It's pretty much guaranteed that there will be fireworks mishaps, injuries, and even deaths every year around Independence Day, with this year being no exception.

With public safety in mind, the government would like you to be careful whenever you're dealing with fireworks of any sort, and to emphasize that, the US Consumer Products Safety Commission produced a fairly horrifying (yet, strangely goofy) video to warn you and I about what could happen should we decide to screw around with pyrotechnics:

So, I guess the good-looking mannequins wind up in a store window on Michigan Avenue, the others are forced to take a few for the team.

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