OT: Alligators Are Sensitive
CALAIS, Maine (AP) — A 22-year-old man who was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, killing him instantly, authorities said Sunday.
Devon Staples and his friends had been drinking and setting off fireworks Saturday night in the backyard of a friend's home in eastern Maine, said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety.
Staples, 22, of Calais, a small city on the Canadian border, placed a reloadable fireworks mortar tube on his head and told his friends he was going to light it, McCausland said. But his friends urged him to stop.
"Apparently, he thought that was a great idea," McCausland said. "His friends they thought dissuaded him from doing it, and the next thing they knew, he ignited the fireworks and he was killed instantly."
Staples's brother Cody told the Daily News of New York that he was a few feet away when his brother lit the firework and was the first to come to his side after it exploded.
"There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there," said 25-year-old Cody Staples, who called it an accident.
"Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh," he said.
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It's called a MORTAR for a reason dipshit!
the kind of person to do something stupid." Interesting comment, when the evidence to the contrary is laying right in front of you.
It's a tragic loss of life for senseless reasons. No doubt about it.
I'll say this, though. The young man most definitely did not die of lung cancer and I, for one, applaud his decision to continue smoking cigarettes.
I guess he watched one too many movies....
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is dying doing something stupid. Like those people that run themselves over with their own cars. My family and friends would spend my entire funeral making fun of my stupidity.
I'd rather have cancer.
Without sounding too insensitive, I'm struggling to feel bad for this guy at all. Sign warning of the danger, verbal warning of danger, then declaring "F*ck the alligators" as you leap in? That is impressively stupid.
Thanks for making the human race stronger bro.
Seem to not fear Gators.
While he was obviously a fool he did make the best "everyone should cary a gun and we'd all be safer" argument I've ever heard before he went:
Woodward pleaded for help “somebody shoot this thing! It’s eating me!”
It's kind of incredible that among several witnesses in Texas that nobody had a gun or wasn't willing to use it!
The only question is what would've gotten him first that way, the gator or the gun?
Also, not to be too harsh on the guy or anything, but I didn't hear an apology in there anywhere, maybe he should've started there when he realized his error?
In all seriousness though that's got to be one of most incredible things a human being has ever said! Being eaten by an alligator and still being alive and fully aware of what's happening to you and talking about to someone as it's happening? It's fucking unbelievable that it happened and unbelievable to have gone through regardless of how predictable it might have been! What must he have been thinking and feeling in those last moments? Jesus fucking Christ!
and his human friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHhZGa2KvXE
It's short version of a full documentary - it is a cool watch. Best quote of the thing is when the dude explains his friendship with Pocho the croc made his first wife leave, "I can find another wife, I can't find another Pocho"