Man Dies Instantly After Shooting Firework on His Head!!!
22-year-old Devon Staples was known as a prankster, but on the 4th of July, he made headlines as Man Dies Instantly After Shooting Firework on His Head.
Yes it’s true, Devon Staples blew himself up being careless while playing with fireworks. CelebNMusic247.com heard about this tragic story that Staples was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July when he tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, killing him instantly, authorities said Sunday.
Here is the report:
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.
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.
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“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.”
Staples’s brother Cody told the Daily News of New York that he was a few feet away when his brother lit the firework and was the first to come to his side after it exploded.
“There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there,” said 25-year-old Cody Staples, who called it an accident.
“Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh,” he said.
Staples’ death is the first fireworks fatality in Maine since the state legalized fireworks on Jan. 1, 2012, authorities said.
Lawmakers had voted to repeal a 1949 law banning fireworks, reasoning the industry would create jobs and generate revenue.
Other Firework tragedies included two other men in two separate incidents taking one life and one leg:
In Montana on Saturday, a 32-year-old man was killed at a Billings home in a fireworks accident involving a mortar tube.
And in New Jersey, a 52-year-old man blew off a large piece of his left leg below the knee when he set off a tennis-ball sized firework in Leonia.
Fireworks are fun, but they are NOT JOKE. If you can still shoot fireworks where you live, have a parent there or someone who is responsible, as well as, a hose, baking soda or sand in case you start a fire.
Only shoot fireworks in safe places away from cars, dry fields or plants and make sure you are 10 feet away once you light the wick. Move back and watch – NEVER hold a firework or put it on your head!
