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gunpowder redneck explosion.

2007 Reader Submission
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While listening to music one day,my mother burst into my room,and yelled ''your cousin joey got blowed up.''I jumped to my feet,and got in my car only to find him at the hospity in critical condition.Apparently,what he had done was poured a line of gunpowder from his front pourch,to the pasture in the back yard just to see if it would blow up like in the movies.Being 18 at the time he should have known,but lit the powder anyway.The powder lit like expected but did not blow up...expectedly.From the time it took him to walk from the front yard to pasture in the back yard the spark under the powder was smoldering under the mound he had poured at the end of the trail of gunpowder.As he played with the mound of gunpowder he gave the spark alittle more oxigen than it needed,and the powder blew up in his face throwing him from the pasture into the barn about 30 yards away.His mother knowing what happened rushed to his aide,and called 911.He was airlifted to the hospital,and placed in critical condition.He spent about 3month's in there,and undergoing a number of sergery.They drafted skin from his buttock's to his face to heal the wound's he recived from the burn's.Now his name is simply ''buttface.''

Submitted on 09/20/2007

Submitted by: Jessie A. James
Reference: local news paper 3 august 1999.

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Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Jesse, I am a bit incredulous about this one, since gunpowder normally will flash instead of explode unless it is confined in some way, and it does not need much oxygen to burn. Couple that with the fact that it would take a heck of an explosion to hurl a full grown man 150 feet and your punch line... well... we can suspend belief when it is a Personal Account. We appreciate the submission.


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
This story does sound quite hard to believe but as Chip indicated we can suspend belief for humorous Personal Accounts. Thanks for sending it in.


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