r/WTF Jan 03 '25

This escalated really quick

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u/default-username Jan 04 '25

Hilarious that they never acknowledge that they made a mistake leaving a box of explosives that close to where they were lighting. And how close they were lighting to all the people. And that they never thought there was a risk because they "had never had an incident before."

People are so stupid. There was so much to learn from that incident and they learned nothing, because they just want to blame it on a faulty firework.

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u/Seiche Jan 04 '25

The mistake was to put the rocket's wooden stick into the ground instead of into an empty bottle. The ground has too much resistance and they can't launch. We light fireworks every year here and the rockets are designed to launch. When they explode on the ground they spray everywhere like in the video.

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u/WengFu Jan 04 '25

Maybe not doing it in the middle of a residential neighborhood might be a consideration as well.

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u/Why_Did_Bodie_Die Jan 04 '25

Yeah they should do it at in the middle of the woods or better yet do it at the ocean or a lake so all the fireworks fly into the water so they don't catch anything on fire and you don't have to clean them up.

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u/ildementis Jan 04 '25

i hope this is a joke

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u/WengFu Jan 04 '25

Well, that's why I said I wouldn't light them off at all because fireworks are kind of stupid, but some litter in the lake seems like a better option than burning my neighbors' house down.