# Backside firework prank backfires **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 9, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705 "2006-11-09T15:20:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/1 "2006-11-09T15:20:37Z")
[From the BBC](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6132140.stm) :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: How could anyone think that this was a good idea? Si ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/2 "2006-11-09T15:31:11Z")
“scorched colon” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/3 "2006-11-09T15:39:03Z")
Now _that’s_ a ring of fire. Perhaps he was just trying to recreate the legend of William Wallace. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/4 "2006-11-09T15:39:45Z")
A “Black Cat Thunderbolt Rocket”? Dude, stick with the “Ladyfingers”. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/5 "2006-11-09T15:41:56Z")
[QUOTE=si\_blakely] How could anyone think that this was a good idea? [/QUOTE] Remember the “fire triangle” from school? Fuel, heat, oxygen. Witness the “A&E triangle”: beer, boredom and fire. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/6 "2006-11-09T15:49:11Z")
Have these guys never seen **Jackass**? Steve-O has been doing the “launch bottle-rockets from my arse” schtick for years. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/7 "2006-11-09T15:53:15Z")
I was immediately reminded me of this part of an [old Dope column](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_216b.html) : [QUOTE=Cecil Adams] In 1955 one man who was “feeling depressed” reportedly inserted a six-inch paper tube into his rectum, dropped in a lighted firecracker, and blew a hole in his anterior rectal wall. This changed his mood real quick. [/QUOTE] If there’s one think I’ve figured out over the years, is there’s nothing so stupid that someone, somewhere won’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/8 "2006-11-09T15:53:43Z")
Now there’s some rocket science even a butthole can grasp. ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/9 "2006-11-09T16:00:49Z")
Somebody pop a cap in this guy’s… Huh. Well then, nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/10 "2006-11-09T16:18:13Z")
Remind me to tell you sometime about the patient who scorched her lungs. She was on oxygen, you see, but still hadn’t _entirely_ given up smoking… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/11 "2006-11-09T16:42:28Z")
[QUOTE=OP linked article] A spokesman for the Firework Association described the bizarre prank as “beyond belief”. [/QUOTE] According to my newspaper this morning, the person involved was a sqaddie and had been drinking. That makes it not only believable, but predictable. However, I can find no trace of a 'Black Cat Thrunderbolt Rocket" on the net - but looking at the [Black Cat Rocket selection](http://www.blackcatfireworks.ltd.uk/products/?range=blackcat&class=B05), if it was one of their products he would really have toasted his starfish quite throughly. ---
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/12 "2006-11-09T16:44:48Z")
[QUOTE=slaphead] Thrunderbolt [/QUOTE] Thunderbolt - I spelt it correctly in my search and everything… ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/13 "2006-11-09T17:14:28Z")
The thread title raises a question. If a firework up your backside backfires… which direction does it go? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/14 "2006-11-09T17:21:59Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] The thread title raises a question. If a firework up your backside backfires… which direction does it go? [/QUOTE] Back. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/15 "2006-11-09T17:27:34Z")
[QUOTE=Rico] Back. [/QUOTE] …and to the left? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/16 "2006-11-09T17:36:33Z")
I just don’t get this. Surely the moron wasn’t stupid enough to point the business end of the rocket up his arse and then light it, I mean everyone knows you put the stick in first 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/17 "2006-11-09T17:40:36Z")
Only 22 and already a stick in the mud. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/18 "2006-11-09T17:58:22Z")
I knew I’d seen this story in the free paper this morning. And yes - it said “See the full video on our website”. How could you resist? [‘Bumfire’ night display goes wrong](http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=24454&in_page_id=34) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/19 "2006-11-09T18:01:19Z")
[QUOTE=Squink] “scorched colon” 😃 [/QUOTE] Band Name! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/20 "2006-11-09T18:02:04Z")
You have to love the hierarchy of news stories down the right hand side of that page. > [@](#): > > **Afternoon news bulletin| Thu, Nov 09 2006** - Interest rates rise and at Buckingham Palace, Changing of the Guard goes all Bond > > \*\*Morning news bulletin| Thu, Nov 09 2006 \*\* - George Bush takes the blame for Republicans defeat in mid-term elections > > \*\*‘Bumfire night’ explosion| Wed, Nov 9 2006 \*\* - Man sticks a firework up his bottom. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705.md?page=2)