This year, he set out to make a “sparkler bomb,” a homemade device that produces a very large flame. One video shows how a sparkler bomb, and some bricks, can blow up a car. In 2010, a Missouri man lost his left hand and right eye after he tried to make a sparkler bomb in his house, police said. [The data on America’s annual tradition: injuring ourselves with fireworks]Most sparkler injuries involve hands and fingers, according to government data. Two others were also injured, and police compared the sparkler bomb to an IED, or improvised explosive device.

Source: Washington Post July 05, 2016 20:02 UTC