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elkid
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 Posted: 03/31/04 - 14:16 Post subject: definite Darwin nominee
Man Burned After Firing Rocket Inside Car
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Shannon Kramer's plans to fire a rocket toward his girlfriend went awry when the firework ricocheted inside his car and dived between his legs, bursting in a display that burned hair and skin from his feet to his groin, police said. Kramer, 35, told The Florida Times-Union he lit a fuse on the 6-inch-rocket, but wasn't able to get it out the window of his Ford Mustang before it went off.
Seconds later, after the rocket blasted around inside the car, Kramer was burned and temporarily blinded. "I thought I was dead," he said. "I couldn't see, I couldn't hear. I went to stand up and I couldn't walk." Kramer said he suffered second-degree burns and a cut on one leg. His eyelashes and a lot of body hair are gone and an outline of his sandals is burned onto his feet.
Jacksonville police were called to the explosion about 9:30 p.m. Sunday and were told a man who had been threatening his girlfriend with a bomb had a mishap. Kramer said he was only playing a prank and was intending to fire the rocket out the window as he passed. Police referred the case to the State Attorney's Office, but prosecutors declined to charge Kramer, police spokesman Ken Jefferson said.
Kramer said the rocket, which resembled a bottle rocket, was the diameter of a golf ball. "I had a couple but this was the biggest," he said. "No more of those."
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Sahara
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Posted: 03/31/04 - 14:23 Post subject: Re: definite Darwin nominee
| elkid wrote: | ...were told a man who had been threatening his girlfriend with a bomb had a mishap. Kramer said he was only playing a prank and was intending to fire the rocket out the window as he passed. Police referred the case to the State Attorney's Office, but prosecutors declined to charge Kramer, police spokesman Ken Jefferson said.
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that's bull... and karma
hopefully edited in time to avoid the dreaded you suck at URL smiley
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ShannonG
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Posted: 03/31/04 - 14:25 Post subject:
Nothing says "I love you" like a bottle rocket fired out of a speeding car at night.
Sigh....
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TriBob
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Posted: 03/31/04 - 14:29 Post subject:
Stupid is as stupid does.
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gretriever
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Posted: 03/31/04 - 14:33 Post subject:
"Say, is that a rocket in your pocket, or are ..."
"Why, yes, it is."
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ShannonG
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Posted: 03/31/04 - 14:36 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | "Say, is that a rocket in your pocket, or are ..."
"Why, yes, it is." |
Ka-boom! 
He has an explosive personality.
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 03/31/04 - 14:41 Post subject:
The new at home 6 second castration kit.
call now while supplies last. 
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Maddies Wench
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Posted: 03/31/04 - 15:52 Post subject:
How is lighting the rocket's fuse not intending to fire it? Isn't that like pulling a trigger not intending to shoot a gun?
Either way...I'd consider a new boyfriend if I were her. For any number of reasons.
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akern
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Posted: 03/31/04 - 16:06 Post subject:
Maybe he was trying to put the spark back into their love life. 
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 03/31/04 - 18:26 Post subject:
Gotta Love my Town!!
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Posted: 03/31/04 - 19:05 Post subject:
...isn't that the kind've thing an 18 year old does?
35... wow. why would he even *have* bottle rockets...
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