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Can we just take a moment to appreciate his friend roasting his ass like a Christmas goose less than five seconds after he almost ended it. That's a good friend right there.
When I was in Afghanistan our team was breaching a compound that had a MASSIVE steel gate that was like 4" thick and was reinforced, the breacher said he wasn't sure how much it would take to knock the gate down, what happened next was one step before a nuclear explosion, these massive 1-ton gates literally blow 100'+ in the air and the 15-20 feet of either side of the gate walls were smoked and blew out all the windows in the compound, everyone was deaf and the explosion was seen miles away, people at near by FOBS were calling in saying they saw a 1000+ lbs VBIED go off, nope just us. I don't know how big of a charge he used but I can safely say it was 5x-10x what was needed at MAX.
10:51 that looks like a TM-57 anti tank mine with the MVZ-57 pressure fuze on top. They can have a secondary fuze screwed in the side of the main body used as an anti handling device. If the mine was laying on top of the road surface this secondary fuze would have been visible if installed. If the guys knew what they were looking at getting it off the road was not as dangerous as it may seem, although it is clearly still a danger laying in the woods and now potentially being obscured by foliage. EDIT: It was pointed out in the comments that it is more likely a TM-62 variant and after watching the whole video I concur. This would make clearing it a lot more dangerous since this type can be fitted with vibration and magnetism sensitive fuzes
And yeah, considering the amount of pressure it requires to trigger, he's pretty safe. The disposal spot tho isn't indeed, that's how you end up with random mines blowing 50yrs after the war..
As my firearm instructor once said, “there’s only one rule to fire arm safety, treat every gun as if it’s loaded, all the other rules are for idiots that can’t follow rules”
@@redactedcanceledcensored6890 The rules should even still apply during cleaning. Rule 1. Treat every firearm as if it’s loaded until you have verified and checked that it is in fact unloaded. Rule 2. Always keep your firearm pointed in a safe direction/never point your weapon at something your not willing to destroy Rule 3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your ready to fire Rule 4. Be sure of your target and what’s beyond. See the point of my original comment was, if you always treat the gun as if it’s loaded, you’ll never have an accident. Because the other rules are redundant. And lots of accidents happen during cleaning and servicing of weapons, because they assume their weapon is unloaded, when in fact, it isn’t and they end up shooting themselves or someone else. So all the rules apply even during cleaning
@@patrickhector there’s should be no difference between how you treat a loaded or an unloaded gun. Rule 1. Treat every firearm as if it’s loaded until you have verified and checked that it is in fact unloaded. Rule 2. Always keep your firearm pointed in a safe direction/never point your weapon at something your not willing to destroy Rule 3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your ready to fire Rule 4. Be sure of your target and what’s beyond. You’ll never have an accident if you always assume the gun is loaded and ready to fire. The other rules are just redundant to that point
If he trips, he'll have a chance to move the mine away in an appropriate direction. If the holds it close, he'll almost certainly land on it. It may not increase his odds much, but every little thing helps.
Learning before the mistake is called wisdom. Learning after your own mistake is called experience. Learning from others' mistakes is called education. Thank you, Professor of Gun Safety, for these entertaining and enlightening lessons in how NOT to treat guns, rockets and assorted other explosives!
@@SobeCrunkMonster depends on who the teacher is. For education, the teacher is either the one with the burn scars, or the book written by the one with those scars, or the person who has seen it happen / treated the wounds / learned the information from a similarly authoritative source - without the smell of newly-burnt flesh. Wisdom is managing to keep your hands un-burnt without experience or education.This could involve a keen understanding of heat transfer via conduction or convection and its effect on the body's skin and nervous system - or it could be just plain luck. And besides, besmirching the good name of bourbon by even comparing it to other lesser spirits? How dare you! I demand satisfaction, and will meet you on the field of honor at dawn. I'll bring the coffee and donuts, for maximum satisfaction... 😀 😎
The scary thing about that land mine is that those old big anti vehicle, anti tank mines often require a lot of pressure to set off, the idea being the designer didnt want to waste it by someone stepping on it and blowing up one person if it could have blowen up the vehicle behind him. Since those are hard to set off, you can remove em like this guy did, but for that exact reason, they often bury anti personell mines under the anti tank mine, so if someone tried to temper with it, the 2nd mine will get him.
@@Sneke-qc5xo They also used a lot of dummy anti-tank mines that weren't well hidden. So a smaller anti personell mine would take out the actual targets, people doing mine removal
"Taking the landmine for a walk": Yes. Being willing to sacrifice your life to make road travel safer for others, takes some serious cajones (notice how he was already smoking his potential "last cigarette" ?!). But ...... !! The person who truly deserved the Darwin Award was Camera Dude filming the whole walk from 8-10 feet away !!
Can't disagree, seeing as I saw several explosives during my time in the Army... yeah... but at the same time... if one of my buddies was willing to sacrifice his life I'd likely have been there too because none of us were smart enough to think about our families back in the day.
Mexican here: the guys from the celebration were from a carnival for a small town in Puebla , they were representing the soldiers who won the battle against the french back at the whole 5 de Mayo thing , curiously the mountain militia that they are dressed as never had access to any artillery, now we can see why... and this ain't the first time something like this happened... Love your content. Keep being awesome...
Another thing that concerned me was that not only did he cover the bore but he was about to flag the entire crowd. I knowi it was poor muzzle discipline all the way around, it's just amazing how much negligence was present.
@@BrandonHerrera most of the stuff people call Mexican here in the states is from puebla, like burritos, 5th of may and shit like that. My family's from Durango and they are known for eating scorpions and bugs
In the case of the Makarov discharge, the range officers decided to switch from adult safety rules to Eddie Eagle rules: "Stop. Don't touch it. Leave the room and find a grownup."
@@johnnymultipo1934 I think if you can't grasp those "rules" without hearing them you really shouldn't be touching guns. It's actually just a tiny bit of common sense those rules
I got a Darwin award story of my own to tell. When i was still a kid, some friends of mine found a box of WW2 era detonators from the attic of an old house. One of these friends decided it was a good idea to poke one of the detonators with a nail. Ended up losing half of his hand and almost lost his bollocks!
Sounds like a case where a true Darwin Award was almost in order. You just have to remove yourself from the potential breeding population. Destroying your own testicles through boneheadedness definitely qualifies. Speaking of which: 13:34 ... what the Uncle Sam *HELL?!* Did the world population all turn into brain-damaged Caligulas while my back was turned, to need such entertainment at all and find so many people willing to grant it?
@@markgallagher1790 It was on a countryside, old abandoned house. These old houses are hundreds of years old and some of them happen to be rather untouched since WW2. Those were WW2 era detonators. Wheather they were soviet or German origin remains unknown. Reason why theres many abandoned houses in the middle of nowhere, sometimes in the middle of dense forests comes partly from great deportation times under the Soviet rule. Sometimes those remote dwellings were also inhabited by partisan fighters during the war. People have found all sort of crazy war equipment over the years. Starting from ammunition caches ending with whole arsenal of weaponry.
About that landmine: it's a Soviet anti-tank mine. It doesn't have any vibration sensors, and it has too much of trigger load to be set off by human stepping on it, but that guy was lucky that there was no other "surprise" mine underneath set to blow upon relieve of load (i.e. picking that heavy ass mine above).
Anti-personnel mines are banned, In reference o the surprise mine. ALSO interesting fact. That same exact mine is used by both the russians AND ukranian armed forces. perfectly possible that guy just toseed a ukranian mine in the ditch lol.
@@MrYfrank14 this is why currently scared for the ukraine ppl, going guerrilla is only going to piss the soviets pride and the west spreading lies and poking a cornered bear is not a smart move. Hope Russia don't go full boontah. (Crazy)
3:00 The largest Tannerite I’ve shot was 30 pound, and we made sure to be about 300 yards away. At that distance the shockwave still made the camera shake
@@oz_jones it was pretty sweet. The coolest part was we were in the hills at the end of a 20 mile long valley and you could hear it echo down the valley for 30-45 seconds. I was shooting prone, and I had time to be all excited about the shot, get up, pull my earpro off, and I still heard it rumbling for at least 20 seconds
@@judgemental9253 OR PERMANANT HEARING LOSSSS and talkin with their hands now makin peeps think they tossing up GANG SIGNS!!! sigh.... (SIGN LANGUAGE I WAS REFERRING TO!!!!)
That mine clip reminded me of a story that my grandfather told me from his time in Vietnam. He worked at a fob, mostly driving trucks and building bridges and stuff. But sometimes, he would go out and essentially mark minefields for removal, which they did quite often. There was a lieutenant that was ordered to show a bunch of the new ship-ins the process of covering the mines with the little marking grates. However, instead of using a dummy mine, he used a live M16 Bouncing Betty AP mine. The mine went off and killed the lieutenant, as well as the dozen or so recruits that were right around the mine at the time. My grandfather had told his buddy that he would see him at dinner, then minutes later, when he heard the explosion, he went to see what happened. His buddy died in his arms.
I know it's along time ago, but my condolences to your grandfather. He lost a friend through no fault of their own and he couldn't tare a strip off of the ass whose fault it was.
I saw an E6 nearly kill 3 people with the backblast off a rocket simulator, and by not paying attention on the rifle range (3 separate events over 2 days time). The same idiot E6 (who was in charge of the motorpool) didn't even know his job as a wheel vehicle mechanic well enough to know there is no carburetor on a diesel engine. I even had a 5.56 round graze off my K pot by another diversity hire who didn't belong in the military. These are the same kind of fool as your story's LT who gets people killed for no good reason in the military today. The military needs to be removed from the agendas of politicians who cause these walking safety hazards to be forcibly promoted over viable candidates for the military. Incompetence in the military costs lives. That is why I am so against artificial promotion of undeserving personnel based off of some Leftist politician's political, racial, or sexual agenda. And I saw far too much of it while I served.
The guy moving the land mine DESERVES A DAMN MEDAL. Cause it's untelling how many lives he saved by risking his own and moving that thing out of the road.
He deserves an Honorary Darwin Award for sure. Many landmines, yes even those made in the USSR times, have anti-handling devices built in. What that means is that they have separate fuses for when you try and fuck around with them in any way. Yes, even picking them up can set them off. They are designed to make the lives of bomb disposal units as hard as possible. So unless this guy was an off-duty EOD specialist (which I reckon he wasn't, judging by the fact he decided to smoke a cigarette when handling an explosive device) he did a bad. The thing to do when you find a landmine, is to cordon it off the best you can, mark it clearly so that no one comes near, and call the Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit (EOD), or simply the police. I know the Ukrainian bomb squad is kinda busy at the moment, but better to wait a few days than get yourself and/or your friend blown into pieces.
Brandon did in fact succeed in teaching me something. The most powerful handgun I have is a .357 Magnum. It definitely hasn’t flown out of anyone’s hand yet, but nevertheless, only loading one round in the chamber for a larger caliber with a noobie is an excellent idea. More guns will be purchased, and more noobs taken shooting. Single round never occurred to me
It can also depend on the type of revolver. Both my brother and I have a .357 revolver. Mine's a cowboy-style, metal, decent weight with good barrel length. Hard to lose control of. My brother on the other hand has a snub-nose, polymer CC style. I shoot that and I better hit it whatever I'm firing at on the first shot because the second one's most likely going into the ceiling.
I mean I never taught anyone how to operate a firearm but the 1 round rule sounds like a good idea in general. It seems like it can help people become more accustomed to loading, chambering, and unloading a gun. I was taught a little differently by my grandpa, after I memorized all the gun safety rules and could recite them from heart the first thing I was taught to do was how to safely clear most firearms.
@@magmat0585 yeah, mine’s a Rossi 971 4”. Really doesn’t kick much, but I’ve been asked to film someone, and even when you show them a proper grip, it always seems that somehow, right before pulling the trigger when they ask you if you’re recording, their grip changes and they lose control of the firearm. This exact thing happened to my wife on our first gun range date. I was recording this on a phone, and was back a bit, and didn’t see how she was gripping it. She didn’t wrap her thumb around the back of the pistol grip of my 870, and the pump isn’t grippy enough to really provide any substantial recoil control. The stock drilled her shoulder and of course the gun jumped out of her hands. I’d have to find the video but I’m pretty sure she caught the gun. Luckily, not a semi auto, so catching may not have been dangerous.
It's also a good idea to load only one round in a semiauto for a new shooter. I've had new shooters almost drop the gun (a .22) they were so startled by the blast.
You referred to the Makarov incident as a "negligent discharge." Thank You! I am sick and tired of hearing of hearing that a person had an "accidental discharge." It wasn't an accident; it was stupidity and it was negligent. Thank you for making that clear.
"now a common thing that I hear about these Darwin award videos is that they give people anxiety, like these clips stress them out" GOOD That means that you're probably responsible enough to realize how bad of an idea everything being done on here is
@@Eluderatnight or had your older brother that worked for a towing company show you the wreck he brought to the scrapyard, with the driver’s face still imprinted in the windshield glass.
exactly my thought as well. i do not know why people are so insensitive to gun safety. even the misconception of video games being violence-inducing marksman lessons should give enough wisdom that guns are dangerous in the wrong hands.
11:07 "He might be dumb, he might be brave, he might be both " _*Ukrainian Jack Sparrow has entered the chat_ : "It's remarkable how often those traits coincide."
Those are soviet anti tank mines. They are quite primitive - there are no proximity or vibration sensors, it's 100% mechanical and requires a lot of force to trigger. You can even step on it, it takes at least 200 kg to trigger. And since Ukraine has a conscription based army, most men know how to handle those things.
Had something like that tannerite explosion locally last week. Sounded like someone set off a 5 gallon bucket of the stuff, the explosion was heard clear across the county.
@@downeedles9249 tannerite isn't very destructive on buildings. Some gun shops sell it around the south and Midwest. Something like nitroglycerin, dynamite, or C4 has alot more destructive and reactive capabilities. I'm not an expert but most of it is relatively basic chemistry and easy to get information online
@@downeedles9249 The intended purpose of it was if you didn’t have steel plate targets you put a small amount behind a paper target. That way if you’re really far away the small explosion let’s you know you hit the intended target. Now because of RU-vid idiots gunna idiot.
I remember my father telling me very specifically not to stick the end of the barrel under the water to shoot at fish. You keep it an inch away or so and aim under the fish to compensate for the image refraction properties of the water.. and I very vividly remember doing exactly what he told me not to do as soon as he turned back around lol. My shoulder was bruised for weeks after that and a valuable lesson was learned 🙃.
"Going out with a cig in your mouth is probably better than..... going out with a Sig in your mouth".... damn it Brandon you totally missed that one! LOL
There is actually also a good chance that he knew what to do, as there is a mandatory military service in Ukraine, which used almost exclusively this Soviet-era equipment until recent events. But it still looks dangerous.
That poor shotgun! "Scwewy wainbow twout. A-huh-huh-huh-huh-hut!" I've seen that method and funnier ones, like dynamite. (No idiotic firing of the gun underwater, though). When invasive Asian carp began swamping the Mississippi, people quickly noticed how easily boat noise made them jump out of the water. People would entertain themselves by going out on boats with baseball bats, and taking golf swings at them when that happened.
Always learn/remember rules you forget when you've been shooting a while. Didn't even think about the putting only 1 round in because it's been so long since I've had to do this. Great video. Thanks.
I’ve always done this when bringing new shooters to the range or when newbies ask me for genetic tips. I’m no instructor, but it’s a good tip for sure one
Comment is true. IT IS always a good day when the youtuber you love posts a new video. Randhawa sahab why so salty? Heart wala like aapke comment ko nai milta hai isliye? :D
Beware of the muzzle. I personally know a gentleman who, after buying first pistol, learned this lesson the hard way. He bought a .380 pistol and discovered that the process for racking the slide to chamber the first round, does not include putting your left hand over the muzzle of the gun. Apparently, he also missed the part about keeping his finger off the trigger. Between the bullet, and the blast, he put a substantial hole through the palm of his left hand. Still has it to this day.
I wince when I break my pistol down just cause my weak azz has to put my palm over the barrel... And even though I make damn sure it's clear,still get that tingle lol
@@mikewhite3123Dang... my EDC doesn't require a hand over the barrel, but it does require a trigger pull to dismantle it. I feel super icky just touching the trigger despite knowing I quadruple checked that it's unloaded and am pointing it in a safe direction, let alone a hand over the barrel. I couldn't own a gun that does that
Definition of irony: Brandon telling us about Darwin awards while warning against explosives right after I watched the video of his homemade “pipe-gun”. It’s not just the shrapnel but also the blast wave.
The real irony is you commenting on all his Darwin videos think of getting attention when in reality your still a nobody crying for mama to feed you her Breast milk. There is a big difference in knowing something could go wrong and hiding behind a barrel full of water and shooting it with a string . Your trying to make a gotcha comment when in reality your just reaching
Brandon, thank you for these Darwin Award videos. I visited a gun range in Texas for the first time (I’m not American) and kept in mind the most heinous shit I’ve seen on this series and that helped me remember how to be safe around firearms, despite never touching an AR15 or Glock 17 before
The order of the weapon safety rules is incredibly important, which is why "Treat every weapon as if it were loaded" is number 1. And "Know your target, and what lie's beyond it" is number 5
Since the order of these rules is important, and I'm only aware of four of them, would you mind writing all five down in your reply, or perhaps linking to a list of rules in the order you advocate? You can't write this stuff down enough times in enough places for enough people.
@@Great_Wall_of_Text 1. ALWAYS treat every weapon as if it were loaded, even if you know it's not. 2. Keep your booger-hook off the bang-switch until you're absolutely ready to fire. 3.NEVER - EVER - Point a weapon at anything you don't absolutely intend to destroy. 4. Know your target, what lies beyond it, and the difference between "Cover" and "Concealment." If you have any questions or concerns, DO NOT RISK IT. 5. In the case of a failure to fire or a jam, FOR THE *LOVE OF GOD* KEEP YOUR SHIT POINTED *DOWN RANGE!*
1) Treat every gun as though it's loaded. 2) Always keep pointed in a safe direction/ never point at anything you are not willing to destroy. 3) Keep you finger off the trigger until ready to fire. 4) Know your target and what's beyond it. I guess some may break-up 4 to be two separate steps.
1 treat every weapon as if it were loaded 2. Never point your weapon at anything you do not intend to destroy. 3 keep your weapon on safe (or decocked) until you’re ready to fire 4 keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you intend to fire. 5 know your target and what lies beyond
Really love the way people further break down the golden rules. Gives me the warm fuzzies. I've taught a lot of people how to shoot over the years, and I've had to make addendums, additions, changes, etc to fit any given situation with a new shooter until I'm comfortable that they can handle a firearm without hurting anybody else. So it really makes me happy that other, smarter, people have done the same. Thanks for being awesome and taking the rules seriously. Oh, I also add two additional rules: 1. never ever give someone more than one bullet at a time until they get used to that specific firearm. And 2. Never ever give a small person a large firearm until they have worked themselves up through the calibers to it. Unfortunately, I've known more than a few people who have had stupid person discharges because they couldn't handle recoil on a firearm, which is why I made that first rule. The reason for the second is because I have known many young and immature guys who have taken their girlfriends out to shoot for the first time and given them a very large firearm, leading to the girl getting hurt or other dangerous situations.
Of course he gives good safety advice! Bit hard to get satisfied/repeat customers, if they kill themselves with the first gun + ammo they buy...... ^__^
Watch instructors. I had an instructor tell.me something along the lines of the following... When something explodes(even when controlled) and surprises you you jump. Jumping means muscles bunch. Muscles bunching means tightened grip. A tightened grip on a semi auto means another round going somewhere....and no one isn't startled the first time they fire a real gun. I never load more than one round for someone I've never shot with when we visit the range for rhe first time. Rifle pistol or shotgun, no matter how experienced they say they are. Its been great advice!
You can actually see the muzzle Shockwave getting hit by the tannerite Shockwave If you look at the gun during the slomo. It's really cool and honestly, that small disruption probably saved his lungs lol
Years ago in my hometown there was a high school theater production that required a gun shooting blanks. One of the kids was "playing around" with the gun and blanks and was apparently trying to show that the blanks couldn't harm him so he put it up to his head and pulled the trigger. The pressure killed him.
@@NOTHINBROFOROF blanks are only deadly if you're holding directly against your head or something. They don't shoot a bullet, it's literally a blank charge. As far as the laws of that time in my state it wasn't illegal to have a gun loaded with blanks in a school. This was a long time ago. But people in my hometown still talk about it.
The guy with a landmine was probably perfectly safe and he probably knew it due to mandatory military training. The mine looked like popular russian anti-armor mine used in armies all around eastern Europe since early cold war. It requires couple hundreds of kgs of pressure set off. Granted, modernized units might be equipped with "anti-fuq-around" mechanisms, but clearly this one didn't.
Most antitank mines are usually around 100 lbs if I remember correctly. I know the antipersonnel mines need about 14 lbs to trigger. Biggest things to worry about are the antitamper devices.
@@2fathomsdeeper anti armor are 300 to 500 lbs depending on the mine. Mousetraps, or anti tamper devices are pretty easy to spot. The reason for the exceptional heavy weight is to prevent "wasting" the mine on a dismounted troop. Retired Combat Engineer.
Not clearly, don’t forget made in ussr can mean some of production cost was stolen to buy vodka and hookers this may have been knowledge at work buy this guy, but it can always end as a Darwin Award.
@@firefighter1c57 It's been awhile since I read Mine and Countermine Warfare. The specs were all in there for NATO/Warsaw Pact mines. The scatterables were the scary ones! 1/2 oz on some of those. Found a AP field laid by a short round at Ft. McCoy while out hunting. Those EOD boys had a heart attack that day! Nobody knew what the destruct delay was. I was in an Engineer Group Aviation Section.
It is by no means guaranteed given that this mine came from Russia. However, in spite of all the people ragging on him and thinking this was all for a goofy vod, I can sort of understand why someone might be compelled to do this that isn't all about internet content and attention seeking. This mine was in the road yes? Perhaps he was hoping to help and prevent his own people's tanks and/or civilian vehicles from hitting it and getting blown up. Sure, perhaps you'd typically want to call in proper bomb personnel for something like this, but it's important to remember that in war, you can't always rely on help when and where you need it because personnel and resources are going to be tied up. Especially if you're on the disadvantaged, defensive end as Ukraine is. So perhaps the guy figured someone needs to get this dangerous mine out of the road before some fleeing family hits it with their minivan; may as well be him.
I served in the Royal Engineers in Denmark. Seeing someone pick up a landmine and then another guy right next to him filiming it. I have no words. These are anti tank mines. Meants to blow the tracks off tanks. Some mines have multiple detonators, allowing them to act as personel mines as well, meaning they require very little pressure to activate a single detonator. Others like you said can also react to vibration. Some react to magnetism and can delay exploding after activating, until a bit a of time has passed where nothing magnectic has been sensed. These are meant to blow up convoys of vehicles. Needless to say, if you see a mine - leave it alone and walk back the way you came.
@@KageMinowara I don't know how much pressure it takes to hit the button on top (of it has a button). Throw a big ass rock at it? Wouldn't count on it though
@@torgranael If you're close enough to throw a rock on a landmine, you are close enough to earn a darwin award. Leave disposing of them to the professionals that have EOD drones and anti-materiel rifles.
@@KageMinowara Yes you can. For mines layed out in the open, we had a .50 cal rifle for that very purpose. We used explosive ammunition for it, since most explosives require pressure and heat to go off. Not all explosives mind you. A classic example is nitroglycerin, which you could set off by just shaking it.
Wow. The man with the cannon... I'm still shaking my head in disbelief. The door explosion really lets you know how fast things go wrong. I don't have a video, explosive, or even a gun. I do have a wood lathe. I do wear a face shield. A bowl I was turning came off the lathe violently. I saw the bowl out of the corner of my eye as it rose to 10+ feet, then I saw it when it landed about 4 or 5 feet on the other side of the lathe. I didn't blink because it happened before I knew it happened. Like these videos show, it's over before you know it even started.
What I appreciate most about these videos is that you take the time to go "Here's the nuts and bolts of why this is a bad idea". Some of these situations, in the series as a whole, are not as common sense as one would think and for novice shooters like me it's a nice learning session. Also the dark humor is hillarious
Best part is that sometimes the series goes "oh wow, i didn't knew that" like the shooting with half gun on water, and than there's the guy holding the muzzle of a canon and me 06:20 am yelling "NOOOOOOOOOOOO"
The female Russian Officer with the gun on a lanyard reminds me of Jar Jar Binks. In the Naboo battle, when he had the battle droid stuck on his foot, he kept hopping around and the blaster kept going off. This is how I picture her going through the office.
i worked at a ren fair one year and during the battle pageant one of the cannons went off pre maturely and blew the ram rod up in the operator's hand. She's fine, had some burns, splinters and lacerations but made a full recovery. all that being said, when working with muzzle loaded canons, always clear your barrel before loading in more powder. you want to make sure there are no embers left in there that can ignite your new charge.
I actually got certified on Civil War cannon a while back, not a reenactor just thought it'd be cool. They were very big on never fully grasping the rammer, palms up no thumbs. Doesn't matter that you just wormed it, wet sponged, dry sponged. Never risk your hands.
There should be a medal system for the Darwin Awards: Gold: successful removal of oneself or another from the gene pool Silver: Injury to oneself or another Bronze: No injury, but situations which are otherwise dangerous (accidental/negligent discharge, near misses, etc.)
I have had a negligent discharge before but it was not my fault as the second trigger was like a hair trigger my middle finger twitch and the gun jerked up in the air as it fired both shots near simultaneously down range but did put a scare on their faces when they noticed i almost fell over from the recoil as i was not braced for something like that. Like that is probably one of the only times someone could say that a negligent discharge was purely out of anyone's control and by accident as introduce someone to a double barrel 410 if it has two triggers someone will accidently clip the second trigger with their finger as they are pulling the first one or they did pull it. It was a fun old gun too lol
3:20- Also they were very lucky as all that orange/coloured powder in the air indicates that not all of the Tannerite had the opportunity to explode as the initial one dispersed everything into the air, so that explosion could have been much more significant, lots of good, fortunate luck for these lads with a deathwish. lmao
Isn't that fairly common with tannerite, especially in significant quantities? Not that one should count on it when trying to decide on a safe distance.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 inconsistent mixing and air gaps also create issues for complete combustion with tannerite. Wouldn't surprise me if things like pellet size were a deliberate choice by the manufacturer to limit its oomph in incompetent hands.
So I do actually know the backstory to that female police officer. I've seen the whole video about what happened. Basically she was coming back in after a Patrol and checking-in her weapon. At the end of the shift when a police officer turns in their weapon they remove all the ammunition out of the magazines and places it back into the ammunition tray that they got at the beginning of their shift. She did this but for some reason was missing a single round. She didn't know where it was and was looking for it. I guess she didn't realize she racked her slide and when she picked up her pistol again and accidentally pulled the trigger it went off. So yeah very negligent on the discharge but what scares me even more is the fact she didn't know her gun was live. There wasn't just a magazine full of ammo in there it had a round in the chamber and at the end of her shift she couldn't figure out where the last one was. And they trusted her with a gun. That's terrifying Edit. It's been about 6 months or so since I saw the video but a guy in the comments brought up that she actually Racked her slide at the beginning of the full length video. Regardless though it's terrifying because she didn't realize she racked her slide.
@@brianlittleforest631 tell me about it. I mean in my personal opinion some people just are not capable of understanding how to safely use a firearm. I've trained guys at gun ranges before who will break the rules time and time again and eventually need to be taken home because they can't remember not to put their finger on the trigger or to not point the gun at somebody. How she qualified not only as a police officer but with a weapon is beyond me
I worked in explosives and blasting for seven years. What some people do with Tannerite makes me shake my head in disgust. Frankly, their level of neglect for safety blows my mind….
What we were taught to do in the military when we found a potential UXO was to take three equally long sticks and form a triangle by sticking them firmly into the ground (around the UXO) and tying the top ends together (above the UXO). This way you get a sturdy makeshift structure that is easily seen and recognized as man-made and you could relatively safely leave it there without endangering someone's life and go get help.
When I was in EMT school, we were taught that blasts come in three waves- first the pressure, then the shrapnel, and then the blast itself (depending on how close you are and how big the explosives). In a civilian setting this is important for fire department purposes, but in the military you have no fuckin idea what a roadside bomb or VBIED is gonna be made out of.
Third phase of blast injury is injury that comes from being thrown by the blast. Also depending on who you ask there’s a fourth that includes everything else (inhalation of hot air for example). Not trying to call you on it. Just sharing knowledge.
Back when I was a reenactor we used to do a safety demonstration with a cannon and a frozen turkey placed in front of the muzzle. That turkey went from frozen solid to cooked and shredded instantly.
12:18 Here in Taiwan we have a lot of cops who made themselves on the news with similar negligent discharges. What's even crazier is that most of them actually pulled the slide of their PPQ BEFORE they released the magazine, which I assume is a move called chambering a round. And it's a freaking miracle that nobody has actually got the award or get their colleagues killed yet.
this I believe is the reason most gunshops want any gun you bring in to be given over unloaded and in a case, in addition to the obvious issue of someone unholstering a gun in front of a store owner. People apparently have trouble clearing the chamber, resulting in "unloaded" guns still having a round chambered. There was one place that had a jar of random rounds on the counter from everytime someone's "unloaded" gun wasn't unloaded.
I cant remember exactly which country it was but i remember about its police getting a shipment of "new" service glocks. The problem is most of them were faulty you could fill the mag rack the slide and full fist grip under the trigger guard and just shake the pistol and it would discharge and a few of them would runaway discharge after the first round its was kindof a mess im not sure however if the caught them before or after servicing them
@@barrag3463 which is why when I go to the range, or if I do sell a firearm or take it in for maintenence it will be in the case, mag removed, slide locked back. That way there is no question if there is a round or not
Oh hey, that cannon one reminds me of a few years back at a machinegun shoot I went to. An older guy who actually was a senior staff member at the range brought a mortar out and was launching fireworks from it. As I laid down to shoot an M249 I rented, the guy had a misfire and though it was a great idea to grab the fuckin shell with his hand. It went off, and surprisingly I didnt get anything on me, which is nice considering he was in the lane next to mine. He ended up losing 3 fingers on his right hand and canned the mortar. He's still doing good, all things considered.
"Despite the loss of a few digits, he wound up being as ok as you can be." When putting one's hand over the business end of a cannon, what worse outcomes are there than losing fingers? The whole hand, I guess?
In regard to the last one, with the guy putting his hand over the muzzle of the cannon. When I was in the 'Bees, I saw a safety poster that illustrated what happened when someone used a .50BMG round to hammer out a pintle pin that was stuck... Oh yeah, it didn't look good, and it most certainly was not censored at all on the poster.
The Landmine Incident must be a Ukrainian thing. I can remember a Story the Klitschko Brothers told in a German TV Show. They supposedly found a Panzermine and brought it home, hiding it under the Bed until their Father found it and kicked their asses. So seems like a pretty normal thing for ukrainians to do.
The moment i heard "the cannon doesn't go off" i knew what was gonna happen... I don't know what he pretended to do changing the direction the cannon was pointing at, but im happy that only the idiot got hurt. Maybe someone got some"special spaghetti sauce" on the background and a large number of sessions on the psichologist though.
@@redrider7730 i have compassion, but i don't know how such ignorant people get to operate theese things, if you pull the trigger and the pistol doesn't go off, you don't look down the barrel or put your hand in front of the gun because there is risk of exactly this happening, it's unlikely but safety should always be first, so the right choice would have been to wait and not go to manipulate it inmediately. I feel sorry for him probably loosing his hand, and i do not wish harm to anyone, but that doesn't change the fact that im gonna look at this and laugh at it because cryng about someone loosing his hand whenever it happened is going to help as much as my dark joke is gonna do damage. I did go a bit far calling him an idiot though
Oh boy, the kicking the rocket bit brings back memories. We were still finding unexploded ordnance in the 80s where I live, folks would do dumb shit like that and we'd be out a building or two. Some folks experimented with leftover ammo caches with no knowledge, I certainly don't have first hand experience of what happens when you drill through the primer of a .303 round that's just in a vice. I also have no knowledge of hollow point projectiles and kinetic detonation explosives going wrong. Or weaponised celery. Or anything to do with using electrolytic capacitors as detonators. Never happened, no proof. Shrapnel scars? What makes you think it was shrapnel? Coulda been an angry chicken. Vicious little bastards. Coulda been pig related 'cos they don't fuck around either. Suffice to say I'm rather respectful of ALL explosives through what we'll call "non fatal education" in this instance.
@@alanfernandez854 The high cellulose content that makes it a non-food? Yeah, you can mix that with a few other things to make an archaic form of print film. It's totally only to do with old fashioned cinematography. Yup, nothing else...
@Kne3cap Well, you used to be able to buy potassium permanganate from the pharmacy over here. When combined with glycerine it makes an OK homemade rocket fuel. Just don't hit it with anything, it can be a little unstable.
@@MrGrimsmith damn dude, them chickens are mean little pricks. One might even say they'll fuck you up so bad it looked like a good ole' minty fuccen explosive device was bokking atcha
As a former combat engineer I have lots of experience with landmines and that one appears to be an anti-tank and not anti-personnel but that being said sometimes besides the fuse in the fuse well on the pressure plate there can be a secondary device call The Mousetrap underneath it that when lifted it will set off the device through a secondary fuse.
Had a similar incident happen at a reenactment I was participating in a couple years ago. Guy was handling a blank-fire mortar and lost several digits, either from muzzling the bore or from an overly sensitive blank round. Shit be dangerous boys.
That "unexploded rocket sticking out from a street" looks like a booster stage of a rocket or missile that fell in that specific spot. Those are literally small rocket motor with a nozzle (that is seen) and an empty fuel tank that used to have rocket fuel used to boost the actual rocket before disconnecting from the rocket to make it lighter and more aerodynamic. If so, there's no explosive material left in it. It's basically an empty fuel tank.
@@imallergictobullets Depends. One of the good things about those things is that they actually look hollow when you look inside. So you can see that it's just an empty booster stage, and you're stressed out... there are dumber ways to get stress off during a siege. Remember that these are the people who have actual unexploded missiles sticking out the same way in places. You can tell them apart because actual missiles have empennage that stabilizes them in flight. Booster stage needs no such thing, since it's discarded very early in the flight.
@@imallergictobullets Yea, he have not much idea what he is talking about... it is combustion chamber and in the same time main body of the rocket called BM-30 Smerch (Смерч). It is not a tank because tank is for liquid fuel and this is solid-propellant rocket... it is also not a booster, because the word booster is to describe the first stage of multi stage rocket/ship. Here we have empty thick main body of the sinlge stage rocked used do deliver warhead(most likely warhead with cluster munition). This is now just empty thick steel pipe that was moving super fast after it delivered its warhead and we can see only the end of it.
@@Bialy_1 Thanks for telling me the missile type. As for the rest, I recommend re-reading my comment. It's exactly what I described. EDIT: I'm not so sure you got the missile type right. I've seen those exact missiles photos of which I see on google search, and when they go down, they typically retain the empennage. This one doesn't. Obviously it could be that this is simply a broken up tail end that came apart from impact forces, but there are a lot of images and videos on google's image search and on telegram channels covering the war featuring these missiles poking out of the streets, and all of them have empennage intact. But even if you're correct about the missile type, your sole complaint is that I wasn't accurate enough in describing what this looked like in general to me. That is true. I wasn't aware of what specific MLRS rocket this was. That doesn't make my general description wrong however, just because you pretend that rocket fuel and rocket propellant are technically sorta kinda different things if you go deep into details, or that the part of the missile that boosts it to flight speed is technically not a "booster stage" if it's the only part of it. Even though it's functionally identical to a booster stage in this case, both in purpose and safety of being kicked in that it's just an empty shell with no fuel or payload left.
When I was a teenager someone let off 20lbs of ANFO packed in a steel container about 15 yards from me. Shrapnel ripped most of what was around to bits. I walked away without a scratch. To this day, none of those involved can figure out how I was uninjured. Last year, I stupidly lit a bag of workshop trash which had about half a pint of acetone which was now vapour. Huge fireball. One of my neighbours witnessed the event by and ran over expecting me to have bad burns. Not a scratch, no scorched hair, NOTHING. I am a to a loss to explain how this can be.
Brandon, the video of the doofus with the 50 lb Tannerite charge prompted me to look up just how powerful Tannerite is. The explosive velocity is between 16,000 and 22,000 FPS. In short, that shit ain't no fucking toy!!
Canned Spaghetti - --> Takes me back to my days in Vietnam. Our mess was so damn bad that we ENJOYED going out. in the jungle to hunt Charlie because we could get C-Rations! Used to be you could buy May-Day canned Spaghetti that had a can of sterno atached, use the key to open the sterno around the middle, cut top off can with your P-38 and within a few minutes you had a hot can of Spaghetti that surpassed even the best our damn cooks could whip up in that damn mess hall!
Had one of these happen on Friday. My driver from Iraq had her boyfriend shoot himself in his sleep. He was drunk and fell asleep/passed out with a gun in hand and finger on the trigger. He jolted awake at some point and shot himself through his left leg, through a testicle, and then into his right leg. Unfortunately, due to medical advances, he did not win the illustrious Darwin Award. But atleast he cut his ability to reproduce by half.
I was a ACW re-enactor for years. Every year, they would do the "chicken in front of the muzzle of a cannon" demonstration. That "12 # Napoleon Cannon destroyed those chickens, with no projectile other than the exploding black powder. Never get near the front of those cannons, ever.
