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<blockquote data-quote="Up Y'oars" data-source="post: 36303" data-attributes="member: 764"><p>I guess you have to be older than 25 to have some intelligence.....</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">CALAIS, Maine (AP) — A 22-year-old man who was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, killing him instantly, authorities said Sunday.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">Devon Staples and his friends had been drinking and setting off fireworks Saturday night in the backyard of a friend's home in eastern Maine, said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">Staples, 22, of Calais, a small city on the Canadian border, placed a reloadable fireworks mortar tube on his head and told his friends he was going to light it, McCausland said. But his friends urged him to stop.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'">"Apparently, he thought that was a great idea," McCausland said. "His friends they thought dissuaded him from doing it, and the next thing they knew, he ignited the fireworks and he was killed instantly."</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Up Y'oars, post: 36303, member: 764"] I guess you have to be older than 25 to have some intelligence..... [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]CALAIS, Maine (AP) — A 22-year-old man who was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, killing him instantly, authorities said Sunday.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]Devon Staples and his friends had been drinking and setting off fireworks Saturday night in the backyard of a friend's home in eastern Maine, said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]Staples, 22, of Calais, a small city on the Canadian border, placed a reloadable fireworks mortar tube on his head and told his friends he was going to light it, McCausland said. But his friends urged him to stop.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica Neue]"Apparently, he thought that was a great idea," McCausland said. "His friends they thought dissuaded him from doing it, and the next thing they knew, he ignited the fireworks and he was killed instantly."[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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