Brains instead of Confetti 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
Two or three years ago, I heard about a fatal accident during a carnival
parade in a small town near Wiesbaden, Germany. One Truck was a gun firing
confetti.
After a few shots it stopped working and one of the guys responsible for it
held his head inside the gun despite of the warnings of his collegues. He
even pulled the trigger two or three times with his head inside the
gun...and so his brain was spilled over the place together with the
remaining confetti.
In the following radio- interview one if the wittnesses said that the
victim´s head reminded him of a baseball cap that is worn with the shield
backwards after the shot.
Submitted on 04/16/2003
Submitted by:
Martin Berndt
Reference:
Radio Broadcasting
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READER Jochen Bern says, "I don't think this is possible, unless the
confetti gun was homegrown, misconstructed, and highly illegal. Standard
confetti guns are safe to fire directly over the heads of a not exactly
sober crowd. They are 4+ inches across, and the confetti is not propelled
by a blast wave, but rather, it flows along with pressurized air that is
released into the barrel. In an incident like the one described, it's
possible that a confetti cannon would take out an eye, or send the victim
flying backwards, perhaps cause superficial skin lesions. But spilling
one's brain all over the place? No way!
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