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Author Topic: Friend injured in explosion Rich 2,000th post PAKMAN Member # 112 posted August 26, 2008 10:29 AM                       My friend Mert is in the Trauma center at Creighton hospital in Omaha. He was looking for something in a large cabinet. He pulled out a box that contained old fire crackers, and set it on the floor. As he turned back toward the cabinet, the fireworks exploded. Force of the explosion blew holes in Mert's leather shoes, his legs look like someone shot him several times with a shotgun, and I don't know anything more about his injuries yet. The explosion blew the front door of his house open, and bowed the metal overhead garage door. Law enforcement officials are investigating the incident. [ August 26, 2008, 10:29 AM: Message edited by: Rich ] -------------------- If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder. Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Randy Roede "It's Roede, like in Yotie Member # 1273 posted August 26, 2008 05:36 PM                    Jesus Rich, hope there are no longterm injuries, wierd deal!!! Ya never know!! -------------------- The only person dumber than the village idiot is the person who argues with him! Posts: 669 | From: Pierre SD | Registered: Mar 2007  |  IP: Logged Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted August 26, 2008 05:36 PM                       Sorry to hear about your friend, Rich. Do they know why the fireworks went off? Old and unstable? I keep the kids' stuff that's left over each July 4 in the garage where it can get pretty cold and pretty warm. Maybe that's a bad idea. -------------------- I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Posts: 5440 | From: The gun-lovin', gun-friendly wild, wild west | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged 3 Toes El Guapo Member # 1327 posted August 26, 2008 06:07 PM                   Mert Barquist (sp) ? Dang sorry to hear it Rich. I talk to him on the phone once in a while when he is out here hunting chucks in the summer. I never have got together with him, but he always stops and sees some friends in Kaycee. -------------------- Violence may not be the best option.... But it is still an option. Posts: 1034 | From: out yonder | Registered: Apr 2007  |  IP: Logged Rich 2,000th post PAKMAN Member # 112 posted August 26, 2008 07:06 PM                       3 Toes, Mert Bargenquast, yes. I knew he had been calling you on the phone, and has been wanting to meet you. The accident happened yesterday. Must have been while his wife was at work, because he was home alone when it happened. The fireworks were probably over twenty years old. I learned in bomb school that the flash powder in fireworks is very unstable. When I hear more about his condition I will post it here. They have him drugged down pretty good I think. He didn't know which hospital he was in when he called me this morning. He just wanted to get out of there. -------------------- If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder. Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Rich 2,000th post PAKMAN Member # 112 posted August 28, 2008 02:09 PM                       Mert is back home now, and is taking antibiotics to ward off possible infection in his wounds. He has quite a lot of shrapnel in his legs, which is probably from various items that blew out of the cabinet. He said that he will have his wife E mail some photos to me. If he does, I will post a couple for you guys. -------------------- If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder. Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Rich 2,000th post PAKMAN Member # 112 posted September 08, 2008 05:55 AM                       -------------------- If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder. Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted September 08, 2008 11:33 AM                       That's gonna leave a mark... Glad to hear he's doing better. Makes ya think, doesn't it? -------------------- I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Posts: 5440 | From: The gun-lovin', gun-friendly wild, wild west | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged rainshadow1 Knows what it's all about Member # 899 posted September 08, 2008 02:35 PM                       Hurts just lookin' at it!!! I've never stored fireworks... definatley not going to now! -------------------- - - Steve RainShadow Game Calls & Custom Knives Cougar E-Sound Library, Hand Calls, & Call-In Story Library. www.rain-shadow.com Posts: 152 | From: NW Washington | Registered: Jul 2006  |  IP: Logged CindyTraps Knows what it's all about Member # 1893 posted September 08, 2008 02:40 PM                    Wow, That is crazy, glad to hear he is going to be okay. -------------------- Happy Trails Posts: 113 | From: Seligman, Arizona | Registered: Oct 2007  |  IP: Logged Paul Melching Radical Operator Forum "You won't get past the front gate" Member # 885 posted September 08, 2008 02:54 PM                   Wow! Rich thats gotta be the worst case of chiggers I've ever seen. just kiddin glad he's okay,Im gettin rid of my old fireworks today! Paul (Edited to say )anyone want my old fireworks [ September 08, 2008, 02:56 PM: Message edited by: Paul Melching ] -------------------- Those who value security over liberty soon will have neither ! Posts: 4188 | From: The forest ! north of the dez. | Registered: Jul 2006  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted September 08, 2008 03:03 PM                       I'd like a logical explanation. Anybody? Static electricity? Spark from staples or nails in the box? The whole nine yards, all at once? I don't get it? Good hunting. LB edit: did he have some other bulk black powder in there? Did he drop it? [ September 08, 2008, 03:04 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ] -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 32385 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Crow Woman Knows what it's all about Member # 157 posted September 08, 2008 03:05 PM                    Dang... That's just nasty looking! He's in my prayers! -------------------- Sheri L Baity Lord, Please give me peace, because if you give me strength, I might beat someone to death! Posts: 720 | From: Covington | Registered: Mar 2003  |  IP: Logged Locohead World Famous Smoke Dancer Member # 15 posted September 08, 2008 04:24 PM                    I'm with Leonard, there had to be some kind of catalyst. What happened? Wierd stuff! Oh yeah, glad he's okay too! -------------------- I love my critters and chick!!!! :) Posts: 2219 | From: CO | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Rich 2,000th post PAKMAN Member # 112 posted September 08, 2008 04:48 PM                       The fire marshall thinks that static electricity set it off. I had lunch with Mert today, and he remembers hearing a sort of "snap" sound just before the explosion. He showed me a piece of the steel cabinet he was cleaning out, and it was just a twisted triangular piece of steel. The man is lucky to be alive. Several folks around there are getting rid of their old fireworks now. I reckon that would be a good idea. -------------------- If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder. Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Rich 2,000th post PAKMAN Member # 112 posted September 08, 2008 04:55 PM                       Mert's entire body looks like a mess, but I couldn't convince him to drop his pants in the KFC parking lot today. I don't think anyone on this board is gonna believe that his private parts are black and blue unless we see a good photo of them. Am I correct? Here is a photo of one of his arms. -------------------- If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder. Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged MULE Knows what it's all about Member # 63 posted September 08, 2008 05:04 PM                   OUCH!!! And this came from old fireworks falling out of a cabinet??? What kind of fireworks?? -------------------- Kickin' it on the Steppes. Livin' in my Yurt My Hockey Mom can beat up your Community Organizer Posts: 334 | From: Ulan Bator | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Rich 2,000th post PAKMAN Member # 112 posted September 08, 2008 06:53 PM                       Mule, It was old firecrackers that were being stored in a cardboard box. Mert had taken the box out of the metal cabinet and sat it on the floor. As he turned around toward the cabinet again, the firecrackers exploded. -------------------- If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder. Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Kokopelli SENIOR DISCOUNT & Dispenser of Sage Advice Member # 633 posted September 08, 2008 07:09 PM                      '.......old firecrackers' Are we talking LadyFingers & BlackCats or Cherry Bombs & M-80s?? -------------------- And lo, the Light of the Trump shown upon the Darkness and the Darkness could not comprehend it. Posts: 8238 | From: Under a wandering star | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged CrossJ SECOND PLACE: PAUL RYAN Look-a-like contest Member # 884 posted September 08, 2008 07:32 PM                    Some of the old fireworks(m80's etc) actually contained TNT. TNT becomes very unstable with time. The nitrates can 'sweat' from the initial compound and are very easily ignited (static shock). It sounds to me as if this was the case, because there seemed to be one big blast. Todays modern fireworks would have detonated in more of a chain, leaving some unignited. Anyway, thats how it was explained to me by the guy who taught me to 'shoot' holes. -------------------- A friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a body. Posts: 1025 | From: on a water tower | Registered: Jul 2006  |  IP: Logged Semp GOLD STAR MEMBER Member # 3074 posted September 09, 2008 04:24 AM                   Sorry to hear about your friend, Rich. Glad he is still alive. Could have been much worse. Old dynamite can sweat out its nitroglycerin and become unstable. I don't know if that component is in firecrackers or not. -------------------- Always remember: That court appointed psychiatrist is not your friend. Posts: 420 | From: Kentucky | Registered: Aug 2008  |  IP: Logged Rich 2,000th post PAKMAN Member # 112 posted September 09, 2008 04:54 AM                       Kokopelli, That stuff had been stored for twenty years or more. Poor Mert surely isn't expected to remember how many of each firecracker size he had stuffed in there. There were some old firecrackers in there that went BOOM, he knows that for sure. -------------------- If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder. Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Paul Melching Radical Operator Forum "You won't get past the front gate" Member # 885 posted September 09, 2008 04:57 AM                   I am fairly certain that the older m-80's were actually dynamite. At least thats what I was always told. That could explain the nitro. Any munitions experts out there. -------------------- Those who value security over liberty soon will have neither ! Posts: 4188 | From: The forest ! north of the dez. | Registered: Jul 2006  |  IP: Logged Kokopelli SENIOR DISCOUNT & Dispenser of Sage Advice Member # 633 posted September 09, 2008 05:49 AM                      I've also heard the M-80 / nitro connection, hence my question. Glad he's going to be ok. 'Course it could have been worse.....kids could have found that box!! -------------------- And lo, the Light of the Trump shown upon the Darkness and the Darkness could not comprehend it. Posts: 8238 | From: Under a wandering star | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged Rich 2,000th post PAKMAN Member # 112 posted September 09, 2008 08:35 AM                       "I've also heard the M-80 / nitro connection, hence my question." ----------------------------------- There very well could have been some M80's in that box. I know there would have been if it was me buying the firecrackers. The bigger the better was my motto in my young and stupid days. I have moved most of my gun powder, primers and loaded ammo out of my outdoor shop and into a cabinet in my air conditioned basement. -------------------- If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder. Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged

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