A boy of nine was nearly blinded after opening an exploding joke pen. Daniel Snelling was left screaming in pain when two other children handed the novelty item to him as a prank at a birthday party.

A COMPANY which makes prank toys has been fined £5,264 after a nine-year-old boy was seriously injured in an accident last year. Funnyman Products, based in Ilford, was prosecuted by Southend Council ...

A toy company has been fined more than £5,000 after a nine-year-old boy suffered a "blast injury" in his eye from a joke exploding pen. Daniel Snelling, of Southend, Essex, was told he was lucky not ...

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This is why you don’t throw a firecracker down the drain. A video from China shows the moment a young boy is knocked to the ground after dropping a lit firecracker down a manhole. It doesn’t quite ...

A young boy discovered a live grenade from the First World War on a Northern Ireland beach that was “capable of exploding”. After finding the unexploded grenade on Cultra beach in County Down, the ...

A boy of nine was nearly blinded after opening an exploding joke pen. Daniel Snelling was left screaming in pain when two other children handed the novelty item to him as a prank at a birthday party.