A while back I posted a video of a drone flying through fireworks. I was wondering why seemingly no one had done that before, but chalked it up to the possible expense of a person blowing their $1000+ drone to pieces hundreds of meters in the air. Fair enough!
I wouldn’t put my drone in harms way, and unlike Colin Furze – the man you’re about to watch – I probably wouldn’t lock myself inside of a hydroformed Tin Man outfit with fireworks strapped to every part of my body either. It just doesn’t seem like good sense, but you know… based on Colin’s previous videos, I don’t think that’s really his fortē anyway. So on that note, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to get blasted with fireworks, wonder no more.
I admit, it does look pretty fun. It’s also not the most dangerous use of fireworks when it comes right down to it. You see, when I was a teenager, people used to soak their clothes with water and blast fireworks at each other. No goggles, no flimsy metal armor, just cloth, skin, and what I imagine was a whole lot of burning. Pretty stupid, right? I’ve got worse.
I went to school with a fellow who we’ll call Peter, because that’s his name and he’s probably in jail now anyway. So one day he decides it’s a good idea to drill out the top of a compressed air cartridge, the kind you use for air rifles, and fill that sucker with some sort of scavenged gun powder. Probably not such a smart idea, but to really step things up he decided to light said contraption and throw it.
Peter wasn’t at school for quite a while after that, and when he finally returned we found out why: he had blown all his fingers, save for his thumb, off of his right hand. He was paraded around our school to show off the dangers of being such an idiot. I’ll tell you one thing, I never even thought about throwing fireworks after that.
So the moral of the story is don’t try this at home, and if you do and hurt yourself, don’t come crying to me.
