A Florida man had his hand blown off while he was playing with fireworks at 1 a.m. Saturday, perhaps making him the first Patriotic Holiday Amputee, Fox News reports. By the time Broward County sheriff’s deputies reached the scene, the man and his hand had been taken to a local hospital by a bystander, but it was not possible to reattached the hand.
A witness said the accident happened suddenly. “It wasn’t even like five minutes, ’cause as soon as he lights it, it exploded,” said the person, apparently surprised that a lit explosive is going to eventually, y’know, explode.