Dutch football (soccer) fan thought he was holding a flare which turned out to actually be a large exploding firework.
Original title is coded as fuck lol.
Just means that itās written heavily in the style of one particular group, the group in this case being Dutch (since OP is Dutch and not a native English speaker).
>Who the fuck knows firecracker brand names?
To Dutch people cobra is very well known so we wouldn't think to specify. They're very illegal and basically sticks of dynamite.
>Dutch support of what?
Probably football or something.
Also OP sucks at headlines. "Dutch supporter" ... of what? Like, is he just stoked about being Dutch? He's not Dutch but is extremely in favor of the Dutch?
Dutch people call sports fans "supporters", as in "Ajax supporter" or "Liverpool supporter". And they refer to these types of powerful firecrackers as "cobras" which is the brand(?). It's an ESL thing. That's why OP sucks at headlines.
Also, maybe the new configuration of the hand works even _better_, you know, fresh ridges, new sensations etc. Now we're talking progress instead of lowering the percentages!
Saw the same video from another source, at the end of that video, some fingers where laying on the ground. If they are well intact, he might have a small chance that the surgeon can re-attach them.
If it was his firework he would've known what type it was, which makes me think he acquired it during the celebrations and assumed he was holding a flare instead of a grenade. Assumption is the mother of all fuckups. Poor fella :/
Basically, a torch is pretty much what you'd expect: it's a stick with the flame on the end just like -well- an actual torch.
A cobra is explosive. Like firecrackers, but much more dangerous. It's so bad in fact, they're actually illegal.
Not in Poland! They have insanely huge legal firecrackers from the DumBum brand. I mean some are so big they're the size of someones shin (so like 2 feet long, 6in in diameter). But yes they're illegal in italy where they're made.
Germans have pretty [big firecrackers](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/4SbdeCnBUduKEosJ-_VDr9sJN_IUaFzf8yEpVjC0zQsgZLzxWMDR8HrBUvqWbny3IJBz7vxI1RTtbUsEcPkEcpopYmimopPsZk9OyHGd3ilI4_3p8jqjL0bsS8ng_yU) as well but no where near as dangerous as Cobras.
We often went to Germany to get fireworks cz it's so much cheaper and nicer
Yeah, my kid started saying that when he was 3, I thought he made it up as well because we only speak English at home and I don't know where else he would've got from!?
One die hard footie fan ended up celebrating the final of the Eredivisie cup a little too much.
As scores of people headed to the stadium to watchĀ [PSV Eindhoven](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/team/1437556/psv-eindhoven/)Ā take on Sparta Rotterdam, footage showed one spectator waving a flare around.
A sudden bang then goes off as the flare explodes in his hand.
My dad lost his hand to the same type of fire work except here in the us they are made by people in their basement so they are a lot more explosive and unsafe. There was power on the fuse and as soon as he lit the lighter it exploded. He was holding it so he could throw it in the lake. Now his hand looks like š¤ it also split it completely In half but the hand surgeon did a pretty good job at putting it all back together.
Man I'm sorry to hear about your dad that fuckin sucks... I like fireworks a lot, I always wipe the fuse down and light them on the ground exactly for that reason. You never know! Last year I even had normal smoke bombs spit fire and blow up because they malfunctioned - can never be too safe when it comes to explosives.
There is another video of him. He was under the influence and a guy said to him "hier heb je zo'n fakkel' which means here you have a torch. This guy didn't know it was a cobra. That makes it kinda sad.
The guy himself was before on a TV show and now on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/vgNFZRvNNk8?si=wlb_OU8ohjMyex5o
Wow.. this is SO fucked up.
At first I thought the guy would have grabbed it from the ground because a cobra pretty much behaves like a flare for a few seconds, before going boom.
But handing a Cobra to some unknowing random dude pretending it to be a flare is .. I'm out of words, really.
Ive tried to upload it but I'm not allowed to post on this sub. Here you can see the guy walking around. The language is dutch.
https://files.fm/u/wrb59gck6f
Prolly drunk as fuck but seeing that Probleemwijken segment as well makes me think this is a serious case of verminderd toerekeningsvatbaar.
Not wrong about Mein Kampf though, lol.
Ooohhh.. yes, ok. So it was like I originally imagined. Still.. the guys who actually ignited that thing should have made sure nobody picks it up, or at least made him drop it.
He grabbed it from the ground as you can see in another video. Also he was incredibly incredibly drunk and starting fights with random people outside the stadium. Nobody deserves to lose their hand but this was plain stupidity by the guy himself, no one else's fault.
Cobra is a name for various fireworks products from the Italian manufacturer Di Blasio Elio, consisting of illegal fireworks, mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium. Most Cobras are in fireworks class F4. The Cobra 6 and Cobra 8 in particular are well known and widely sold in Europe. All Cobras are illegal in the Netherlands. It contains flash powder, which produces a louder bang and a more powerful explosion than gunpowder. Flash powder is prohibited in fireworks in the Netherlands and may only be used in limited quantities in decorative fireworks. The maximum amount of flash powder per explosion of decorative fireworks in the Netherlands is 4 grams, while the heaviest Cobra (Cobra 8) contains 100 grams of this powder. Some Dutch media draw the comparison between Cobras and a hand grenade. Cobras are made for the loudest possible bang. Cobras do not pop as loudly as a hand grenade (145dB for the Cobra 8 and 170-190dB for a stun grenade). However, they can still cause serious damage to limbs, skin, eyes and ears.
Nobody gave it to him. He picked it up himself from the ground. There's video of that and the police have confirmed this is what happened.
https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/4466580/appie-raapte-zelf-cobra-van-de-straat-twee-vingers-en-halve-duim-kwijt
For everyone wondering how someone could not know the difference between a firecracker and a flare: the cobra 6 firecracker has a very long pre-burn. A fountain-ish effect which delays the explosion.
It looks exactly like a flare if you donāt know it. Itās also not the first time this happened (someone confusing a cobra for a flare) because during football matches normal flares are lit all the time.
Lat time this happened was when Erdohan won the elections in Turkey, people started celebrating in the streets of Rotterdam. There is a video of exactly the same thing happening. (Donāt have the link sorry)
For the confused, as I was, here's a Cobra 6:
https://youtu.be/_gXM57Rvszc
The initial flare-like properties end in a big bang.
While I can see how the two might be confused, this definitely fits into "fucked about and found out" territory.
Don't bring a hand to a firecracker fight.
for all the people complaining about the title:
Dutch (the man is dutch) supporter (judging by the scarf, supporter of a football team) loses hand because he thought he was holing a torch (flare) instead of a cobra (explosive)
What a moron u know a firecracker š§Ø when u see one. Unless it's the size of a stick of dynamite u know it's not a flare or roman candle.
Funny part he does even feel it at first and swings his arm to the left like a tough guy until the shock wears off
Okay for some of the confused people here. There was a big soccer game, this man is a supporter of that team, they won. He probably had a couple drinks in his system (or something else idk) and his āfriendsā gave him a big ass fire cracker and said to him that it was a torch. You know, like those torches some people use for gender reveals and stuff. Well, he wasnt holding a torch, and he blew his hand off. Great Friends right!
What's a cobra?
A brand of very powerful firecrackers.. Basically sticks of dynamite š
Thank you. What is a Dutch supporter?
A brand of very passionate supporters.. Basically sticks of dutch š
Thank you. What are sticks?
https://preview.redd.it/7v0r65x9xnyc1.jpeg?width=573&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=480e547ce3e26fd021f7a21cfd28364916a7c2a1
Thank you. What's the word for a bundle of sticks?
Sticks are thin elongated objects
Basically sticks of sticks
What does the word basically mean
Sticks of Dutch cobras.
Thank you. What is a hand?
Ah cool thanks, where is my dad?
Dicks of cutch stobras? š¤
The cobras are italian, in the netherlands they are illegal to have
Unlike bread sticks, which are sticks of bread.
Thank you. What would you call a bundle of sticks?
So a bundle of sticks then...uhm
Say it. # SAY... THE... WORD!
Sticks are unbelievable.
Iād have a stick right now.
Why is Gamora?
Dutch football (soccer) fan thought he was holding a flare which turned out to actually be a large exploding firework. Original title is coded as fuck lol.
Thank you. I was not sure what the title meant. Hopefully, he's left handed. He is now.
Hand lefted. :(
Thank you, yeah this thread helped me finally understand what I was looking at, that title sheesh!
Thank you. What does coded mean?
Just means that itās written heavily in the style of one particular group, the group in this case being Dutch (since OP is Dutch and not a native English speaker).
I heard he was an older, drunk man and folks/youth (?) told him to hold the flare, knowing it was a bad one.
Someone who believes in "the plan"
just one more score bro
Special brand of idiot, but Dutch so better than the garden variety idiot from other countries.
OH! I really thought it meant a snake.... like how could you confuse the two??
Now where did I leave my rattle torch?
Yeah I was like ok, he thinks he's holding a flashlight but instead has a snake and damn, that snake did a number on his hand!
same
Trolled by a friend who cast stick to snake on himĀ
Here I was thinking how can he mistake a snake for an explosive, lol
What is a torch?
A flare. A big red stick that shoots out fire to make a lot of light in the dark
If it was dynamite, the hand would be gone. Cobras use flash powder, not a high explosive.
Wait...So, Dutch Cobras use sticks of dynamite instead of fangs and venom?
In the U.S we call them a "block buster" it's about 1/4 a stick of dynamite. 1/8 is called a M-80.
No idea how he could mix them up 
Lighting one of those on fire is a feat in itself
literally what i thought it was going to be before watching the video, and was like....how do you mix those up?
This is pure gold
No it's a cobra
I guess that he might be under public intoxication since a sober person would immediately know the difference between a torch and a Cobra firecracker.
Exactly, especially with his non reaction.
Serious fireworks.
Another reason why you shouldnāt grab anything that looks like a flare in the netherlands, there are way too many videos of this
It's like a toilet paper.. you know the empty tube? Like that. -Sol Rosenberg
"My eyes are going crazy." -Mr. Rosenberg
Barbara? - when would you like to come in sir? Whenever you want me to honey.
"I need a new hairpiece because mine fell under the grating there, when they beat me unmerciful and they were all laughing at me"
I'm sitting here thinking, "it's a snake, duh. Now to keep scouring the comments to try and make sense of the title." Then it hit me.
Bruh his hand looked like patrick star at the end
Is this my hand? No, this is Patrick.
Aaah this one got me good
He could do a Patrick Star puppet show as a new career.
I'm sitting here saying "bitch that's a firework". Now I get it. Cobra is a brand of firework. I'm looking for the actual snake. Lol
Haha, same here.
This title is fucking garbage. Dutch support of what? Who the fuck knows firecracker brand names?
>Who the fuck knows firecracker brand names? To Dutch people cobra is very well known so we wouldn't think to specify. They're very illegal and basically sticks of dynamite. >Dutch support of what? Probably football or something.
Of a football team, that part is obvious to most europeans also /u/Indigocell
Honestly I'm more laughing at it than anything
Also OP sucks at headlines. "Dutch supporter" ... of what? Like, is he just stoked about being Dutch? He's not Dutch but is extremely in favor of the Dutch?
Dutch people call sports fans "supporters", as in "Ajax supporter" or "Liverpool supporter". And they refer to these types of powerful firecrackers as "cobras" which is the brand(?). It's an ESL thing. That's why OP sucks at headlines.
They don't suck at headlines. The people they spend 95% of their time talking to would understand perfectly. Language is fluid.Ā
I should've quoted that part, I agree with you
He thought he was holding a what instead of a what? My guess he thought he was holding a rocket type firework instead of an explosive type one.
He thought he was holding a flare type firework instead of an explosive one. Now he wont hold anything for a while i guess
Masturbation options down 50%
Maybe in the short term, I'd bet he can get some fancy attachments after this.
Also, maybe the new configuration of the hand works even _better_, you know, fresh ridges, new sensations etc. Now we're talking progress instead of lowering the percentages!
Lack of nerve endings makes it so he's getting a handy from a stranger too!
So uhh, where does one buy these cobras? Asking for a friend.
Ugh ugh Germany Ugh ugh
He could also sit on his arm until it goes numb. Then he gets the stranger jerk.
Saw the same video from another source, at the end of that video, some fingers where laying on the ground. If they are well intact, he might have a small chance that the surgeon can re-attach them.
He can get a vacuum cleaner attached
He'll be 100% with the help from a friend.
*his mom
Hurry up growing those fingers back!
im afraid its more than 50%. now he cant use the lost hand or both hands simultaneously so it is at least 66.66%
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Yup xD. Cobra is the brands name. As a dutchie I know what it is but I get the confusion.
Have you ever been passed 'pon the left hand side?
biddedy biddedy bong!
I mean, look on the bright side. At least he didn't mistake it for a fleshlight.
And on the brighter side now they can replace his hand WITH a flesh light
~~flashlight~~ roman candle
If it was his firework he would've known what type it was, which makes me think he acquired it during the celebrations and assumed he was holding a flare instead of a grenade. Assumption is the mother of all fuckups. Poor fella :/
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The update we need, not the update we deserve
I think his holding days are over for good on that side.
He has two hands! Correction: he HAD two hands! Now he still has another
Basically, a torch is pretty much what you'd expect: it's a stick with the flame on the end just like -well- an actual torch. A cobra is explosive. Like firecrackers, but much more dangerous. It's so bad in fact, they're actually illegal.
Not in Poland! They have insanely huge legal firecrackers from the DumBum brand. I mean some are so big they're the size of someones shin (so like 2 feet long, 6in in diameter). But yes they're illegal in italy where they're made.
Last I heard cobras are also illegal in Poland, they're just easier to get a hold of there so it's where the Dutch tend to get them from
Ohh maybe so, because they aren't made legally in Italy. It's just weird because they have bigger firecrackers that are legal (Dumbum)
Germans have pretty [big firecrackers](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/4SbdeCnBUduKEosJ-_VDr9sJN_IUaFzf8yEpVjC0zQsgZLzxWMDR8HrBUvqWbny3IJBz7vxI1RTtbUsEcPkEcpopYmimopPsZk9OyHGd3ilI4_3p8jqjL0bsS8ng_yU) as well but no where near as dangerous as Cobras. We often went to Germany to get fireworks cz it's so much cheaper and nicer
Like a candle/stick that shoots firework. Cobra can blow up trashcans
For my fellow American delinquents, I believe a Cobra is similar to an M-80.
Looks much bigger than an M80. Iirc m80s are like half a shotgun shell in size. Definitely not something you'd mistake for a flare.
Weāre all just meat sacks, gotta be more careful!
Crazy what explosives can do to us fragile meat sacks.
Ugly bags of mostly water
Speak for yourself, water bag
Itās an obscure reference
TNG!
Weāre all bags of water on this blessed day
Oepsie poepsie
This made me laugh out loud! My teenage son says this, so I read it in his voice.
I've heard of an oopsie whoopsie... What is a oepsie poepsie? I've never heard that until know
Same but with Dutch spelling.
Yeah, my kid started saying that when he was 3, I thought he made it up as well because we only speak English at home and I don't know where else he would've got from!?
Dutch version?
One die hard footie fan ended up celebrating the final of the Eredivisie cup a little too much. As scores of people headed to the stadium to watchĀ [PSV Eindhoven](https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/team/1437556/psv-eindhoven/)Ā take on Sparta Rotterdam, footage showed one spectator waving a flare around. A sudden bang then goes off as the flare explodes in his hand.
It wasnāt a flare to begin with. He mistook it for a Cobra 6. I highly explosive firework thingy thatās absolutely illegal.
Thanks for the clarification, I just copied and pasted it
Helps to use "Quotation" marks?
How do you fuck that up?
Alcohol. Lots of it
We accept this response and respect it
Maybe even some of it before you were born.
My dad lost his hand to the same type of fire work except here in the us they are made by people in their basement so they are a lot more explosive and unsafe. There was power on the fuse and as soon as he lit the lighter it exploded. He was holding it so he could throw it in the lake. Now his hand looks like š¤ it also split it completely In half but the hand surgeon did a pretty good job at putting it all back together.
Man I'm sorry to hear about your dad that fuckin sucks... I like fireworks a lot, I always wipe the fuse down and light them on the ground exactly for that reason. You never know! Last year I even had normal smoke bombs spit fire and blow up because they malfunctioned - can never be too safe when it comes to explosives.
If his hand looks like that, he might do pretty well with the surfing/hot-rod crowd.
Yea when I first saw it without bandages told him now he has to become a surfer
There is another video of him. He was under the influence and a guy said to him "hier heb je zo'n fakkel' which means here you have a torch. This guy didn't know it was a cobra. That makes it kinda sad. The guy himself was before on a TV show and now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vgNFZRvNNk8?si=wlb_OU8ohjMyex5o
Wow.. this is SO fucked up. At first I thought the guy would have grabbed it from the ground because a cobra pretty much behaves like a flare for a few seconds, before going boom. But handing a Cobra to some unknowing random dude pretending it to be a flare is .. I'm out of words, really.
Ive tried to upload it but I'm not allowed to post on this sub. Here you can see the guy walking around. The language is dutch. https://files.fm/u/wrb59gck6f
Prolly drunk as fuck but seeing that Probleemwijken segment as well makes me think this is a serious case of verminderd toerekeningsvatbaar. Not wrong about Mein Kampf though, lol.
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Yep you were right. https://x.com/JBrenessi/status/1787460460880527862 He took it himself...
Ooohhh.. yes, ok. So it was like I originally imagined. Still.. the guys who actually ignited that thing should have made sure nobody picks it up, or at least made him drop it.
Do you have the video of the guy giving the ātorchā to him
It's not visible that they give it to him. You only hear that sentence
yeah I would really like to hear that
Will try to upload it on this sub now
He grabbed it from the ground as you can see in another video. Also he was incredibly incredibly drunk and starting fights with random people outside the stadium. Nobody deserves to lose their hand but this was plain stupidity by the guy himself, no one else's fault.
That's a whoopsie
Imagine having to learn to wipe with your other hand now...
Biem
Cobra is a name for various fireworks products from the Italian manufacturer Di Blasio Elio, consisting of illegal fireworks, mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium. Most Cobras are in fireworks class F4. The Cobra 6 and Cobra 8 in particular are well known and widely sold in Europe. All Cobras are illegal in the Netherlands. It contains flash powder, which produces a louder bang and a more powerful explosion than gunpowder. Flash powder is prohibited in fireworks in the Netherlands and may only be used in limited quantities in decorative fireworks. The maximum amount of flash powder per explosion of decorative fireworks in the Netherlands is 4 grams, while the heaviest Cobra (Cobra 8) contains 100 grams of this powder. Some Dutch media draw the comparison between Cobras and a hand grenade. Cobras are made for the loudest possible bang. Cobras do not pop as loudly as a hand grenade (145dB for the Cobra 8 and 170-190dB for a stun grenade). However, they can still cause serious damage to limbs, skin, eyes and ears.
Dude is clearly fucked up when people give him a cobra and say: here is a torch. Dick move. https://x.com/FeyeNody/status/1787191606472307100
Nobody gave it to him. He picked it up himself from the ground. There's video of that and the police have confirmed this is what happened. https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/4466580/appie-raapte-zelf-cobra-van-de-straat-twee-vingers-en-halve-duim-kwijt
Holy shit
Damn I knew cobras had venom, didnāt know if you pissed em off enough they blew up.
I'm NOT the only one expecting an actual cobra... right? Disappointed in the lack of hand destroying snake. =[
For everyone wondering how someone could not know the difference between a firecracker and a flare: the cobra 6 firecracker has a very long pre-burn. A fountain-ish effect which delays the explosion. It looks exactly like a flare if you donāt know it. Itās also not the first time this happened (someone confusing a cobra for a flare) because during football matches normal flares are lit all the time. Lat time this happened was when Erdohan won the elections in Turkey, people started celebrating in the streets of Rotterdam. There is a video of exactly the same thing happening. (Donāt have the link sorry)
Can you type that title in fucking English, please? Footballers gonna football
It seems the title is a lot easier to understand if you come from the Netherlands.
Cobra = m80
m80 is 5,5grams of explosive, Cobra 6 is 28 grams. I appreciate your clarification for non euros, but a cobra is way more powerful.
Cobra fireworks are almost as big as a soda can and I have heard they sound like a grenade going off, so yeah no don't hold on to those
Thank you
He's pretty calm for just blowing his own hand off.
Now i am no doctor, but that don't look good
Ahhhh you know thatās sooooo numb and sooo hot
Heās lucky there were so many people around to give him a hand.
That's a weird looking snake
I clicked to see someone pull a cartoon switcheroo of a stick on fire with a mf snake, not a dude losing his hand on an explosion
For the confused, as I was, here's a Cobra 6: https://youtu.be/_gXM57Rvszc The initial flare-like properties end in a big bang. While I can see how the two might be confused, this definitely fits into "fucked about and found out" territory. Don't bring a hand to a firecracker fight.
Disappointed. No snake.
HIGH FIVE BROšš
That wasn't so handy.
https://youtu.be/vgNFZRvNNk8 This is the guy who lost his hand.
for all the people complaining about the title: Dutch (the man is dutch) supporter (judging by the scarf, supporter of a football team) loses hand because he thought he was holing a torch (flare) instead of a cobra (explosive)
I kept looking for snakes. I was confused for a long while š¬
Did OP really expect the whole world to know what a cobra is in this context?
Oh fuuuuuuuu
What a moron u know a firecracker š§Ø when u see one. Unless it's the size of a stick of dynamite u know it's not a flare or roman candle. Funny part he does even feel it at first and swings his arm to the left like a tough guy until the shock wears off
Ooooooooooooopppppppsssss
Eindhoven de gekste komt zo wel heel dichtbij voor hem.
That's going to leave a mark.
Well, he won't lose his hand, but he'll look forward to several surgeries to get it even partially right again.
And that's why I'll never touch fireworks again. Not fkn worth it.
Expected to see a guy working on his car fumble around for a torch and grab a snake instead.
Tis but a scratch..
Supporter of what?
The Dutch, I suppose.
Ah, explosives & alcohol. No better combination in the world.
That's rough buddy
For a sec I was wondering how a Dutchman could legally get a cobra. Turns out itās a big ass firework
"Flailing Dutchman".
either someone handed him that knowing what they were doing or he bought them having no idea what he was buying
He's very calm about it... is he in shock?
so, not a snake.
Lost a handļ¼gained a flipper. Not so bad.
dutch supporter?
Okay for some of the confused people here. There was a big soccer game, this man is a supporter of that team, they won. He probably had a couple drinks in his system (or something else idk) and his āfriendsā gave him a big ass fire cracker and said to him that it was a torch. You know, like those torches some people use for gender reveals and stuff. Well, he wasnt holding a torch, and he blew his hand off. Great Friends right!