In celebration of America’s birthday, here are some compilations of fireworks gone wrong (some repetition):
There’s a special place in my heart for the 2012 San Diego display where they accidentally fired everything up at once:
And finally: Fireworks factory explosions:
Let’s be careful out there. At least wear some eye protection…
About Lawrence Person
Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His political work has appeared in National Review, Reason, The Freeman, Liberty and The World & I. His SF has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis.
Here’s a great one – someone flew a drone through an actual fireworks display in progress. Fantastic video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9KZ3jgbbmI
… from the description:
“Flying through a firework show with a DJI Phantom 2 and filming it with a GoPro Hero 3 silver. The quad was not damaged.”