Indiana boy, 11, dies in fireworks accident on Sunday - The only difference between a firework and a bomb is aesthetics. Respect them accordingly.

Camrynn Ray McMichael, 11, was playing outside a residence in Indiana when he was involved in a deadly firework incident

• Camrynn Ray McMichael, 11, died after an Indiana Fourth of July weekend celebration turned south on Sunday
• The boy died on the way to a local hospital after officers received a call about a 'seriously injured' child around 9.40 p.m.
• His mother Kyrra Lynn McMichael shared her grief on Facebook saying she is 'not okay'
• 'I'll never see my son again over a f****** firework. Don't ever think it can't happen to yours.'

A heartbroken Indiana mother has described how she held her 11-year-old son's broken skull in her hands after he was killed in a firework accident.

Camrynn Ray McMichael was playing with fireworks outside a home in Mt. Vernon when the incident occurred around 9.40pm on Sunday, according to police.

Officers and paramedics arrived at the scene after receiving a call about a 'seriously injured' child from a firework accident. McMichael died while being transported to a local hospital.

'I held my son's broken skull and brain in my hands last night,' his mother Kyrra Lynn, wrote on Facebook.

'That's the reality. Don't even f*****g buy those damn things! I'll never see my son again over a f*****g firework. Don't ever think it can't happen to yours. Seriously.'

Lynn changed her Facebook profile picture to her son on Monday with the caption, 'My beautiful baby!'

She shared on social media that she has received an outpouring of support after the incident, with many people bringing her food and offering kind 'words, thoughts, & prayers.'

'I want y'all to understand I don't know what to say or what I need,' she wrote. 'We all loved cam. I also want y'all to understand I have to get up, I have to make my own dinner, I have to move, cam wouldn't want & expect anything less.'

She added, 'I am not okay, but i will be, because I have to be.'

The investigation is ongoing by the Mt. Vernon Police Department, Indiana State Police, and the Posey County Coroner.

The coroner is set to perform the autopsy on Tuesday.

Lynn received an outpour of support from her community, claiming she is 'not okay'

Every year around the Fourth of July, the number of firework related injuries spike, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

There were nine reported deaths and an estimated 11,500 in relation to fireworks injuries in the U.S. last year.

There were about 15,600 more firework injuries reported the year prior, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The CPSC said the high number could have been due to firework shows being cancelled amid concerns about group gatherings.

Of the nine deaths in 2021, six were due to firework misuse and another to a mortar launch malfunction. Two others are unknown.

Adults between the ages 20 to 24 were reported to have the highest rate of firework related injuries in 2021. The most reported bodily injuries were hands and fingers - other injuries are commonly burns.


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[Bland Crumbs]

We must put an end to these assault fireworks.

 

[FarCentrist]

Kid never had a chance. If it wasn't this, it was going to be the next thing...

Is this like the cracka version of DaShawn and Deontay?

With a name like that, if he didn't die from fireworks, he'd probably die from an armed robbery gone wrong or stolen car crash etc

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

His fault for wearing a poly blend like a retard

Paintball masks and welding leathers. Wear your PPE.

Instead of going straight up it climbed like 30ft and then started pulling these incredibly tight loops,

Fuck those things. They never fly straight. I had a 8" rocket go up 15', do a 90° turn, impale itself in a round bale, explode, and ignite the bale and the grass around it. That was 20 years ago, and it's still the only firework related grass fire we've had.

 

[FFinfo]

I'm not sure how most common fireworks could actually fracture or penetrate a skull?

It's hard to find the measurements of explosive force for consumer fireworks, but titanium salutes, a fairly low-level commercial firework, will set off car alarms from 100ft in the air.

 

[Getwhatyou]

Darwin strikes again. Spose its more exciting the shooting them in schools.

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

You were holding your kid's brain in your hands because he blew himself up with a firework?
Good, lick your hands, get kuru, your offspring choices are demonstrably bad and you should feel bad.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Kids today are fucking stupid. I was setting off homemade pipe bombs in the woods behind my house, and even my hormone addled brain knew enough that these things can and will kill.

It's just bad parenting. The old man made sure I understood the dos and don'ts of fucking around with explosives when I was young. Contrast that with my idiot friend from school who picked up what he thought was a dud wite-out bomb and ended up with white streaks in his skin for two weeks. He didn't have a dad who gave a shit.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

It's just bad parenting. The old man made sure I understood the dos and don'ts of fucking around with explosives when I was young. Contrast that with my idiot friend from school who picked up what he thought was a dud wite-out bomb and ended up with white streaks in his skin for two weeks. He didn't have a dad who gave a shit.

Same thing goes for guns - my pops taught us early and made goddamned sure that we knew the four rules and proper handling procedures. Compare that to the numerous NDs where some dipshit blows their own or someone else's head off because "hur durr guns are cool".

 

[Megaton Punch]

As for this one? Either he had some really heavy artillery that he got his head in front of, or he was holding M80's against his skull. I'm not sure how most common fireworks could actually fracture or penetrate a skull? That's generally the hardest bone in your body. Was he shooting rockets up his nose?

I would be very surprised if his skull was actually split open to the point that his brains were spilling out. Even low caliber gunshot wounds directly to the brain don't generally result in your brain actually coming out of your skull, beyond the stuff that's physically pushed out by the bullet. More likely he suffered blunt force trauma which gave him a brain bleed. His retard mother probably felt some of his scalp come off and assumed it was his brain. Or she's just lying for social media attention.

In real life, your brain does a very good job of staying where it is. It's not a jelly-like substance that squirts out at the first possible opportunity like in a cartoon. It's very soft and pliable, but it stays together. If you've ever cut into a really fatty piece of meat, it's kind of like that. Soft and squishy, but requires quite a bit of force to separate.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Who posts like that on facebook after their kid dies?
Peoples obsession with social media will never make sense to me. Fuckin' attention whores, mang

 

[Jason Wynn]

Natural selection wins again. Not the fireworks fault your inbred, white trash family is too retarded to know the absolute minimum safety precautions. Cletus and Betty Sue need to stop acting like a gibsmedat nigger looking for a payout and take responsibility for your own fuck up,

 

[TurdFondler]

I would be very surprised if his skull was actually split open to the point that his brains were spilling out. Even low caliber gunshot wounds directly to the brain don't generally result in your brain actually coming out of your skull, beyond the stuff that's physically pushed out by the bullet. More likely he suffered blunt force trauma which gave him a brain bleed. His retard mother probably felt some of his scalp come off and assumed it was his brain. Or she's just lying for social media attention.

In real life, your brain does a very good job of staying where it is. It's not a jelly-like substance that squirts out at the first possible opportunity like in a cartoon. It's very soft and pliable, but it stays together. If you've ever cut into a really fatty piece of meat, it's kind of like that. Soft and squishy, but requires quite a bit of force to separate.

A kid's skull hasn't fused yet, so it's probably easier to blow a piece out.

 

[Megaton Punch]

A kid's skull hasn't fused yet, so it's probably easier to blow a piece out.

A child's skull generally finishes fusing when they're two. This kid was 11. I know his mom's name is Kyrra, but I doubt his genes are that bad.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Judging by the wording of her social media posts about it, I'm sure this always-online Karen will immediately start telling everyone to "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" in her new crusade to ban fireworks.

We already have that. TBH, I'm not even sure what's exactly banned or not, but the problem always start when retard parents allow their kids to play with something we call "Mother Rat":

It's odd that this kid got his head blown out because I mostly hear news of kids missing fingers, losing one eye or dying burned when they're too young.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

I think for an adult it only takes like 15lbs of force to break any bone in your skull

That's not even remotely correct. If it was every grecko-roman wrestler and rugby player would be dead. It takes approximately 1,100 pounds of force to fracture a human skull at its weakest points, which are located around the temples

 

[TurdFondler]

That's not even remotely correct. If it was every grecko-roman wrestler and rugby player would be dead. It takes approximately 1,100 pounds of force to fracture a human skull at its weakest points, which are located around the temples

Listen, I was told this by the range instructor at a summer camp when was 12 while we were loading air rifles. It's a core memory and I don't care if it's wrong. It feels right to me.

 

[SITHRAK!]

Kid had a stupid name and a negligent parent and now he’s dead. Get your white niggers, I got your white niggers heeeeah!

I think for an adult it only takes like 15lbs of force to break any bone in your skull.

Lolnope, occipital bone‘s pretty much the strongest bone in the body*. If you can crack that with 15lbs pressure then there’s not much hope for anyone who bumps into furniture.

* Don’t believe anyone who says it’s the femur. The length of the femur makes it far easier to break than the occipital bone.

I would be very surprised if his skull was actually split open to the point that his brains were spilling out.

For brains to fly, you either need shrapnel (which a firework wouldn’t have for obvious reasons) or a piece of the skull needs to be blasted loose with enough force to pierce the dura mater and meninges and still semi-liquefy the brain itself. You’d need a significant shockwave somewhere like the sphenoparietal suture (skull’s weakest point) and even then it‘d be hard without a blunt-object impact to boost the shockwave.

TL;DR attention whore mommy wants attention.

 

[Xarpho]

I can’t see a situation where the parents don’t get criminal charges. Either a: they let the kid do something so dangerous and so dumb that even the dumbest and most reckless rednecks will think you’re a retard, or b: it’s all a cover-up, kid was beaten to death, fireworks blamed.

Given the facts that the mom seems like a massive attention whore and shitty parent, combined with the unlikeliness of commercial fireworks causing that sort of damage, I’m going to go with the “beaten to death” theory that someone suggested.

 

[The Final Troondown]

the worst thing about mass media is turning these sort of cases into a THING
when something is a THING, people demand retarded ACTION

the real truth is these sort of events have been running for all of humanity keeping the level of retards down; a necessary and noble function. now fireworks will probably get banned, more retards will survive to make hot takes on twitter and take gender studies, and the hot air balloon that is humanity will fly ever lower with the extra ballast

literally why does there seem to be this consensus that nobody should ever ever die