TX: Firework on head explodes into skull

[struggle4progress]

BY MIKE STUNSON
JULY 06, 2022 2:08 PM

... A 43-year-old man lit a firework on top of his head, resulting in his near-sudden death ... from severe head trauma ....

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article263220458.html

Fireworks Accident in San Antonio
July 06, 2022
... Reports suggest that Ruiz had been drinking ...

[C Moon]

1. Wow. Some idiot did the same thing a few years ago.

[MiniMe]

2. Not a near sudden death, he died.

First responders found the victim was suffering from severe head trauma, with brain matter exposed from his skull, police said.

The victim, identified by the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office as 43-year-old Pablo Ruiz, died shortly after officers arrived, according to the police report.

Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article263220458.html#storylink=cpy

[Ocelot II]

3. And there we have a Darwin Award winner. Of course it's sad when someone dies,

but WTF?

[elias7]

9. And sad when someone won't be there to pick up their award

But I guess that goes without saying. But just saying…

[lastlib]

4. I guess there's stupid, and then there's Roman-candle-on-your-head stoopid.....

Paging Mr. Darwin--you wanna take another crack at that evolution brainstorm of yours?

[BigmanPigman]

5. How do we get tRump and McConnell

to try this stunt?

[SergeStorms]

12. You have to...

get Vladimir Putin to ask them (or order them) to do it, then consider it done. 🤯🤯

[BigmanPigman]

14. Damn, I was hoping to somehow get Putin to do it too.

Should they double dog dare each other?

[SergeStorms]

16. Sounds like....

a reasonable solution to me. Let me know when they're "blasting off". I don't want to miss that. Trump's head exploding into millions of pieces of orange shit would be a showstopper.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Quelle Surprise! Alcohol involved.

[LoisB]

7. I would think a 43 year-old, even drunk, would know better. Sorry for his family.

[stopdiggin]

8. sorry. last line made me snort

and now tears as coffee is cauterizing my nasal passages

[captain queeg]

10. I remember at a drunken party when I was about 20

People were shooting cans off each other’s heads with a BB gun. I even let someone do it to me, but after I turned around and faced the other way (And got mocked for it). Amazingly no one got hurt, but I wasn’t willing to gamble my eye sight even as a drunk.

[edbermac]

11. "Reports suggest that Ruiz had been drinking"

No kidding!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. Damn shame American male self-esteem has deteriorated to this level....

to where many are pulling dangerous stunts like this, buying arsenals of guns and ammo, driving loud half-chrome pickup trucks, spending hours every day with their face in a pocket telephone, and worshiping a failed criminal New York wannabe real-estate magnate.

Back in my earlier days, the local American hero was one that spent entire weekends helping needy neighbors fix a leaky roof or broken car or help mend a sick farmer's fences.....all without a word of complaint.

Bragging or showing off was looked at with scorn.

Our parents warned us about the danger of setting off even sparklers and small firecrackers.

This is sad enough to make a man want to rant.


RIP, Mr. Ruiz.......

[LeftInTX]

15. Please tell me this is him

Darn it's not!!

I found the dead guy...He's a new father

(I was hoping it would be the pinhead in the wife beater shirt)

[central scrutinizer]

20. If he's already spawned,

He’s not eligible for a Darwin Award.

[LeftInTX]

27. Think he has two kids

Looked like an OK guy, who did something stupid

The Pablo Ruiz who died is not the guy in the above pic.

It's this guy who is holding his newborn son:

[Emile]

17. Alcohol and fireworks is not a good idea!

[Raine]

18. Gosh what could possibly go wrong?!?🤯🙄 nt

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Crazy shit coming from Texas these days.

[Chainfire]

21. Maybe...But us folks in Florida can take Texas any day!

[Baitball Blogger]

25. Two states run by Republican governors. I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

There is something scrappy about Florida's local community. People come down for opportunities that usually don't pan out. And what is available are local ways of doing things, which is generally shoddy and unethical.

[Chainfire]

29. The problems are not the governors, but the voters that put them there.

Its our own damn fault.

[Baitball Blogger]

30. I haven't voted for one Republican governor or state legislator as long as I

have lived here. This place is not woke because awareness would interfere with all the small town backroom ways of circumventing the process. No one will want to give up their position in a hierarchy that intentionally pushes out people like me.

And I've done everything I can to expose that process. So, no, I won't take any responsibility for the way things are today.

[Aristus]

22. I guess he won't do THAT again...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

23. It is quite obvious that this hero did his part to thwart the zombie takeover of America.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

24. This is why Fireworks have warnings on them.

ug, terrible

Rip

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

26. Darwin

[LeftInTX]

28. Senseless, stupid and sad. From March of this year

He leaves behind a 4 month old

[Chakaconcarne]

31. Did he get it on Tik Tok?

If not.......what a dumbass.