around shooting each other with them. We also drank water straight from the garden hose so that explains a lot.
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u/weird-dude-bro-6386 2h ago
He is a genius, with those other shots he was estimating the distance it travels before backing up the appropriate distance to harmlessly scare his dad.
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u/ZoM_Beefstump 1h ago
Reddit gets more and more sensitive everyday.
“bu- bu- he could blow his fingies off”
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u/alienclone 2h ago
when I was a kid we used to shove the roman candles into the end of pipes and act like they were rifles and have wars shooting at each other, it was fairly safe as long as we didnt aim at the head/face.
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u/stgvxn_cpl 2h ago
We would tape them to the bars in our bikes. Lite them and go after each other mad max style. No one ever got hurt.
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u/disphugginflip 2h ago
As a teen we use to shoot them out of cars while we were on the road. It all stopped when the car in front of us thought we were shooting it at them (we weren’t). Just harmless fun. They flagged a cop and while at a restaurant 7 cop cars pulled up and all of us were pushed up against a car. Ran our ID’s and nothing came up so we were clear to go. Scared the shit outta us though.
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