Comes Around Shannon Kramer, 35, says he was pulling a prank on his girlfriend in Riverside, Fla., after a fight. He had lit the fuse on a 6-inch rocket and intended to fire it out the window of his car, but the fuse burned faster than he expected and it ignited and flew around inside the car, bouncing around and then landing between his legs, where it exploded. “I thought I was dead,” Kramer said later from his hospital bed. “I couldn’t see, I couldn’t hear. I went to stand up and I couldn’t walk.” Police sent the case to the State Attorney’s Office, but prosecutors there decided not to press any charges. (Florida Times-Union) ...Because they knew they couldn’t describe the scene to the judge without laughing. Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 10