Man badly injured in fireworks accident

A father of three in Racine was rushed to the hospital over the weekend when his family’s holiday fun with fireworks went terribly wrong.
Family told TMJ4’s Tahleel Mohieldin 25-year-old Justin Hayes an incident with a faulty firework left Hayes blind and his right eye, with a broken nose and third-degree burns to his fingers.
"He was bleeding everywhere,” Laurie LaFever said. “He kept screaming. I don't want to go blind. I don't want to go blind, please don't let me."
Hayes is the boyfriend of Laurie’s daughter Taylor and father to her grandchildren. Laurie said for the last six years near their home in Racine, the family has lit fireworks without incident at an annual neighborhood cookout but Saturday was different.
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[@orbscorbs]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[@williamwilson6499]

If you don’t want to go blind or lose fingers, don’t mess around with fireworks.

[@GenX7119]

How about she advocate for common sense, which obviously was lost after GenX.🤦🏾‍♂️

[@basejason]

Yes because firework injuries are such a new phenomenon... 🙄

[@oliviao2238]

This is a sad story and a cautionary tale of what can happen. Maybe he can be an advocate and talk in schools or something

[@Oir07]

Praying for the young man I hope he can recover properly

[@GenX7119]

Pray for some sense too.

[@Oir07]

@@GenX7119 yes absolutely I was listening to the story before l left work. Sounds like he was being irresponsible. About to listen again

[@roboticbigfoot3222]

I wonder why they tell people to leave fireworks to the professionals

[@georgannenelson105]

If the firework doesn't do anything at first why bend down and put your face in it? Maybe put water on it.

[@somnuswaltz5586]

Nope, that makes too much common sense and is too logical

[@Bob31415]

Exactly. Render it unexplodable. Don't try to fix it.

[@jthoen61]

If you light a firework and it's a dud, back off and leave it alone. Stupid people shouldn't have fireworks.

[@Bob31415]

And douse it with lots and lots of water.

[@somnuswaltz5586]

Sorry but absolutely zero sympathy from me. EVERY one of these firework injury videos ive seen dueing the past couple weeks has been due to user error/fucking around 🤷‍♂️

[@Landis_Grant]

Another candidate for the Charles Darwin Award

[@ldwankenobi5618]

smart.

[@juanmartinez-ej9qz]

Lmfao

[@Bob31415]

This was a very very dumb thing to do but don't laugh about it. It's not funny.

[@MsSarcasticity]

The usual suspects 😂😂😂