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Ouch...<br><br>
Nothing to see here keep it moving.<br><br>
Keep 'em Flying<br>
Rob Hommel<br><br>
At 09:28 PM 3/31/2004, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=2>In a message dated
3/31/04 9:09:33 PM Pacific Standard Time, rhommel@tacoma.net
writes:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>The <br>
best way to impress your neighbors is to fire rockets back at
them.</blockquote><br><br>
Very, very carefully........<br><br>
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Shannon Kramer's plans to fire a rocket toward
his girlfriend went awry when the firework ricocheted inside his car and
dived between his legs, bursting in a display that burned hair and skin
from his feet to his groin, police said. <br><br>
Kramer, 35, told The Florida Times-Union he lit a fuse on the
6-inch-rocket, but wasn't able to get it out the window of his Ford
Mustang before it went off. <br><br>
Seconds later, after the rocket blasted around inside the car, Kramer was
burned and temporarily blinded. <br><br>
``I thought I was dead,'' he said. ``I couldn't see, I couldn't hear. I
went to stand up and I couldn't walk.'' <br><br>
Kramer said he suffered second-degree burns and a cut on one leg. His
eyelashes and a lot of body hair are gone and an outline of his sandals
is burned onto his feet. <br><br>
Jacksonville police were called to the explosion about 9:30 p.m. Sunday
and were told a man who had been threatening his girlfriend with a bomb
had a mishap. <br><br>
Kramer said he was only playing a prank and was intending to fire the
rocket out the window as he passed. <br><br>
Police referred the case to the State Attorney's Office, but prosecutors
declined to charge Kramer, police spokesman Ken Jefferson said.
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Kramer said the rocket, which resembled a bottle rocket, was the diameter
of a golf ball. <br><br>
``I had a couple but this was the biggest,'' he said. ``No more of
those.'' </font><br>
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