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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/moving-jeep-explodes-in-eastern-washington-city/2014/01/25/92e1d704-85ef-11e3-aff8-191f8d178325_story.htmlDriver loses hand in Jeep explosion in Spokane
By Associated Press, Published: January 25
SEATTLE An explosion from a firecracker inside a moving Jeep blew off the drivers hand early Saturday and scattered debris over half a block in Spokane, prompting initial fears over the mans intent, police and neighbors said.
Witnesses saw a flash of light from inside the vehicle, a red Jeep with a gray top, as it drove down a residential street, police said.
Donald Wilkes, 61, said the blast rattled his house and woke up everyone inside. He initially thought someone had crashed into his parked truck, and when he ran outside, he found the street filled with smoke and the Jeep stopped just against his 6-foot-tall cedar fence.
I looked around for something that got hit, but there was nothing, Wilkes said. My son reached in to pull the keys out of the ignition and make sure he didnt go anywhere, and thats when we saw his hand was missing. It blew it right off at his wrist they found part of it half a block away.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)M-1000 sounds more like a miniature stick of dynamite.
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)We had similar 'fireworks' growing up in SC where they sell everything. We wanted to be far away when they exploded. We might have been crazy but we weren't stupid.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)it was a big one.
hlthe2b
(101,730 posts)automobile and EVERYTHING to do with the firecracker.
Shame on WAPO... they ought to get sued over that.
librechik
(30,663 posts)malaise
(267,846 posts)Dash87
(3,220 posts)Everything about this - why?
jsr
(7,712 posts)Inquiring minds wanna know.
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)I realize a lot of people in Washington State still think this is 2013, but celebrating New Year's Eve on the 25th of January is ridiculous.
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)There is a fairly good-size reservation just a few miles from where I sit. The sale of fireworks in late June and late December are one of the tribe's primary sources of income, along with their casino, tribal convenience stores and wheat fields. They sell all the highest-powered fireworks, shit you're NOT supposed to take off the Rez - but people do it all the time.
They have firecrackers suitable for blasting stumps.