The headline says it all:

South Carolina Man Killed By Exploding Firework Mounted On His Head

Accounts say he was “showing off” to entertain his neighbors. Yeah, I know my neighbors would get a kick out of seeing me blow up my head.

Allen Ray McGrew, a 41-year-old father, died instantly when the ignited fireworks he placed on top of his Uncle Sam hat during a neighborhood Fourth of July block party went off. “He was holding this firework over his top hat,” the wife said. “I thought he was just showboating before he set it on the ground. I didn’t realize he had already lit it.” Alcohol was reportedly involved and “may have impaired his judgment,” the New York Post sagely hypothesized.

Further observations:

• I wonder if he thought Joe Biden’s debate performance was because of his stutter and cold?
• Is it just me, or is it almost impossible not to laugh about this story?
• Some cases of life incompetence and irresponsible conduct carry their own “condign justice.”
• The guy may have been lucky. I regard putting lit fireworks on your head signature significance: doing it just once is overwhelming evidence that you are an idiot. True, you probably can only do it once. But he was lucky that he made it to 41. Imagine all the other really reckless and stupid things he must have tried before this stunt made him another statistic in the Darwin Awards