Man Blows leg off with “Fireworks”

[displayfireworks1]

If you listen close you will hear them describe a candy stripe tube. If you ever saw those large bootleg firecrackers that someone is selling you know exactly what it is. If make and sell these large ground salutes and someone gets hurt you can probably be criminally charged.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNnR2EMwAtw&feature=related

[Northern Sky]

People will never cease to amaze me.

Why does the media refer everything as fireworks when this is obviously explosives.

No 1.4g firework is capable of that kind of destruction.

[nitro25]

Only in Detroit!!!

[Starxplor]

The police/local governments are trying to get people upset about this so they pester the state government. They do not want anything legal, and will lie to the people and the media to make a fuss about it.
The local city police even lied to one of my parents claiming "ALL fireworks are now legal, even the house rattling ones."