Darwin Award Winner: July 4th version

[Regulator75]

Murica!

A young man who was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, fatally injuring himself, authorities said Sunday.

Devon Staples and his friends had been drinking and setting off fireworks Saturday night in the backyard of a friend's home in the small eastern Maine city of Calais, said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety. Staples, 22, of Calais, placed a fireworks mortar tube on his head and set it off, he said. The firework exploded, killing Staples instantly.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015...m-top-of-head/

[killer_carlson]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...swim/29694263/

"The female that was with him saw the alligator come from underneath the dock here in the marina and said 'hey, there's an alligator," said Orange police Capt. Robert Enmon. "And, he acknowledged it and jumped in anyway."

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

Murica!


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015...m-top-of-head/

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...tantly-6009109

It sounds like his heads may have been at least partially blown off:

He told the New York Daily Times it was a freak event and Devon had been holding a lighter which made it go off "by accident."

He said: "I was the first one who got there. There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there.

"It was a freak accident. But 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."

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...tantly-6009109

It sounds like his head may have been at least partially blown off:

Well, at least it only hurt for a moment.