{"id":567211,"date":"2025-11-13T08:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T08:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/567211\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T08:10:16","slug":"moment-man-suffered-burns-after-trying-to-launch-firework-from-bottom-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/567211\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment man suffered burns after trying to launch firework from bottom in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shocking footage shows the moment a man suffered burns after trying to launch a firework from his bottom.<\/p>\n<p>A laughing friend ignites the firework using a lighter in the middle of the street, but rather than it taking off, the projectile explodes on the spot causing nasty burns to the victim&#8217;s backside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead of rushing to his aid, onlookers can be heard laughing in hysterics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dd27e25b-efb7-4f3d-92bd-d5e2e7167f7d.jpg\"   alt=\"Man suffers burns after trying to launch a firework from his bottom in Birmingham.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Man suffers burns after trying to launch a firework from his bottom in Birmingham<\/p>\n<p>The footage &#8211; obtained by Birmz Is Grime &#8211; is believed to have been filmed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/environment\/2025\/11\/12\/birmingham-labour-leaders-have-lost-grip-on-power-union-at-centre-of-bin-strikes-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> area over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rospa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)<\/a> revealed ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/2025\/11\/08\/call-for-major-change-to-bonfire-night-celebrations-in-birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bonfire Night<\/a> last week that firework-related accidents had risen by 42 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Latest figures from the Home Office said 246 such incidents occurred in 2024\/2025, up from 185 in the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>RoSPA said the stats highlighted &#8216;a worrying trend&#8217; in unsafe firework use and human error remained the &#8216;primary factor&#8217; in more than 75 per cent of incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Guy said: \u201cOnly adults should handle them and never mix alcohol with lighting fireworks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The shocking rise in incidents over the past year is a stark reminder of the dangers they pose when misused.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shocking footage shows the moment a man suffered burns after trying to launch a firework from his bottom.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,10235,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-567211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-latest-videos","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115541379646135737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}