The Government's Horrifying New Fireworks Safety Demonstration
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Do you love watching fireworks? What about watching fireworks that blow the shit out of poor, unsuspecting mannequins? Well, have we got a treat for you.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission recently conducted their annual fireworks safety demonstration on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. And just like past safety demonstrations, it’s more hilarious than frightening. Okay, it’s a little bit frightening. We’ve cut the original video down to just the most explosive parts.
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More people in the US are injured by pencils every year than fireworks..... yeah.
PC Invictus Well no shit, Pencils are found in every household, fireworks are not. It's kinda like saying I have a higher chance of being hit by a car than being hit by a fucking camel.
PC Invictus True. Even I have gotten the occasional wood sliver injury from a pencil. On the other hand, I have yet to meet anyone who has lost a part of a hand from a pencil injury (not that it would be impossible).
*****
Blockhead act?
PC Invictus Lets not forget that more people are brought to the emergency room every year for things "accidentally" ending up inside their rectum than fireworks.
hellcat1988 Do you have hard numbers for that?
a stark warning to all people made out of paper mache...
Nathan Cunneen I know I need to be more careful
I think its styrofoam
LMFAO
And to people that live in houses that consist of a few pieces of drywall
This doesnt make me think "I shouldnt get any fireworks" as much as it makes me think "I REALLY need to get some dummies!"
Love the soundtrack.
Monxo Lopez me 2!
Monxo Lopez Play mad games tycoon and you can listen to it all the time.
1:07 when you lowkey choking the chicken in class but it blew in your face
Loool
Tronald Dump Who the fuck jerks it during class? You have to have some pretty big balls to do that.
WalrusQuake Probably a ghetto school where half the class is already jerking, even the teacher..
WalrusQuake
nah fam cant hide them big balls
Well that was another waste of my tax dollars...
TheAKBUDDHA1 Oh no. You'll never get your (1/10,000) cents back!
Yep. I sure loved that fraction of a penny.
Considering it takes 2 cents to make a penny... Yeah this is a waste.
its not about getting the money back. Its more about collectively what they spent on this, could have gone to keep a school open for a month. Or fund a persons doctors visits for a few years. Could be just put towards something good but making it better. expand transit, fund useful and profitable shit. You see? Its stupid spending thats the problem...not that they had to pay.
sure, just do something beneficial with it not pay a guy in a park to blow stuff up
This is so helpful for my family, who happen to be made of plastic mannequins
Anybody else think that they just wanted to play with fireworks and not get in trouble??
They did that on 9/11
Fuck off
Hahah
Right, because I always sit in a chair at my desk with a lit firework on it...
Looks like something a bureaucrat would do. Cheers!
I've been a bureaucrat, and yes things got so boring that I thought of this image.
if mythbusters has taught me anything, it is that we just LOVE seeing dummies/mannequins blow up
Jason piere paul did not dislike this video...surprisingly
Yeah I always hold a firework in my hand and light it rather than doing the safe thing it tells me to do.
Thanks for telling me not to blow my hand off, because I didn't know already.
wow, where can I get those kinds of fireworks?!?
My meth guy
0:41 Oh look, his head is declaring independence from the rest of his body.
Our government may not know much, but they do know comedy
I don't know why, but that one with the little girls and the sparkler cracks me up.
"Hey mommy, look! The sparkler's so pretty!"
"That's nice, honey..."
*Five minutes later*
"Hey mommy, look! I AM the sparkler!"
"That's great, Saman...wait, WHAT!?!"
That's just stupid. Blowing up a Styrofoam head doesn't communicate anything about safety. If you wanted a serious video, at least use ballistics gel. My guess is they were more interested in scare tactics than actual education.
Henry Williams dont need ballstics gel, a 46 yr old already died due to mortar shell exploding next to his head (though he was being stupid from what the article reads). It will kill you...obviously.
Henry Williams That's usually how the government works. Instead of actually educating they blow it hugely out of proportions to the point where it's comical and you can't take it seriously. Just go see the various drug commercials from the 80's and 90's.
Henry Williams It's not a serious video. Or did you not get that hint with the music?
Oh, come on! Tease me with rocket fireworks and the closest one you show in the examples is that whistler breaking an egg.
*Blue balls!*
Pedro Mateus I LOVE BALLS!
well the egg blew up
a message to the mannequins of america
I forgot I was listening to AC/DC on Spotify until the explosions from "For Those About to Rock" coincided with the fireworks. It was awesome!
I think someone just wanted an excuse to play with fireworks... Quite understandable!
There's nothing so off-putting and in a weird Twilight Zone kind of way, than to be listening to Cool Jazz while watching fake body parts getting blown away.
Frank Zappa would've been happy.
It's the music that gets me. It's so "blah," as mannequins get their eyes blown out or their heads blasted off. I'd like to say these recreations are unrealistic at best, but... well, the Internet (and dashcams from Russia!) has proven that "unrealistic" is unfortunately quite commonplace. :p
This annual release is the best thing about the 4th of July.
Oh come on. You're being a critic on *this*? Of all things, could be food, games, dancing, singing but no. You chose this.
Huh? I'm not really being critical. I'm appreciating it in my own way.
And why do you give a shit, anyway? I don't, and *I wrote it.* :p
Digishade lol fair enough.
This is so cool. How is it gonna stop anyone from using fireworks. Now I want to go out and try some of these thing on some mannequins.
The last one seems more like it is about why you shouldn't stay inside during demolitions than the dangers of fireworks.
well at least they gave the mannequin at 0:40 brown arms hahahaha
This shows exactly how dumb one could be if injured by fireworks.
Not nearly enough explosions. Very disappointed. lol
If my head was made of styrofoam, or my eggs made of raw eggs, then, yes, firework is bad to be around...
The soundtrack is wonderfully unfitting!
Thank you for this video. Now I know not to stick my fucking head inside the cake, let fireworks explode in my hand, or attach a bottle rocket to a zip line that leads into my eye. 10/10
Oh my god, same music as Cooking Fast and Fresh with West, haha.
Is that a lit M-1000 in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
My work neighbor has a glass eye from fireworks as a kid. I think the older generation lost body parts and it was a fact of life. Now the world is very safety conscious.
The best fireworks displays are professional, anyway. They are best enjoyed from across the harbor, and I don't know why anyone would bother doing that themselves.
@@maryfreebed9886 Don't males like to show off that they can make loud noises that annoy people? That would explain lawnmowers, leafblowers, motorcycles, illegally modified car exhaust systems, guys with music too loud in traffic, sports bars, shooting guns....
Videos like this breed one thing, people just before ending up in the ER saying "yea but that's made of foam , I bet no way this little thing could...."
I'm a member of an alien race, we too possess polystyrene flesh and one single, over-sized eyeball made out of what you earthlings call, chicken egg. This demonstration is extremely terrifying for us, I believe we should leave the planet immediately.
This just in, "Explosives are dangerous!" More news at 10!
Let that be a warning to all styrofoam and fiberglass people living in particle board homes.
Gee, a guide wire connected right to someone's eye (that's represented by a completely exposed egg) is a realistic example of a rocket's flight path for sure....
Also, no way that firecracker is anything still legal in the US. They've been limited to 50MG of flash for YEARS and are weak enough being loosely covered in dirt contains the entire blast now.
1:00 I don't get why you would have a giant firework on your desk and lit
Well jokes on you, I wrapped my styrofoam face and hands with raw meat to protect them!
This is the best thing I'v seen today
ank you for this truly enlightening display, because I always attach a rocket to a zip line leading straight into my friends eye when
Yeah someone’s gonna look down the barrel of an active firework🤦♂️
These are not consumer fireworks. They start off with pictures of sparklers, bottle rockets, and roman candles. Then they proceed to blow off a mannequins hand with a no longer available M-80 and somebody else's head off with a professional grade mortar. If you have to LIE to me to get a point across then what is really the truth?
The original context for some of these is injuries and deaths caused by incorporating professional-grade fireworks in personal displays and attempting to assemble fireworks.
And the lesson learned here?
If you have eggs for eyes, a styrofoam head and live in a flimsy cardboard house, you need to stay away from ANYTHING dangerous. LOL
And this is why I hear fireworks around the streets,
53s in, blows his head off and leaves the stump flaming. Cannot stop laughing.
Well, better go test these myself with live test subjects.
Any volunteers? There will be cake. I promise...
Wow! Fireworks can blow off expanded polystyrene. Huge f*cking deal.
Google image search: fireworks accidents.
Much more effectively gets the point across.
Should've used ballistic gel, like the ones seen on Deadliest Warriors.
Idk about yall but that was funny as hell
The music really helps alot.
If I had a egg for an eye, I'd make sure not to tie a zip line with a firework at the other end of it to my head.
What I learned - Don't wear plaid/flannel shirts when using fireworks.
I cant help but feel they would have got the message across better if the dummies had simulated gore.
This is more comedic than anything.
Good to know this is where our tax dollars are going
The last one looks like the guy was saying "the hell was that?! Why are my walls falling?"
This video blew my mind. ;')
You had me at the music.
Nobody is gonna sit there with fireworks like that but I see where they was going. Funny asf tho😁😁
This is supposed to make me aware of the dangers of fireworks? All it did was give me the idea to go blow up a bunch of mannequins.
You mean to tell me that it's a BAD idea to stick your face over a rocket launcher?? Well I'll be damned.
Moral of the story: if you're going to set off an aerial bomb in your house, make sure you don't live in three sheets of plywood balanced on each other. That way when you're head is blown off and your neck is on fire, the roof falling on you doesn't add insult to injury.
Funny how the back-drops all say Peru! Good public service announcement peru, teach people how to blow each other up! JK love u peru!
my cousin's fingers got blown off by a firework yesterday, he's still recovering
My godfather was throwing an M80 when I was a kid. When he had his hand next-to his head as he threw, it exploded. He became deaf in that ear and lost all of his fingers on that hand. That was the day I stopped thinking lawn fireworks are fun.
1:08 the firework scared the dummy
A few weeks back at a pgi certification class we shot a 3 inch display shell through a 1/2 inch piece of plywood... Punched clean through and continued up to about 100 ft... Never put any body part over a loaded gun.... Still a really funny video since most of the items featured were not consumer fireworks
my head is not plastic
fireworks need guideline. definitely. a guideline straight to friend's head.
That's a pretty weird instructional video for the government to put out.
Good thing that everytime we light a bottle rocket it goes right into our eyes, tied to a string right?
Dad im gonna light a bottle rocket!
Ok son get the string!
who sits down at a table at 1:05
that was pretty funny actually
Wow, that's some serious high budget shit right there ...
1:07, the puppet looks so startled
Pause at 0:00 "Warning: Shoots flaming balls with reports"
In the eternal words of my father “ if your to dumb to know to stay away from a lit firework you shouldn’t be using fireworks”
They had multiple exosives staged with the fireworks. This display was an inside job.
Just to reiterate, turning ninety degrees will not save you if your head is above exploding fireworks.
They should have shown a mannequin die of a heart attack after being surprised by a deadly champagne popper.
Thanks. Just gave me some cool ideas!
0:14 The greatest tragedy is that those stains will take FOREVER to come out.
My neighbor last Fourth of July 0:46
They didn't even use ballistics gel... What a joke.
Love the reveal of the guy in the blue shirt after the fake kids room blows up. Actually just love every second of this.
I better cancel my Styrofoam head transplant- it appears as though that with it, I will not be able to withstand a firework to the face.
What was the one that knocked down the blue walls. I
'll take three....
I was born with glass bones and paper skin. Every morning I break my legs, and every afternoon I break my arms. At night, I lie awake in agony until my heart attacks put me to sleep.
We had it all. We rode in grampa's crysler to the fireworks stand and came home with a sack of 8th stick m-80's. He'd lite em off with his lucky. Now, he'd be in jail just for having kids riding on his lap.
Remember to be safe with your bombs people. 1:01 crosses arms for seriousness.
Note to self. Don't attach a guide wire to your face then launch a large bottle rocket down the wire.
Thank god I don't put plywood over my mortar displays or watch them come out the tube anymore and I'm really glad I have eyeballs instead of eggs
Our body is not made out of plastic, please try to use artificial humans tissue.
They should hav shown when a guy leaves a lit mortar in his pocket....
That's how they made Bruce into Caitlin Jenner....
Damn, where do you get those fireworks? That m80 looked more like a quarter stick. They Hardley even sell bottle rockets anymore. I got some sparklers just like that though. And that mortar is awesome, never seen one as big as my head b4...
It happens only if u don't know how to use it
This is so cool!!! How do I get some???
Because we all hook up rocket zip lines to our friends eyes and let fireworks explode. Or put fireworks on a dinner table and let the show begin. Hmm... Seems legit, but I call this natural selection the best show on the discovery channel!
Lol wtf are these mannequins made out of 😂