Near Death Experience At Fort Busse . . . . .

Jerry Busse

Jerry Busse

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Date: July 4th, 2009

Objective: Light a few thousand dollars worth of high powered fireworks over the course of 2 -3 hours.

What Happened: A defective mortar blew out the side and fired into the monster stash of explosives!!!! :eek:

What Ensued: Garth and Josh run screaming like little school girls down the "hill of death" calling on the powers that be to save their pork!

Ron, on the other hand, who is completely pickled by this point, charges into the flames and rockets red glare with his Busse Combat beer cozy in hand and a weird, almost crazy, smile on his face! :eek: Josh yells at him, "Ron, turn away from the light". . . Ron, doesn't listen!!!

As the world around him is exploding, Ron realizes that his end is near! Being part crazy hillbilly and part thrill junky, he decides that the only logical course of action is to hold his beer out to toast his impending fate while screaming "You got nothin'!!!!. . . . Bring it Sally!!!!!". Suddenly, like a whistling freight train, Sally brings it and a mortar hits his extended beer bottle, shooting the Bud Light 20 feet into the air!!!!! He laughs. . . . his shirt catches fire, he stops laughing! He beats himself stupid and then stops, drops and rolls to safety. Ron's entire shirt front is covered in burn holes. . . . His beer cozy is toast and his bottle of Bud Light was last seen rocketing towards Indiana!!!. . . :eek: . . . . Garth and Josh on the other hand have burn marks all over the backs of their t-shirts!!!. . . . :eek:

In the end, everyone survived. . . .What more can you ask for? :D

I snapped these blurry pics from about 100 yards away from the viewing area. . . . . They would have been clearer but I was laughing pretty hard at the time!!!. . . .

Enjoy! . . . . I know we did!!!!!

Jerry :D

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Are you serious:eek: What a cool storey:D:thumbup:
Well I guess it wasn't very cool to some involved:p
Glad all is OK!
 
Dang now I really wish I lived in Ohio, was 117 yesterday in the ol' valley of the spun !!!!!!!!!!!!!:grumpy:
 
Jerry -- Better get Ron, Josh and Garth on a detail to dig out a fireworks storage bunker for next year.

Just think of the beer, cozy and t-shirts that could have been saved if you already had one on the compound. :D


Knowing those guys I can see it going down just as you described. I, myself, would have been out of the direct line of fire with you Jerry. No sense in putting good scotch at risk. ;)

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Working at Busse would be better than working at Disney!


Woo! Hoo! Fireworks, knives, guns, alcohol and the smell of Bacon!

and dont forget them Hoggettes. Hubba, hubba, they are fireworks;)

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Once a friend's younger brother's stash of fireworks caught fire in his bedroom. My friend runs to his brother's door just as his brother bursts out of it and slams it behind him. Bangs and flashes and roars emit around the edges of the door. When it gets quiet they rush in to smother any smoldering material. About an hour later after the smoke clears the family cat slinks out from under his brother's bed. The cat was never quite the same.
 
Wow, you guys and gals have ALL the fun. :grumpy:

Actually, I'm a little surprised that Old Physics had not already noted this event through the....resources....available to him, and reported it here to inquire as to your safety.
 
And we were the stupid ones, right. Those things are hot when they hit you. My poly-cotton blend armor was not working that night. I was running away to fight another day. It was really a BLAST.
 
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Next time have the video cameras set up. I want it in HD and you can include one with every purchase!
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resinguy said:
Wow, you guys and gals have ALL the fun. :grumpy:

Actually, I'm a little surprised that Old Physics had not already noted this event through the....resources....available to him, and reported it here to inquire as to your safety.
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In our defense, I must say -- we're not usually looking for artillery inside the CONUS.:eek:;)
 
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