Fireworks Market Explosion near Mexico City.

[jbett98]

At least 29 people died Tuesday in an explosion at a fireworks market in the city of Tultepec

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[salmonriverjohn]

I'm sorry to hear about the loss of life.
They did go with BANGS though.

 

[Lilhigbee]

Sounds like Chicago at night!!

 

[clearconscience]

That was one heck of a show. Sweet heck.

 

[Stomper]

The signs CLEARLY said, NO FUMAR!!




Too bad the illiteracy rate is so high in Mexico.

 

[teflon6string]

I know folks who lost friends when confiscated fireworks lit off inside a storage bunker on Point Loma in San Diego several years ago.

No surprise this one. Stuff is grossly unstable, especially in the land of no habla osha.

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

 

[edslhead]

Very sad. But why didn't it happen at night.

 

[Certaindeaf]

This is why 100% destructive testing never caught on.

 

[ThePhonMan]

I've shot commercial fireworks shows for the last 39 years on July 4th and other holidays. Every year we hear about "accidents" that involve fatalities.

The truth is that I cannot recall a single incident that was not caused by stupidity, negligence or both. It always starts with mishandling product and never ends well. There is the occasional lightening strike that could be categorized as an accident since you can't control that but dropping shells, sliding boxes of product, smoking around product (I put this one in the felony stupid category and Darwin weeds them out of the gene pool), etc. are the usual causes. Having a healthy respect for an item that, when treated poorly, will require DNA samples to ID what's left of you is always a good way to start.

Each year we judge the success of a show by whether we can still count to 10 using only our fingers at the end of the night.