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The Dangers of Fireworks cannot be overstated. I want to cover this topic for quite some time as I have seen quite a few injuries in the hospital setting of people who were mishandling fireworks. Great job guys.
can't wait to see you explain all the details of these various "injuries" i love learning all the weird and wacky names for all kinds of bones and ligaments
@@Samonie67 in the mean time, allow me to be of assistance; "that's the finger bone. I think it goes inside instead of outside". This is why we need this collab. ;)
My grandfather, before I was born, looked down the barrel of a mortar firework he thought failed to fire. It fired when he was looking down it. Lost his left eye and broke, y'know, most of the left side of his face. Doctors were surprised he wasn't dead. They put his skull and face together using, from what I understand, plastics and by they time they released him the only real noticeable damage was the missing eye. He lived another 50 years. Point being- fireworks are just pretty bombs. It's still a bomb and doesn't care you think it's pretty.
My ex was a paramedic in Detroit. He picked up a woman on July 5th who had found an M80 in her boyfriend's pocket and, thinking it was a candle due to extreme intoxication, lit it. Upon arrival on scene, all hand bones were intact, although completely denuded of flesh. Bleeding was minimal due to cauterization. Interestingly, tendons were still intact, demonstrated when the patient tapped on the hand of said paramedic, COMPLETELY FREAKING HIM THE EFF OUT. So. That's what happens, kids.
@@michaelmain1990 sadly though, not enough doctors understand that. Very seldom do I get a laugh when a new doc finds out I had an "express 50,000lb enema." 😂
"Based on the high speed, it spent a while in the flames." "Yeah... I wonder what that's like." "Okay, you're done." I busted out laughing on that one!
Some people don't realize the true force behind these things. About 7 years ago now, one of my buddies from high school had a little brother who had just turned 21, drinking with his buddies, and lighting off fireworks on the 4th. One of his brother's buddies had the horrible idea to strap a firework on top of a hard-hat, and have someone wear it and light it off, and I'm not sure, but they were probably trying to record it also. Well, they lit the firework, and when it exploded, the overpressure wave from the explosion ripped through the hard-hat and traveled through his ears and eyes, and essentially liquified part of his brain. Look at what overpressure waves do to organs and flesh in the human body. This video is a good example. He survived part of the night in the ICU, but died the next day. Stay safe out there, people, and always treat fireworks as if they're dangerous, because they certainly are.
There have been multiple people who have died this exact way, most notably one of the actors who used to play Gaston at Disney World who died at age 20 after launching a mortar-type firework off the top of his head. It apparently completely blew his head apart. You’re right, people don’t realize the downward force generated by a large firework taking off and how anyone who tries this stunt will die. Fireworks are not toys, people.
I, personally would never have done that. I also didn't have an account at the fireworks store in my teens! ;) And I don't have a crate of 36 shot candles in my storage container.
My aunt’s methed-out husband once tried to launch a mortar firework while holding the launch tube in his lap. Instead of blowing the firework high up into the sky the initial detonation blew out the bottom of the launch tube and pulverized his legs and junk. This caused him to try curling up in pain which caused him to kind of hunch forward over the still-ticking firework sitting in his lap. When the main shell exploded he took it directly to his torso, legs, arms, and face. The damage he suffered was on par with Adam’s RPG accident. He lived but had some pretty gnarly burn scars all over the front of his body.
I’m a volunteer Firefighter EMT. Every year we have AT LEAST two firework related injuries. Surprising it’s rarely kids, it’s almost always middle aged men who’ve had a few too many beers. Sparklers and firecrackers every time UPDATE: just one yesterday. Lady sat on a sparkler
40 years ago I was a park ranger at a giant park that was having 4th of July celebrations all day. Early evening we came under intense fire from drunks shooting roman candles and bottle rockets at us. No one was injured, but I had a bottle rocket fly into my open jacket and explode by my side. Later that night there was a professional fireworks show where they fired the mortars over the large lake in the park. I had the awesome duty of going out on the lake in our boat, parking under the arc of the fireworks, and watching the show from the best seat in the house (just in case a dud fell into the lake, to retrieve it before kids got it -- not sure that would have been healthy for me, but I was young). It was really, really beautiful, magnified by the colors reflecting off the water all around me.
I did water safety, lol, during shows over lakes long time ago. One 6 inch mortar didn't get enough lift charge. It went up REAL short, and was on its way down as it went off, right over me. Burned big hole thru the boat canopy and took paint off engine cover. A few singed hairs and ringing ears was all I got. BUT IT WAS AWSOME! LOL
@@DrEpicPhD The fear was it would float to shore. It sounded stupid to me, but if someone orders you to lay back on a boat to watch a fireworks display right above you, you don't say no!
A real life hand held over a Mortar test would have fared much worse. A lot of the energy was converted to motion, the a real hand is typically attached to an arm, something resistant to flying several feet away. And the watermelon shot was epic!
Roughly 12 years ago. My uncle had a very traumatic injury due to fireworks. For some context, we had golf ball sized fireworks that would output roughly half a stick of dynamite in explosive power, those little bastards would blow a hole in the ground almost a foot deep and roughly a foot around. So needless to say, they pack a punch. But the one he was holding when it exploded prematurely, was the size of a men’s softball. So imagine the sheer destructive difference between the golf ball sized one and the one he was holding. When it exploded, thankfully the only thing that was caught in the blast was his right hand, holding it. But when I say it turned his hand into a red mist, and peeled his skin back like a banana, from his wrist almost 3/4ths the way to his elbow. In the end he lost his hand completely and no fingers or anything were found to reattach. We found a new respect for fireworks after that.
Used to know a guy that made some awesome fireworks. Stopped when a customer got drunk and forgot to throw it … it blew all the fingers off his hand. Dude blamed and never forgave himself until he took his own life a few years later for ruining someone else’s.
@@YuckFoutube-e1zin America, where you lose everything because of privatized healthcare, and can no longer find a job because of a lack of workers’ rights, it absolutely can.
8:05 How to get a permanent "Vulcan salute". BTW it makes a BIG difference closed vs open fingers. You can hold a firecracker bewteen two fingers, it will feel like your fingers got slapped hard and they'll go numb, but in a closed fiist, it will definately mangle your hand.
I know how that feels, but by a different cause: Years ago, I was grinding a piece of steel on a bench grinding wheel to prepare it to be TIG welded. I was holding it in my hand (should have been using pliers or something, because it was a small piece) and I got the angle wrong holding it against the wheel. The steel must have flipped over (or something like that) and in the space of a blink, the grinding wheel caused the piece to SLAP the tips of my fingers on both hands. The pain was so bad I thought for sure my finger tips were broken (they weren't), but they were numb to the touch for a couple of hours.
@@atlasisshrugging Yeah, kickback on power tools feels pretty similar to a firecracker going off. With the numbness and pain at the same time you can't tell if nothing got damaged or you have really hurt yourself. Really gross and weird.
I had that exact thing happen during New Year's Eve celebrations in Germany some years ago. My brother and I had procured the family fireworks supply that year, and we'd found (among other things) a box of something like two dozen "Böller" (large firecrackers), each about an inch and a half wide and about four inches long. Normally, fireworks sold for New Years in Germany are high quality. To be imported they have to undergo strict inspections, so one rarely has problems with them. This box, however, was different. I suspect it was overstock from the previous year and had been stored in a damp place, because we were getting very inconsistent results from the ones we tossed off the balcony. Some went "Bang!" as intended. Others blew sparks out the fuze plug, or out of both ends. Probably because the clay plugs that seal the ends of the tube had deteriorated and weren't holding the pressure in. We also had a few completely fail, with no explosion when the fuse burned down. The last one I threw, I held with my thumb and forefinger, by the end opposite the fuse. I had my arm back ready to throw, my brother lit the fuse, and I started to throw it. The fuse malfunctioned. Instead of burning down, the flame jumped immediately to the firework, and the damn' thing went off in my hand. But...because I was only gripping the end of the cylinder, "all" that happened was that my hand went numb, the side of my face felt like I'd been slapped very hard, and I had some really great tinnitus in my right ear for the next five minutes or so. We retired that box after that incident, needless to say. The rest of the evening's fireworks, however, went off without a hitch.
Literally, yeah My PE teacher in high school had that. Because he picked up an unexploded Polish firecracker when he was a kid. Tail end of the fuse was still smoldering, so it went off as soon as he picked it up Unfortunately even that wasn’t enough to deter any of us from our national New Year’s pastime. If anything, our year had a disproportionate amount of firework related incidents compared to every other cluster of first year students in the preceding decade. Though that had less to do with him and everything to do with the fact that 80% of our year consisted of farmer’s kids who literally did nothing but goof around with flashpowder bombs in their spare time
About six years ago my dad and i were launching small mortars, and one of our tubes got damaged and one of the mortars detonated right above the tube and was basically a mini flashbang to us.
One of my parents has a friend colloquially known as One Eye Joey; you might not have guessed it, but he has one eye. Anyways, one year on the 4th of July, Joey is having some fun with his friends celebrating the holiday by eating good food, drinking shitty beer, and lighting off fireworks. He had lit off a firework known as an artillery shell. It launches up and makes a chest pounding boom with a single explosion of color, and is what most people think of when they think of a firework. Well, after he lit the fuse and ran away, he waited for it to go off. It hadn't, so he went over to it and put his face over the mortar and all pf a sudden this firework launches up into his face and explodes. His side of his face is covered in scars and he unfortunately lost his eye. Joey shaves his head and has became a large advocate for firework information and safety, and may have became a nurse.
Kind of surreal to see your burn scar in more or less the same location than the first firecracker and then realize that it is from a much, much bigger firecracker basically going off in your hand.
9:49 you should cover Roman candles that explode! Fourth of July 2023 my son was holding one and it exploded within a foot of both of our faces. Fortunately, neither one of us was injured, but it could’ve been bad.
7:23 earns a SUB! 👍👍 While there are SERIOUS lessons here, But this is the FUNNIEST firework vidja I saw all year! I'm a huge "pyro" fan for over 50 years, I STILL have all my digits, Worst thing I ever got was a decent burn from a SPARKLER rod, But that was in 1968, I was 6!
the first test with the small firecracker isn't that bad tbh, mostly cuz the bottom of those things don't explode with the rest of the firecracker, as long as you pinch the bottom, it'll be like you got a light shock on your fingers, don't do it tho but yeah
Everytime I see you two do explosive stuff, I think of that horrible event and the video you made of it. Makes me worried every time. I am so happy to see you alright and healthy today. Both of you.
Reminds me of my childhood, 4th of July with my dad on my grandparents farm. Dad would buy me models throughout the year and on the 4th we'dake em fly, drive, and of course explode...lol....thanks for the trip down memory lane fellers.
Guy last year out at Moonrocls NV was being drunk and obnoxious all night, and around midnight he finally got his hands on a mini-mortar. He accidentally put it on his palm upside down and had someone light it off, i think yall can guess what happened to his hand... Pretty sure the docs managed to save his hand, but i think he's down to a index finger and thumb with about half his palm pretty much just gone.
8:21 I saw a video on Reddit were a guy at a party lights a homemade firework or mortar shell like thing he proceeds to hold it, it goes off with 2-3 fingers with it and then thinks nothing of it then drinks a beer 🫡
@@MissouriMetalisn’t it the bud light mascot video? Where’s he’s on the top of the dirt dome and just too drunk and try’s to play it off when asked to for medical help?
I think that 2 years from today. The guys from Ballistic High-Speed and the guys from Slo-Mo Guys should get together and do a show to celebrate America's 250th Independence Day. With a series of combined ideas for some of the BEST High-Speed/Slo-Mo explosion sequences ever filmed!
The British and the Americans put aside their differences for one day to celebrate the time American farmers with shotguns beat the world's largest military out of their country
Between hydraulic presses, press brakes, machine tools of all kinds dating back to 1920s and no saftey mechs of any kind, I am blessed to have all my digits. Add fireworks into the mix and it's a downright miracle I have any fingers at all.
I discovered the electric torch idea for fireworks 20 or so years ago. A friend invited my daughter and I over for the 4th. I was getting the 4th. I was getting the punks out and my buddy came down the driveway with a torch and an ear to ear grin. He clicked it on.... I also remember a story from high school days from Kansas. Some kids bought a gross of M80s, and were going down the highway in a pick up. They were lighting them and tossing some out the window. One went into the bed of the pick up where the bulk were stashed, and it blew the rest of the M80s up killing the kids. Darwin award!
I work for a level 1 trauma center and it’s not whether it will happen but when it will during the season. Typically from around Memorial Day until the and of summer. I can take seeing a lot, but looking at these injuries in person are on another level
I’ve never had the idea of holding onto a firework (besides bottle rockets) but I definitely don’t wanna hold onto any other fireworks oh and btw Adam thank your dad for the added subscriber lol he’s one of my foreman at work I found out about your channel from the rpg incident, he’s always telling us about the cool stuff yall do, keep the badass videos coming guys!
I was at a fireworks show on a golf course when I was a teen - a VERY long time ago. A mortar bomb didn't fully go off, and landed a few feet from some people. The salute blew a crater in the ground about an inch deep and more than a foot across. Thank goodness nobody was hurt!
This is probably impossible, but imagine if you guys had some sort of camera within these bodies to showcase the actual shock done within. Most of the lethality in these things, namely explosives, is how the waves of energy pull tissue apart and back again in milliseconds, and when anything like that is near your head you've essentially turned your brain into slush from having it torn down microscopically.
Dude when I was younger my dad got some 6” mortars from a bar in town, we put a stove pipe in the ground and it fit perfectly, well it didn’t gain enough momentum and well it flopped out of the tube, landed by the garage, exploded, dented the garage door, busted the back window of the car, dented the trunk and damn near took us out lol. Mortars are no joke!
So that scene in 'Would You Rather' is pretty accurate. It was bigger than the first one, but not nearly as big as the second one. They duct taped his fingers together to hold one. It knocked a few segments of his fingers, then died from shock.
just for precision's sake we cannot forget that ballistic gel properties are highly affected by temperature, it actually gets sticky and melts just standing in the sun let alone being burned to a crisp by mortar fireworks or whatever that thing was before being blown away, but the dangers are still there and still very well depicted here...
In europe, we sometimes use firevrackers with often something like potassium nitrate, those are powerful, not much more powerful than gunpowder, but it explodes way faster especially at lower grains, like .2 grams is way louder than 10 grams of black powder
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@@pauljordan0203they definitely know.they mentioned him on 50 cal explosion when dude got the rpg
Thank you for doing all of the retarded things we've all wanted to do, and catching it on high speed!
@@BallisticHighSpeed you are growing hemp on that berm! Let it grow! 🪴
The Dangers of Fireworks cannot be overstated. I want to cover this topic for quite some time as I have seen quite a few injuries in the hospital setting of people who were mishandling fireworks. Great job guys.
This is the collab I didn't realize I needed until I just now realized I don't have it. I think I kept my tenses correct there.
can't wait to see you explain all the details of these various "injuries" i love learning all the weird and wacky names for all kinds of bones and ligaments
@@Samonie67 in the mean time, allow me to be of assistance; "that's the finger bone. I think it goes inside instead of outside". This is why we need this collab. ;)
My grandfather, before I was born, looked down the barrel of a mortar firework he thought failed to fire. It fired when he was looking down it. Lost his left eye and broke, y'know, most of the left side of his face. Doctors were surprised he wasn't dead. They put his skull and face together using, from what I understand, plastics and by they time they released him the only real noticeable damage was the missing eye. He lived another 50 years.
Point being- fireworks are just pretty bombs. It's still a bomb and doesn't care you think it's pretty.
I bet you have some horror stories.. 😅
My ex was a paramedic in Detroit. He picked up a woman on July 5th who had found an M80 in her boyfriend's pocket and, thinking it was a candle due to extreme intoxication, lit it. Upon arrival on scene, all hand bones were intact, although completely denuded of flesh. Bleeding was minimal due to cauterization. Interestingly, tendons were still intact, demonstrated when the patient tapped on the hand of said paramedic, COMPLETELY FREAKING HIM THE EFF OUT. So. That's what happens, kids.
Being a paramedic is a tough job. Can't imagine being one in Detroit...
It took her skin! Can’t have anything in Detroit!
When were m80s last made?
LOL "Must of spent alot of time in the flames!" "Yeah I wonder what thats like" FUCKING killed me
Joking of trauma helps heal alot more than people think
That’s how you know they are true friends…
Nearly killed Adam too!
@@michaelmain1990 sadly though, not enough doctors understand that. Very seldom do I get a laugh when a new doc finds out I had an "express 50,000lb enema." 😂
@CP_BlessediDad I'm gonna need that explained cheif
"Based on the high speed, it spent a while in the flames."
"Yeah... I wonder what that's like."
"Okay, you're done."
I busted out laughing on that one!
One might say that he was well done
...and the next slow mo is essentially recreating The Accident xD
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actually hilarious lol
Funniest comeback of the show..."What are you, a cop?"
Some people don't realize the true force behind these things. About 7 years ago now, one of my buddies from high school had a little brother who had just turned 21, drinking with his buddies, and lighting off fireworks on the 4th. One of his brother's buddies had the horrible idea to strap a firework on top of a hard-hat, and have someone wear it and light it off, and I'm not sure, but they were probably trying to record it also. Well, they lit the firework, and when it exploded, the overpressure wave from the explosion ripped through the hard-hat and traveled through his ears and eyes, and essentially liquified part of his brain. Look at what overpressure waves do to organs and flesh in the human body. This video is a good example. He survived part of the night in the ICU, but died the next day. Stay safe out there, people, and always treat fireworks as if they're dangerous, because they certainly are.
There have been multiple people who have died this exact way, most notably one of the actors who used to play Gaston at Disney World who died at age 20 after launching a mortar-type firework off the top of his head. It apparently completely blew his head apart. You’re right, people don’t realize the downward force generated by a large firework taking off and how anyone who tries this stunt will die. Fireworks are not toys, people.
Someone did this very same thing this year on the 4th. Is there an inspirational source for the top hat launchpad?
Another winner of the Darwin award
Someone down here in summerville died this way, what the fuck is wrong with folks?
@@FranTusajigweit’s not them it’s the alcohol obviously
roman candle fights, when i was a kid, were the highlight of the 4th...after burgers and dogs, of course
100% simpler times
Letting them off on your BMX & throwing on the roofs of people's houses
We were building different, modern kinds will get PTSD from just thinking about doing something like that!😂
I, personally would never have done that. I also didn't have an account at the fireworks store in my teens! ;) And I don't have a crate of 36 shot candles in my storage container.
@@pjford1118I bet you didn’t make your own sodium chlorate bombs either! 😂
My aunt’s methed-out husband once tried to launch a mortar firework while holding the launch tube in his lap. Instead of blowing the firework high up into the sky the initial detonation blew out the bottom of the launch tube and pulverized his legs and junk. This caused him to try curling up in pain which caused him to kind of hunch forward over the still-ticking firework sitting in his lap. When the main shell exploded he took it directly to his torso, legs, arms, and face. The damage he suffered was on par with Adam’s RPG accident. He lived but had some pretty gnarly burn scars all over the front of his body.
Oh my god..
Dude, that's methed up.
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LMAO
I'm sorry for laughing at this. I'm glad he made it out alive, though.
@@mfree80286😂
Keep that charred hand as a pointer for future episodes!
I'm wondering if that will become a long term gimmick.
Have heard those gel things don't last too long unfortunately, would make a nice running joke
@@Sk1m_Beeble maybe they could coat it in resin. It'd be a shame to see a good prop gone too soon.
Or to wave around the next time he plays a DIO music video.
NEVER buy fireworks from a guy named Lefty!!😳🚑
14:35 "this is too graphic to show on youtube" shows it anyway
Perfect timing fellas!😂
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Sup Kagan, happy 4th!
Just if Jason Pierre Paul saw this safety video a few years earlier
I’m a volunteer Firefighter EMT. Every year we have AT LEAST two firework related injuries. Surprising it’s rarely kids, it’s almost always middle aged men who’ve had a few too many beers. Sparklers and firecrackers every time
UPDATE: just one yesterday. Lady sat on a sparkler
I learned the hard way to never light a sparkler with a BIC cigarette lighter. Those bastards burn REAL hot.
I've heard of having your back blown out but that is on a different level 😅
How do u sit on a sparkler😮😢
40 years ago I was a park ranger at a giant park that was having 4th of July celebrations all day. Early evening we came under intense fire from drunks shooting roman candles and bottle rockets at us. No one was injured, but I had a bottle rocket fly into my open jacket and explode by my side. Later that night there was a professional fireworks show where they fired the mortars over the large lake in the park. I had the awesome duty of going out on the lake in our boat, parking under the arc of the fireworks, and watching the show from the best seat in the house (just in case a dud fell into the lake, to retrieve it before kids got it -- not sure that would have been healthy for me, but I was young). It was really, really beautiful, magnified by the colors reflecting off the water all around me.
How shallow was the lake that the kids could get it?
@@DrEpicPhDdud motar round float , due to the small amount of air inside and being made of paper.
I did water safety, lol, during shows over lakes long time ago.
One 6 inch mortar didn't get enough lift charge. It went up REAL short, and was on its way down as it went off, right over me. Burned big hole thru the boat canopy and took paint off engine cover. A few singed hairs and ringing ears was all I got. BUT IT WAS AWSOME! LOL
@@rssvss Outstanding! I should have mentioned that they made me wear a motorcycle helmet just in case what you described happened!
@@DrEpicPhD The fear was it would float to shore. It sounded stupid to me, but if someone orders you to lay back on a boat to watch a fireworks display right above you, you don't say no!
A real life hand held over a Mortar test would have fared much worse. A lot of the energy was converted to motion, the a real hand is typically attached to an arm, something resistant to flying several feet away. And the watermelon shot was epic!
Roughly 12 years ago. My uncle had a very traumatic injury due to fireworks. For some context, we had golf ball sized fireworks that would output roughly half a stick of dynamite in explosive power, those little bastards would blow a hole in the ground almost a foot deep and roughly a foot around. So needless to say, they pack a punch. But the one he was holding when it exploded prematurely, was the size of a men’s softball. So imagine the sheer destructive difference between the golf ball sized one and the one he was holding. When it exploded, thankfully the only thing that was caught in the blast was his right hand, holding it. But when I say it turned his hand into a red mist, and peeled his skin back like a banana, from his wrist almost 3/4ths the way to his elbow. In the end he lost his hand completely and no fingers or anything were found to reattach. We found a new respect for fireworks after that.
Does that actually still classify as a firework ? I'd say that's just a bomb at that point. A relatively small one, but a bomb nonetheless.
Used to know a guy that made some awesome fireworks. Stopped when a customer got drunk and forgot to throw it … it blew all the fingers off his hand. Dude blamed and never forgave himself until he took his own life a few years later for ruining someone else’s.
Sad story. Wasn't his fault the guy blew his hand off. He made a damn good quality product. Not his fault.
I mean losing a hand is not at all nice but it doesn't ruin a life.
@@YuckFoutube-e1zin America, where you lose everything because of privatized healthcare, and can no longer find a job because of a lack of workers’ rights, it absolutely can.
Unironically the best ad for safety glasses I've ever seen! Oh, the explosions were cool too, I guess!
17:46 watermelen shrapnel satisfying
8:05 How to get a permanent "Vulcan salute".
BTW it makes a BIG difference closed vs open fingers. You can hold a firecracker bewteen two fingers, it will feel like your fingers got slapped hard and they'll go numb, but in a closed fiist, it will definately mangle your hand.
yeah every tenth firecracker i lit had a very quick fuse lol had quite a few go off in my hand
I know how that feels, but by a different cause:
Years ago, I was grinding a piece of steel on a bench grinding wheel to prepare it to be TIG welded. I was holding it in my hand (should have been using pliers or something, because it was a small piece) and I got the angle wrong holding it against the wheel. The steel must have flipped over (or something like that) and in the space of a blink, the grinding wheel caused the piece to SLAP the tips of my fingers on both hands.
The pain was so bad I thought for sure my finger tips were broken (they weren't), but they were numb to the touch for a couple of hours.
@@atlasisshrugging Yeah, kickback on power tools feels pretty similar to a firecracker going off. With the numbness and pain at the same time you can't tell if nothing got damaged or you have really hurt yourself.
Really gross and weird.
I had that exact thing happen during New Year's Eve celebrations in Germany some years ago. My brother and I had procured the family fireworks supply that year, and we'd found (among other things) a box of something like two dozen "Böller" (large firecrackers), each about an inch and a half wide and about four inches long.
Normally, fireworks sold for New Years in Germany are high quality. To be imported they have to undergo strict inspections, so one rarely has problems with them. This box, however, was different. I suspect it was overstock from the previous year and had been stored in a damp place, because we were getting very inconsistent results from the ones we tossed off the balcony. Some went "Bang!" as intended. Others blew sparks out the fuze plug, or out of both ends. Probably because the clay plugs that seal the ends of the tube had deteriorated and weren't holding the pressure in. We also had a few completely fail, with no explosion when the fuse burned down.
The last one I threw, I held with my thumb and forefinger, by the end opposite the fuse. I had my arm back ready to throw, my brother lit the fuse, and I started to throw it. The fuse malfunctioned. Instead of burning down, the flame jumped immediately to the firework, and the damn' thing went off in my hand.
But...because I was only gripping the end of the cylinder, "all" that happened was that my hand went numb, the side of my face felt like I'd been slapped very hard, and I had some really great tinnitus in my right ear for the next five minutes or so.
We retired that box after that incident, needless to say. The rest of the evening's fireworks, however, went off without a hitch.
Literally, yeah
My PE teacher in high school had that. Because he picked up an unexploded Polish firecracker when he was a kid. Tail end of the fuse was still smoldering, so it went off as soon as he picked it up
Unfortunately even that wasn’t enough to deter any of us from our national New Year’s pastime. If anything, our year had a disproportionate amount of firework related incidents compared to every other cluster of first year students in the preceding decade. Though that had less to do with him and everything to do with the fact that 80% of our year consisted of farmer’s kids who literally did nothing but goof around with flashpowder bombs in their spare time
I've had a firecracker prematurely detonate in my hand and yeah, it feels like someone hit you in the hand with a hot sledgehammer
4:13 "dont try this at home go to your friendshouse"
"We're professionals"
@@mattress203😭😭
About six years ago my dad and i were launching small mortars, and one of our tubes got damaged and one of the mortars detonated right above the tube and was basically a mini flashbang to us.
That "what's up brother" had me crying 🤣🤣🤣
One of my parents has a friend colloquially known as One Eye Joey; you might not have guessed it, but he has one eye. Anyways, one year on the 4th of July, Joey is having some fun with his friends celebrating the holiday by eating good food, drinking shitty beer, and lighting off fireworks. He had lit off a firework known as an artillery shell. It launches up and makes a chest pounding boom with a single explosion of color, and is what most people think of when they think of a firework. Well, after he lit the fuse and ran away, he waited for it to go off. It hadn't, so he went over to it and put his face over the mortar and all pf a sudden this firework launches up into his face and explodes. His side of his face is covered in scars and he unfortunately lost his eye.
Joey shaves his head and has became a large advocate for firework information and safety, and may have became a nurse.
love how you two just genuinly sound like your having fun this feel like im watching two freids goof off rather than since love it
total Slow Mo Guys energy lol
You had a Biden moment towards the end of this comment.
@@Chicky_Lumps"Troofaninternashinalpressure!" - First black vice president of a black president running for the senate in 2020
That watermelon explosion is one of the best slow-mo shot I have ever seen.
Please always use that burned ballistic hand to point things out! LMAO
Remember, people: Fireworks ARE explosives/incendiaries. Do not underestimate them.
Kind of surreal to see your burn scar in more or less the same location than the first firecracker and then realize that it is from a much, much bigger firecracker basically going off in your hand.
video was just recommended to me. that united Healthcare ceo article didn't age well lol
Glad to see that all that RPG accident did was give you a kickass scar and a story to tell. Love the videos
This video should be Mandatory viewing for Everyone buying or Using Fireworks! Great job guys!!!❤❤❤
Holy moly! I was not expecting the roman candles to do that much damage! I always thought they were really small light weight things, not slugs!
Such an underrated channel for this level of quality and effort, you guys deserve way more
The classic light and scuttle tactics of firework fun lol
17:38 best shot
this channel is getting better and better with these fun ideas 😅💪💪
As someone who works in an ER, this is perfectly timed for release.
This is a nice way to teach people about the dangers of fireworks without having a live leak watermark in the top right corner. 😅
As a professional pyrotechnician THAT WAS AWESOME FOOTAGE! Thanks for that guys. You earned a subscriber!
The watermelon exploding is the coolest image you guys have done. The symmetry of the explosion is almost perfect.
9:49 you should cover Roman candles that explode! Fourth of July 2023 my son was holding one and it exploded within a foot of both of our faces. Fortunately, neither one of us was injured, but it could’ve been bad.
Guy just died in South Carolina for putting one on his head on the 4th this year
7:23 earns a SUB! 👍👍 While there are SERIOUS lessons here, But this is the FUNNIEST firework vidja I saw all year! I'm a huge "pyro" fan for over 50 years, I STILL have all my digits, Worst thing I ever got was a decent burn from a SPARKLER rod, But that was in 1968, I was 6!
That hand sure upscales Othais's "patented plastic pokey" to a new level.
Absolute QUALITY content, guys! Keep being safe and showing us this AWESOME content.
the first test with the small firecracker isn't that bad tbh, mostly cuz the bottom of those things don't explode with the rest of the firecracker, as long as you pinch the bottom, it'll be like you got a light shock on your fingers, don't do it tho but yeah
Everytime I see you two do explosive stuff, I think of that horrible event and the video you made of it. Makes me worried every time.
I am so happy to see you alright and healthy today. Both of you.
That melon really demonstrates how well the incompressibility of water transfers energy!
Chernobyl could've ended up like this, scary
Reminds me of my childhood, 4th of July with my dad on my grandparents farm. Dad would buy me models throughout the year and on the 4th we'dake em fly, drive, and of course explode...lol....thanks for the trip down memory lane fellers.
"Wonder what that's like " hit me like an RPG 😆😆😆😆
Fellas, you are every Gun-Tubers wet dream! 😉😂🎉
Guy last year out at Moonrocls NV was being drunk and obnoxious all night, and around midnight he finally got his hands on a mini-mortar. He accidentally put it on his palm upside down and had someone light it off, i think yall can guess what happened to his hand... Pretty sure the docs managed to save his hand, but i think he's down to a index finger and thumb with about half his palm pretty much just gone.
And it looked almost exactly like the “Spock hand” / crab claw hand in the video.
14:16 that was called a salute shell, meaning it was all noise and no color! (No color meaning silver or golden color when exploding)
10:53 The fact that you used the broken hand's index finger to point with is just😆
Salutes use something called flash powder which is more explosive and has a louder boom, they also put titanium for extra flash color.
Damn this really put some stuff into perspective of how dangerous fireworks actually are.
I hopefully get my pyro license this year after working shows 3 summers in a row, then taking the tests in WA state! Love this!
8:21 I saw a video on Reddit were a guy at a party lights a homemade firework or mortar shell like thing he proceeds to hold it, it goes off with 2-3 fingers with it and then thinks nothing of it then drinks a beer 🫡
That's shock for ya. Gonna be a baaaad time once reality sets in.
That alcohol is not gonna last very long and then the real pain will set in. I bet when he woke up he was absolutely depressed as hell.
The sad part is it's still on Reddit
@@MissouriMetalisn’t it the bud light mascot video? Where’s he’s on the top of the dirt dome and just too drunk and try’s to play it off when asked to for medical help?
@@CoyoteroApachu yes the exact one
A real blast, as always.
I gotta say… I found ballistic high speed after Adam’s accident and this channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites!
@ 17:40 kentucky ballistics just loses his mind and smashes that like button
Great stuff gentlemen!!
Red White and Blew ⬆️!
Happy 4th Cousins!
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Wow wow wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Guys thank you soooooooooooooo much for sharing this AWESOME video!!!! I've gotta try this out!!!!
I think that 2 years from today. The guys from Ballistic High-Speed and the guys from Slo-Mo Guys should get together and do a show to celebrate America's 250th Independence Day. With a series of combined ideas for some of the BEST High-Speed/Slo-Mo explosion sequences ever filmed!
That would be EPIC!💯👍
The British and the Americans put aside their differences for one day to celebrate the time American farmers with shotguns beat the world's largest military out of their country
Enjoying fireworks in slow-mo is an interesting proposition
Usually it's fleeting, but you can stretch these moments with a camera
ok, the visual is awesome...the slow-mo sound effects are AMAZING
Foley is an underappreciated aspect of filmmaking IMO
Between hydraulic presses, press brakes, machine tools of all kinds dating back to 1920s and no saftey mechs of any kind, I am blessed to have all my digits. Add fireworks into the mix and it's a downright miracle I have any fingers at all.
A 4th of July special on the 4th of July with you guys was AWESOME!!!!!!!
I discovered the electric torch idea for fireworks 20 or so years ago. A friend invited my daughter and I over for the 4th. I was getting the 4th. I was getting the punks out and my buddy came down the driveway with a torch and an ear to ear grin. He clicked it on....
I also remember a story from high school days from Kansas. Some kids bought a gross of M80s, and were going down the highway in a pick up. They were lighting them and tossing some out the window. One went into the bed of the pick up where the bulk were stashed, and it blew the rest of the M80s up killing the kids. Darwin award!
I had no idea you guys were so close to me! Love the content guys! Keep up the amazing work!
10:57 What’s up brother ☝🏻 lmfao
I actually held one of those small red firecrackers and I can say it didn’t feel good but no real damage, just hurt for a good 30 minutes
Missed "butt firework" and "ass rockets"... ☹️
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Nice vid! 👍
I work for a level 1 trauma center and it’s not whether it will happen but when it will during the season. Typically from around Memorial Day until the and of summer. I can take seeing a lot, but looking at these injuries in person are on another level
3:10 Alien Facehugger
It ain't hugging shit no more
15:08 Instant Francis Bacon painting. Or Alien. 🤣🤣🤣
"Don't try this at home.., go to a friend's house.." lol 😅
I’ve never had the idea of holding onto a firework (besides bottle rockets) but I definitely don’t wanna hold onto any other fireworks oh and btw Adam thank your dad for the added subscriber lol he’s one of my foreman at work I found out about your channel from the rpg incident, he’s always telling us about the cool stuff yall do, keep the badass videos coming guys!
That watermelon shot could absolutely be used in a big-budget movie for some sort of asteroid impact.
I have to love Adam's dark humor of using a crispy hand to continue the majority of the video.
I was at a fireworks show on a golf course when I was a teen - a VERY long time ago. A mortar bomb didn't fully go off, and landed a few feet from some people. The salute blew a crater in the ground about an inch deep and more than a foot across. Thank goodness nobody was hurt!
This is probably impossible, but imagine if you guys had some sort of camera within these bodies to showcase the actual shock done within.
Most of the lethality in these things, namely explosives, is how the waves of energy pull tissue apart and back again in milliseconds, and when anything like that is near your head you've essentially turned your brain into slush from having it torn down microscopically.
“Wonder what that’s like 😏”
“Ok you’re done”
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Daaang! This is awesome 😮 morbid curiosity FTW
"Wonder what that's like?" Had me laughing. I am glad this is something that you can joke about how.
The watermelon was amazing. Nice one!
I had a 2inch mortar go off in my closed hand. No lost fingers, but extensive third-degree burns.
Welcome to flash powder. That stuff is super powerful
10:56 This didn't age well
Exactly 😭
Why?
Awesome safety video, guys. Great job.
As a medical student, fireworks make some of the nastiest wounds I've seen when mishandled. But I doubt it will be the worst thing I've seen later on.
Fireworks are cool.
Firework injuries, not cool.
Lesson learned!
I love how of all the videos they've made, this is the one where they clarify "don't try this at home"
Dude when I was younger my dad got some 6” mortars from a bar in town, we put a stove pipe in the ground and it fit perfectly, well it didn’t gain enough momentum and well it flopped out of the tube, landed by the garage, exploded, dented the garage door, busted the back window of the car, dented the trunk and damn near took us out lol. Mortars are no joke!
Some of the most fun I ever had as a kid was shoulder firing bottle rockets out of a steel pipe.
I used to use empty beer bottles to fire good old bottle rockets
I just made a firework rocket launcher this year worked great
We did that too. I remember firing it at my friend who had a boat tipped over and he was under it using it like a shield.
So that scene in 'Would You Rather' is pretty accurate.
It was bigger than the first one, but not nearly as big as the second one. They duct taped his fingers together to hold one. It knocked a few segments of his fingers, then died from shock.
just for precision's sake we cannot forget that ballistic gel properties are highly affected by temperature, it actually gets sticky and melts just standing in the sun let alone being burned to a crisp by mortar fireworks or whatever that thing was before being blown away, but the dangers are still there and still very well depicted here...
This whole video was amazing!
In europe, we sometimes use firevrackers with often something like potassium nitrate, those are powerful, not much more powerful than gunpowder, but it explodes way faster especially at lower grains, like .2 grams is way louder than 10 grams of black powder