Former Disney Employee Dies After Lighting Fireworks On His Head.

Devon Staples of Calais, Maine blew his head off when he lit a fireworks mortar tube on his head. Staples had been drinking at a 4th of July party.

“When he suggested he was going to do this, his friends gathered around him and they thought they had convinced him not to do it,” Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland told the Bangor Daily News.

Staples’ brother, Cody, told the New York Daily News that Devon held a lighter near the fireworks and it accidentally lighted.

“Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid,” Cody said. “He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh.

According to the NY Daily News, Staples used to work at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, where he wore a costume and entertained children.

“He loved making people happy,” said his brother.

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