Because important scientific experiments take many different forms, this is a video of Youtuber HaerteRest packing a toilet bowl (and every other hole he could find) full with over 1,000 sparklers, then taking the toilet to the great outdoors to see what will happen when they’re all lit. SPOILER: it

This is a video of a couple firework sorting machines doing their thing. Their thing being sorting fireworks, in case you couldn’t tell from the obvious context clues. Being a detective isn’t for everyone, you know. Just look at all those firecrackers! It’s pretty crazy to think of just how

Presumably to celebrate my birthday over the weekend, this is a video of an elderly woman having her first hands-on experience with a Roman candle. She appears to be continually shocked whenever another shot is fired. Admittedly, it is always a little surprising. Unfortunately she did not seem to enjoy

Even with my limited memory, I’m fairly certain I posted this on Geekologie back in the day, but that site when belly-up after I had to leave so here it is again, where it can live on forever, or at least until the internet is destroyed like I pray for

In what is hands down one of the most exciting fireworks displays I’ve ever seen, this is some SimpliSafe home security cam footage of an incident that can only be accurately described as SimpliDangerous. In the video, a mortar firework falls over after being ignited, which then goes off and

This is a video from the sky above Los Angeles of all the illegal fireworks being set off as a plane prepares to land at LAX on the 4th of July. It looks like the apocalypse. And maybe it is. You know, having lived in LA for ten years, I

Note: Volume ON, commentary is value-add (“Holy balls on a butt, and a fart, and a hol-y good snot.”) This is a video from Youtuber thebachelorsfridge experimenting to see if a sparkler will burn all the way through a raw egg he’s poked it in, and sealed the entry and

This is a video of a poor decision maker and former Home Depot employee who decided to set off a firework in the store’s breakroom, presumably to celebrate finally finding the employee restroom instead of having to use a display toilet in the store. He was quickly identified and fired