# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/21 "2006-11-09T20:36:19Z")
There once was a man from Rangoon who tried to fart his way to the moon. He failed as a rocket, shat in his pocket, and died in a rectal typhoon. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/22 "2006-11-09T20:44:31Z")
Great comments from Fark: “Now he has a semi-colon.” and “I’ll bet he regrets that he has only one asterisk…” and “Now, stay tuned for this message from Colon Blow.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/23 "2006-11-09T20:48:17Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] Now there’s some rocket science even a butthole can grasp. [/QUOTE] Its just too bad they didn’t tattoo [this](http://www.alyon.org/generale/theatre/cinema/affiches_cinema/r/rev-roo/rocketeer.jpg) on his butt cheeks while he was under anesthesia. 😉 ---
**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, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/24 "2006-11-09T21:15:27Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] Its just too bad they didn’t tattoo [this](http://www.alyon.org/generale/theatre/cinema/affiches_cinema/r/rev-roo/rocketeer.jpg) on his butt cheeks while he was under anesthesia. 😉 [/QUOTE] true, but he will go through life known as **The Rocketrear** Si ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/25 "2006-11-09T22:24:34Z")
He took a rocket to the moon. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/26 "2006-11-09T22:58:49Z")
More proof that as the world’s population increases, the total intelligence remains constant. Seriously, the mind boggles at this guy’s thought process. How does one manage to travel so twisted a path of logic that one reaches the conclusion “explosive+rectum=good idea”? Things that go boom do not belong in the body as they are in the process of going boom. ---
**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, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/27 "2006-11-09T23:27:54Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo] More proof that as the world’s population increases, the total intelligence remains constant. Seriously, the mind boggles at this guy’s thought process. How does one manage to travel so twisted a path of logic that one reaches the conclusion “explosive+rectum=good idea”? Things that go boom do not belong in the body as they are in the process of going boom. [/QUOTE] Sadly, playing with fireworks in ways that can only be classified as weapons-grade dumb is not very uncommon. I’ve seen vids of kids doing the moon rockets, lighting them in their mouth(!), having friends shoot fireball crackers at them – while wearing only underwear and a helmet, and other such acts of clinical brain damage. ---
**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, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/28 "2006-11-09T23:35:16Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo] How does one manage to travel so twisted a path of logic that one reaches the conclusion “explosive+rectum=good idea”? [/QUOTE] rectum… \ …damn near killed him (sadly, too true) Si ---
**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 10, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/29 "2006-11-10T00:39:57Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] Sadly, playing with fireworks in ways that can only be classified as weapons-grade dumb is not very uncommon. I’ve seen vids of kids doing the moon rockets, lighting them in their mouth(!), having friends shoot fireball crackers at them – while wearing only underwear and a helmet, and other such acts of clinical brain damage. [/QUOTE] As a not-quite-hijack ( it’s still about Dumb People Playing With Explosives ), you’ve reminded me of one of my favorite [Darwin Awards](http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-07.html) : > [@](#): > > Three friends recently spent an evening sharing drinks and exchanging insults at a local cafe in the southeastern province of Svay Rieng. Their companionable arguing continued for hours, until one man pulled out a 25-year-old unexploded anti-tank mine found in his backyard. > > He tossed it under the table, and the three men began playing Russian roulette, each tossing down a drink and then stamping on the mine. The other villagers fled in terror. > > Minutes later, the explosive detonated with a tremendous boom, killing the three men in the bar. “Their wives could not even find their flesh because the blast destroyed everything,” the Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper reported. Like I said; there’s _nothing_ so stupid that someone won’t do it. Or even several someones at once. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/30 "2006-11-10T02:22:48Z")
Yep, he ain’t the first, and probably won’t be the last. > **[2003 Darwin Award: Unsafe and Insane](https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2003-19.html)** > > Darwin Award: Unsafe and Insane: Mothers often warn that firecrackers can blow your hand off, but as a 26-year-old Australian learned, they can also remove your gonads from the gene pool. An ambulance rushed to an Illawarra park, after receiving > [@darwin](#): > > (2003, Australia) Parents often warn that firecrackers can blow your hand off, but as a 26-year-old Australian learned, they can also remove your gonads from the gene pool. An ambulance rushed to an Illawarra park after receiving reports that a man was hemorrhaging from his behind. The mercifully unidentified man had placed a lit firecracker between the cheeks of his buttocks, stumbled, and fell upon it. > > … > > Emergency surgeon Dr. McCurdie said the resulting wound looked like “a war injury.” The explosion was forced upward, “blasted a great hole in the pelvis, ruptured the urethra, and injured muscles,” rendering the man incontinent as well as sexually dysfunctional. He survived to tell the tale, making him eligible for the dubious honor of a Living Darwin Award. ---
**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 10, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/31 "2006-11-10T03:24:00Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] As a not-quite-hijack ( it’s still about Dumb People Playing With Explosives ), you’ve reminded me of one of my favorite [Darwin Awards](http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-07.html) : Like I said; there’s _nothing_ so stupid that someone won’t do it. Or even several someones at once. [/QUOTE] Indeed; that reminded me of the other Darwin entry about a man, a party, and his [blasting cap](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/darwin03.asp) (2nd runner up). And almost simultaneous to Butt Bomb guy was [this unfortunate prankster](http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1655082006) who wanted to scare his cow-orkers with a firecracker but counted a few too many mississippis. > [@](#): > > The man is understood to have been attempting to scare colleagues at the city’s Seafield cleansing depot but failed to let go of the firework before it exploded. > […] > A Lothian and Borders Police spokesman said the injured man lost three fingers and a thumb in the accident. Not Darwin material, and not quite as dumb, but still stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/32 "2006-11-10T03:31:22Z")
“Oh. You said blow _IT_ out your ass. My mistake.” ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/33 "2006-11-10T16:04:27Z")
To continue the theme… Probably NSFW [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA4un0I0k-E) ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705/34 "2006-11-10T22:30:57Z")
Brings new meaning to the phrase, “blow it out your ass …” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backside-firework-prank-backfires/379705.md?page=1)