A 30-year-old Connecticut woman severely injured her hand and her face when she lit a quarter stick of dynamite that she mistook for a candle after thunderstorms knocked out power Thursday night.
Police said the woman was injured around 9:20 p.m. at the family’s Lindley Street home in Bridgeport and her husband and two children were home when the horrific accident happened.
Police have investigated and said the family had intended to buy emergency lighting from Home Depot, but the store was closed, according to police.
Then, they remembered seeing something in the basement that they thought were candles. The family bought the home two years ago and the previous residents or owners had left them behind, according to police.
When the mother tried to light one of the devices, she suffered extreme injuries to one of her hands and might have lost several fingers, police said. She also suffered serious facial injuries.
She was taken to Bridgeport Hospital, then transferred to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where she is being treated. No one else in the home was injured.
Investigators searched the property and found another device in the home, according to police.
The Bridgeport fire department and the Connecticut State police removed it and later detonated and disposed of it.
While it is against the law to buy dynamite or fireworks or firecrackers in Connecticut, Bridgeport police will not be pressing any charges because it appears that the residents did not know there were explosive devices in their home.
Sounds looks the couldn't see in the dark for some reason
Luis Phillips
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Isaac Johnson
Even so, the waxy feeling of a candle is completely different then the paper feeling of dynamite casing. Even if the candle were wrapped in glass or metal, it still would feel completely different. I think it is more likely the police raided the home and injured the women and then blamed the family for their own police incompetence. But then again, this is a CURRENT YEAR female we are talking about. So I don't know for sure besides it being unlikely she couldn't feel the difference between paper and wax/metal/glass in her hand.
Andrew Walker
This might come as a shock to you, but most people don't generally handle dynamite and have never even seen it outside of a loony toons short.
Kayden Ortiz
But she found the dynamite and a lighter, and lit them?
Eli Cook
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Isaac Morris
Never underestimate normalfags, user. My mother tried to get herself arrested once unwittingly because she refused to believe it was illegal for a 12 year old to carry a 6 pack of beer to the register. When normalfags decide something is another thing, only a Darwin Award will fix their thinking. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The rest of the world can have a drink at 12. You are afraid to carry even the container. If your mother asks you to pass her glass of wine at a family dinner, do SWAT burst in through your front window, or paper wall, and shoot the entire family?
That's not a quarter stick, I think thats a half stick. I still have a few dozen quarter sticks myself from over the years. I blow a couple off every 4th of July. Fun stuff, loud too.
Grayson Rivera
I had a friend who had a half stick and we once strapped it to a tree and lit it off. The tree never collapsed but it did send a shockwave through the tree trunk and made a whole branch collapse from the shock wave.
Jason Carter
Should have bored a hole into the tree and put the stick in the hole. would have destroyed the tree.
Jaxson Sanders
Is anybody going to ask why the hell the "previous owners" had a bunch of dynamite in the basement?
Ryder Cooper
May have had it many years. It didn't used to be controlled that strictly. Probably stumpin dynomite.
Anthony Adams
Burger here. Thank you, wherever you are from. I'm old enough to remember when the latest round of alcohol hysteria started in my country, about the mid 80's. That is when the drunk driving laws were changed so that a tiny bit of alcohol that would not affect you became a criminal offense, when it became criminal to to have an "open container" in a vehicle, and I'm told by someone familiar with the law that if a police officer feels like being a dick, having a six pack of wine coolers or beer, with one of the bottles/cans completely missing fromt he package, in your vehicle (say, grocery bags from the store, and one fell out or you stopped at a friends house and gave him one then continued home) is considered "an open container" and can get you jail time. Insane. Also insane is that 18 years old is fine to join the army and be dropped from an airplane into a jungle to die for ZOG, but an 18 y/o deserves jail for drinking a beer. Other insane laws: My doctor prescribes me xanax, blood pressure meds, and a couple of things. If I tkae on of each of my pills that I take mid-day and put them in a pill container to take at work, I have "transported a scheduled substance without proper labeling". 5 years for the xanax pill pill not bei9ng in its original bottle. The law applies per pill; if I dumped all 30 of my xanax in a different bottle or if the label on the original bottle got water damaged, and walked down the street with it, technically I am supposed to be sentenced to 150 years.
Dylan Bailey
And this is why a police state is NOT such a great idea. Always turns around and ruins the lives of completely innocent people.
