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Twenty-five words or less - Why Me Lord?
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Life is funny that way sometimes.
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Family Safety & Health. Spring 1986.
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Mariyln Lucas of North Las Vegas, Nev. "tried to rid her home of insects
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with just on can of bug fogger, but it didn't work. So she escalated the
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battle and set off 15 cans. Instructions for the fogger call for use of only
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two cans for an average-seize house.
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"She had just left the house to let the foggers do their job when the cloud
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of bug spray was ignited by the pilot light on a kitchen stove.
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"Said Fire Marshal Bob Mills: It literally blew the roof off the house. The
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windows were blown out, and the roof was knocked an inch out of alignment."
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Plant Toxicity and Dermatitis: A Manual for Physicians.
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"The following illustrates a non-fatal case of experimental self-
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intoxication produced by the ingestion of fruit from the Red Baneberry. The
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onset of symptoms began within 30 minutes. At first there was a most
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extraordinary pyrotechnic display of blue objects of all sizes and tints,
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circular with irregular edges; as one became interested in the spots a heavy
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weight was lowered on the top of the head and remained there, while sharp pains
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shot through the temples."
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Grove Hill Ala. 17 Jun 1973.
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Two persons were killed another critically injured, and a house demolished
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when an elderly woman fired a shot at a snake triggering the explosion of 340
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sticks of dynamite stored in a small outbuilding.
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Kincaid, W. Va. Mar. 1986.
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A man at a party popped a blasting cap into his mouth and bit down as a
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prank. The resulting explosion blew off his lips, teeth and tongue. Ouch!
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New York Times 9 Sep 1907.
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Spanks Son -- Blown Up.
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Cheboygan Mich. - Mrs. Fred Williams was severely injured and her
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seven-year old son was probable fatally hurt when a dynamite cap in boy's
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pocket hip pocket exploded while the mother was spanking him.
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The little boy had been out in the field where his father using dynamite to
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blow up stumps and had slipped one of the percussion caps in his back pocket.
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He later returned to the house where him mother called him to be punished for
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some childish misdemeanor. Mrs. Williams used a shingle as the instrument of
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punishment. The first blow exploded the cap in the boys pocket, and the
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explosion tore a large hole in his hip, from which he is believed to be dying.
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The mother lost two fingers and received a number of minor cuts about her face
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and body.
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N.Y. Daily News. 3 Jun 1986
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A topless dancers' booking agent, who crowded 560 pounds onto his 5-foot-8
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frame, was shot to death in Suffolk County when interrupted during a midnight
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spaghetti nosh.
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Investigators found $40,000 worth of illegal fireworks in his garage.
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Emergency service police used ropes and pulleys and had to remove a porch
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railing to remove his body.
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UPI WAMEGO, Kan. 7 Oct 1985
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"Charles E. Lowry, 24, was in critical condition Monday at the U of Kansas
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Medical Center. His arms were so severely burned and ravaged that they had to
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be amputated below the elbows. The blast also burned his face and chest.
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"The Kansas City ATF regional office said that Lowry apparently was holding a
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two-pound container of a highly volatile substance believed to be flash powder
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just prior to the explosion.
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"Flash powder, [the ATF] said, often is used commercially to make fireworks
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and is so powerful that a handful can blow off a person's hand. Another ATF
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agent said two pounds of flash powder is about as powerful as seven or eight
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sticks of dynamite.
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"It was just one big boom, said a neighbor who lives two houses away. One
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side of the house was blown clear out. It stripped the plasterboard off the
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walls on the inside.
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"Another neighbor reported the explosion knocked the front windows out of the
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house and shifted it 2- to 3-feet off its foundation."
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Bureau of Explosives. June 7, 1916.
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SPECIAL FIREWORKS (TOY TORPEDOES). -- A stevedore was placing a box
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containing "Mammoth Thunderbolt" brand of toy torpedoes on the floor of a car,
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and as he turned the box over and lowered it a distance of about one foot, the
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contents exploded. His arm was shocked by the explosion, but as it was not of
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a violent character he was not injured. Loss, $1.20.
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UPI San Jacinto Battleground TX. 22 May 1986.
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"Texans whooped through the Lone Star state's 150th birthday in grand style,
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capping a two-day party with a fireworks display choreographed to music seen
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and heard state-wide.
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"From space, the display was expected to form a huge star that was to be
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photographed by a NASA weather satellite." FORSOOTH!!!
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The New England Journal of Medicine 16 October 1986.
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Trangivgival Nitrate Syncope
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An 81 year old woman while brushing her teeth suddenly experienced
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"lightheadedness, a graying of vision, and then loss of consciousness. She
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regained consciousness within three to five minutes and called to her husband
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for assistance. When she was helped to her feet, she noted lightheadedness and
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a new throbbing bitemporal headache; both of which abated within 20 to 30
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minutes."
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"The patient's husband that he had found his tube of transdermal
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nitroglycerin ointment open on the bathroom sink when she discovered his wife
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collapsed on the bathroom floor. On closer questioning, it became apparent
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that the patient had mistaken her husbands tube of nitrate ointment for
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toothpaste and had brushed her teeth with it."
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