Back last November, for Bonfire night (or Guy Fawkes Night, a UK holiday), my mate Mike bought a load of fireworks for the evening. He managed to get hold of a few "commercial grade" ones too...

This clip shows one of those, it had the name 'Mortar' on it if I remember right. We didn't know what it was going to do. I was filming from about 20 feet away I'd say. Anyway, it starts off nice and gentle with a simple showering plume of sparks, but then without warning, simply goes 'boom!'

And I mean BOOM!

It literally explodes right in front of me, sending up into the air two last smaller explosives I think. I kid you not, this was the 1st time in my life I'd ever felt a 'shockwave'... Like when you see in the movies when something blows up and it sends people flying through the air (a typical Hollywood over-exagerration, but I digress...) Yeah! A real bloody shockwave! A small one to be sure, but still... Anyway, when we go to pick out another one of these 'Mortars', I had a quick squizz over the instructions, which stated

"Keep a minimum safe distance of at least 25 meters."

:-0

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