JPP posts horrific hand photo to warn you of fireworks
Former Giants star Jason Pierre-Paul sent out a reminder to be c​​areful with fireworks this Fourth of July — with hard-to-forget gruesome images of his mangled hand.
The 29-year-old defensive end famously disfigured his right digits when handling fireworks on July 4, 2015, and had to have his index finger amputated.
The stomach-churning photos he posted on Instagram show his charred skin being held together by pins and strings and large swaths of exposed skin.
“Looking at these pictures seems unreal and crazy. How your life can change in the blink of an eye,” Pierre-Paul wrote. “We are celebrating the birthday of our great nation. I’m glad to still be alive to show you the outcome of what happened to me. Please don’t feel sorry for me, trust me your boy fine even with missing fingers lol,” said.
Issuing a final warning, the ​current Tampa Bay Buccaneer wrote: “Be safe out there otherwise, this can be you.”
Of the 11,000 fireworks-related injuries in 2016, 7,600 were treated in ERs during the period between June 18 and July 18, according to a report on 2016 by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and its National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE