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Idiot woman ruins 4th of July for everyone

post #1 of 33
7/4/07 at 2:20pm
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http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll...5/1006/METRO01

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She had bent over to see why the first firework didn't launch. Moments later, it did.
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post #2 of 33
7/4/07 at 2:33pm
She got what she deserves, it seems.
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post #3 of 33
7/4/07 at 2:44pm
An interesting example of someone's poor judgement literally blowing up in their face.
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post #4 of 33
7/4/07 at 3:10pm
Is it wrong for me to find this hysterical? My associates at work think I'm batshit insane. Everytime I picture it I can't help to burst out laughing.

*edited for spelling
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post #5 of 33
7/4/07 at 3:13pm
This is sad news...but really, why would you lean in FRONT of it?
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post #6 of 33
7/4/07 at 3:26pm
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post #7 of 33
7/4/07 at 3:30pm
I like how her mother is like "she wouldn't buy illegal things. my daughter was a good girl." What, you think they were donated? And who the fuck has a 4th of July party on July 2nd?

So you think it went through her head like a bullet and blew up, or did it blow up in front of her face?
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post #8 of 33
7/4/07 at 3:31pm
I don't think one less imbecile in the planet will ruin the holiday for that many people.
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post #9 of 33
7/4/07 at 3:54pm
Wonder if she looked like this?



I hope she's included in the Darwin awards this year.
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post #10 of 33
7/4/07 at 4:39pm
No one could say she didn't go in a blaze of glory.
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post #11 of 33
7/4/07 at 4:42pm
Moe Howard would have just shook it off.
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post #12 of 33
7/4/07 at 4:50pm
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Originally Posted by Freedom = $1.05
No one could say she didn't go in a blaze of glory.
The firework was named Glory?
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post #13 of 33
7/4/07 at 5:41pm
27 years old, and a cashier at a car wash, same place where she died. She had three kids, all with names starting with the same damn initial (don't get me started). And she's shooting off $500 of illegal, commercial grade, fireworks, and decides to investigate why the first one didn't go off.

Gut feeling, but I'm guessing we didn't lose a Mensa candidate here.
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post #14 of 33
7/4/07 at 5:46pm
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI
The firework was named Glory?
I knew a couple of lesbians once. One was named Glory, and the other was called Margaret. But her middle name was Grace, so they were a very sitcom-y dyke couple. On paper at least.
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post #15 of 33
7/4/07 at 5:48pm
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Originally Posted by Timothy225
Gut feeling, but I'm guessing we didn't lose a Mensa candidate here.
Fuck mensa- she wasn't fit to hold Costco membership.
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post #16 of 33
7/4/07 at 5:50pm
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Originally Posted by Timothy225
She had three kids, all with names starting with the same damn initial (don't get me started).
Is that a Michigan thing? My dad is from Detroit and his insane mother gave all four of her kids names starting with D. Perhaps monogrammed clothing is really popular there.
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post #17 of 33
7/4/07 at 6:36pm
A few years ago I played fast and loose with intelligent handling of fireworks on the 4th and ended up singeing my hand. Not badly, but enough pain to give me a sleepless night. But the only thing I could think of was how close I'd come to possibly blowing some fingers off, maybe my hand, just by being a moron. The only thing that topped that was realizing that no one I knew would have, or should have, any sympathy for me. I envisioned a life of repeatedly hearing, "Way to go, you fucking idiot."

So, I have a suggestion for this woman's gravestone if the family's interested in ideas.
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post #18 of 33
7/4/07 at 6:46pm
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI
Is that a Michigan thing? My dad is from Detroit and his insane mother gave all four of her kids names starting with D. Perhaps monogrammed clothing is really popular there.
There was this family in my neighborhood (from Texas or something) when I was kid where everyone in the family (parents, grandmother, three boys) had names starting with the letter "J". Two of the boys married girls with names beginning with the letter "J", and had kids, also with the letter "J". One son married a girl named Mary or something, and he was ostracized. They also used to send Christmas letters to everyone in our neighborhood, telling us what big events their family was up to over the year ("Joe passed his medicla boards, Jason has passed his apprenticeship, John Jr. and Jessie are eagerly expecting their next child, John III if a boy, Julia if a girl..."). Shit like that makes me long for a nuclear war.
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post #19 of 33
7/4/07 at 7:07pm
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She had bent over to see why the first firework didn't launch. Moments later, it did. The explosive meant to propel 200 to 300 feet into the air struck her head, and a crowd of 30 -- including her three sons and fiance -- could do nothing as the rest of the show cascaded above.
Wasn't this in a De Palma movie?
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post #20 of 33
7/4/07 at 7:33pm
News writers need to seriously consider when it's appropriate to use the word "tragic". When a stupid person does something life-threatening, and it kills them, a different word is called for. "Justified" or "hilarious" would both be good options.
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post #21 of 33
7/4/07 at 10:01pm
Wow, i just found out i went to school with this girl, and know people who were there. Apparently it was a pretty gruesome scene.
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post #22 of 33
7/4/07 at 10:11pm
Why is she even having an autopsy?

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...707040347/1004

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Barse, whose three sons were in the Town Auto Wash parking lot when the firework blew off her face, was pronounced dead on arrival at Detroit Receiving Hospital.

Rick Baughman, one of Barse's coworkers at the car wash, recalled the gruesome scene.

"It was pretty bad; it was so far beyond," the 19-year-old said. "I was stunned. I couldn't do anything. I couldn't sleep last night."
Yeah, that's a medical mystery.
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post #23 of 33
7/4/07 at 11:02pm
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Originally Posted by innsmouthlook81
Apparently it was a pretty gruesome scene.
Probably looked something like this:
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post #24 of 33
7/4/07 at 11:11pm
From what i've heard its not too far off of from that.
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post #25 of 33
7/4/07 at 11:31pm
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Originally Posted by innsmouthlook81
From what i've heard its not too far off of from that.
Nikki Catsouras '07, then?
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post #26 of 33
7/5/07 at 8:59am
I'm dancing and singing, feel free to join in:

"We lost a moron!!


I just felt the world get lighter..."
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post #27 of 33
7/5/07 at 10:35am
The autopsy is probably to confirm just how many controlled substances were coursing through her at the time.
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post #28 of 33
7/5/07 at 11:17am
I wonder if the autopsy will reveal the war in Iraq metaphor.
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post #29 of 33
7/5/07 at 11:28am
Clearly, God needed several organs for donation.
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post #30 of 33
7/5/07 at 11:58am
This reminds me of a mishap at a "local" fireworks show I was at a few years back at a friend's house (incidentally, also in Michigan). He had rigged a launching contraption, sort of a makeshift cannon, to shoot them up over the lake behind his house. He'd used it in years past but it still wasn't anchored properly. So at one point the recoil tipped the launcher on its back, aiming it up toward the house. The thing kept going off, firing rounds right at the house and windows, until it literally looked like it was being smote by God. It was hilarious. Then to top it off, his mother had heard the ruckus (that's what she called her house being pummled with fireworks, a ruckus) and came out of the backdoor, maybe 10 feet from the firing line. We started yelling, then she started screaming and waving her hounds, then she pretty much dove back inside.

I mean really, is there any situation not made happier by gunpowder?
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post #31 of 33
7/5/07 at 12:02pm
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Originally Posted by sackley
I'm dancing and singing, feel free to join in:

"We lost a moron!!


I just felt the world get lighter..."
I would join in the dance with you, but unfortunately she managed to breed BEFORE she died.
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post #32 of 33
7/5/07 at 12:24pm
If it makes you feel better, just think about how upset her children are going to get every year at the fourth of July. While everyone else is oooh-ing and aah-ing over the pretty explosions they'll be sitting with tears in their eyes thinking of their mom's ruined face.
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post #33 of 33
7/5/07 at 12:32pm
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Originally Posted by Chris O.
I would join in the dance with you, but unfortunately she managed to breed BEFORE she died.
"Quit your rutting for a second while we figure out this foood/air deal!"
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