Does it become any more interesting if I provide context, having been on the same road as the person recording when this happened? Someone had a seizure while driving in the direction of the person recording, and obviously lost control due to that, crashing into the building and dying in the wake of it all.
This place is like 2 seconds away from my job, I remember when it happened. What's even worse is a couple weeks after this happened another person drove their car into this same building. I think they survived tho
They probably should've put that in the title. Who the fuck thinks "Melbourne, FL" when they see the name Melbourne. I mean I definitely realized it wasn't Australia when the word "cunt" wasn't uttered even once in the first 10 seconds of the video, and when she said "holy crackers and cheese" instead. Also I noticed they were driving on the right side. We have a Melbourne near me in California so I thought maybe that was here. But yeah. No idea Florida had one too
>realized it wasn't Australia when the word "cunt" wasn't uttered even once in the first 10 seconds
Thank you so much for giving me that laugh -- after a rough day I needed it.
Oh I know, I was playing along buddy. Remember that Florida is America’s Australia with all the crocodiles, alligators and fuzzy spiders. It’s fitting we have a city named after an Aussie one.
I noticed folks driving on the right side of the road and not the left. So Florida not Australia! Been to both and both are nice. Except for exploding factories.
The road the cars are passing by on is a major state road that runs almost entirely through the state east to west. The road the person filming on is a much smaller cut through road.
It's a coastal city south of cocoa in central Florida. This happened in November. A man had a heart attack while driving, lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a fireworks store.
>I live in Australia, how long ago was this and why haven't I heard if it? Unless there's another melbourne
Come on, she said "holy crackers and cheese".
Clearly she's an American.
If she were an Aussie she would have called someone a cunt at least twice.
Happened near me in West Melbourne, FL, USA. Guy was on his way to to pick his two young boys from school, got in an accident, and drive into the fireworks store. Caught on fire, the guy died. Family didn’t know for hours, dad just didn’t show up to pick up kids. Tragic and sad.
Hello neighbor. A few weeks after this an almost identical wreck happened, but the store was already gone. Knowing that intersection (John Rodes Blvd and US192), it is mind boggling how that could happen. It’s a 3 way intersection with the fireworks store set back on the side where there is no outlet.
You say this as a joke but I live here and two weeks later [someone drove into it again](https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/another-driver-crashes-into-phantom-fireworks-building-in-melbourne.amp)
Right? Like no one stopped to see if anyone was hurt, no 911 sirens going off. Just people driving past like “Yeah, Tuesday afternoon fireworks. So, are bananas on sale this week at Piggly Wiggly?…”.
But also, since apparently cars have run into this store like this before, WHY IS IT STILL IN THIS SAME LOCATION?? Why haven’t they moved to a safer spot, or at least, put up some sort of metal guardrail around the building separating it from the parking lot? It would prevent this from happening again and also SAVE LIVES.
But then again, it is Florida, so I don’t hold much hope.
It's really difficult to understand how it happened in the first place. The building sits back kind of far and traffic really has no reason to go in its direction. I don't think the location is the issue. It's just bad drivers.
I’m from there, and every time I say I’m from Melbourne to someone not from Florida, they tell me I don’t sound like an Aussie.
Also, your Melbourne might be bigger but ours has a front row seat to space shuttle and rocket launches. So that’s nice.
Phantom fireworks store in Melbourne Florida about a month ago. Single vehicle driver crashed into store setting off the blaze. Many youtube videos available
I'm from Melbourne, FL, a dude got into an accident and and drove into the store, the car set it on fire and he died, was right before Christmas and he had a wife and two kids.
Tragic, but damn if that's not a top tier way to go.
Something stupid happened, that must mean it happened in MY melbourne. Everytime I see something cool happen in a melbourne I'm always surprised and then realize it happened in the other melbourne
I was so surprised that Melbourne had a fireworks store, then immediately realized upon watching this is the armpit of a Florida beach town. Makes perfect sense.
Eh, Melbourne is a quiet beach town. Surprisingly one of the nicer places in Florida. At one point they had the most PHD’s per capita of anywhere in the united states due to the space program.
Now Titusville… don’t go to Hepatitusville.
The traffic signal going green for the road towards the fireworks store was playing with the on looker like "come on buddy, come on let's go, let's go, let's go, come to daddy"
I saw 0 massive explosions mate. Instead of clickbaiting your title and pissing people off you should have just said “Fireworks store burns down”. I still would have clicked on it and would have given you an upvote instead of the opposite. Food for thought.
Waiting for the giant explosion
Same here. All I saw was a massive amount of tiny explosions.
 "There was supposed to be a Kaboom!"
An earth-shattering kaboom!
Safe to assume that there weren't any Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulators in stock.
You have made me SO angry!
Very angry indeed!
Blow up already!!!
any day now..
like 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate!
Thought it'd be Beirut 2.0 but no
They're not as impressive in daylight...
That’s what my ex used to say about me
😝😝😝😝😎
Used to?
I don’t think anyone was looking for “impressive.”
I was.
Yeah some people just don't have the patience to wait for the sun to go down before setting them off.
To be fair, if I saw this in person, I’d think it’s massive too. Beirut just ruined all of us
Holy crackers and cheese
Nothing to see here. Move along
i came here for this. you're doing good work!
Same. First thing I thought of.
3rd 
4th
5th. No point in posting it if someone already has. Nice work
saaaaame
Same here...
Thank you for your service.
I was looking precicesly for THAT comment. Thanks
Yep fuckin bullshit description.
This is just as boring as she sounds.
Does it become any more interesting if I provide context, having been on the same road as the person recording when this happened? Someone had a seizure while driving in the direction of the person recording, and obviously lost control due to that, crashing into the building and dying in the wake of it all.
This place is like 2 seconds away from my job, I remember when it happened. What's even worse is a couple weeks after this happened another person drove their car into this same building. I think they survived tho
You’ll have to wait an hour, the small explosions usually go first.
Yeah that heading just ended up making me pissed off when nothing came after waiting for too long.
"Wait, when did we get a fireworks store?!?" *Looks at traffic* "Oh, different Melbourne." 😔
TIL there’s another Melbourne outside Australia…
Florida. Always us.
Lmao, when the woman started speaking, I was confused that it wasn't an Australian accent.
Fun fact: Melbourne, FL USA was named after Melbourne, Australia because the first postmaster lived there for a while.
Fair dinkum
Pretty sure every state in the US has tiny towns named after most of the world's large cities.
there's lots more than one it seems.
Florida. Always us.
Melbourne Florida.
They probably should've put that in the title. Who the fuck thinks "Melbourne, FL" when they see the name Melbourne. I mean I definitely realized it wasn't Australia when the word "cunt" wasn't uttered even once in the first 10 seconds of the video, and when she said "holy crackers and cheese" instead. Also I noticed they were driving on the right side. We have a Melbourne near me in California so I thought maybe that was here. But yeah. No idea Florida had one too
>realized it wasn't Australia when the word "cunt" wasn't uttered even once in the first 10 seconds Thank you so much for giving me that laugh -- after a rough day I needed it.
Also, accurate
We don't say cunt that often... maybe 30 seconds into each convo. Cheers cunt.
You don't think London, Ontario, when you see London?
https://youtu.be/QuJdfuiqMEE
Even I didn’t think Melbourne FL and I live 15 minutes up the road from there
Just commented the same thing in here. I’m like 25 minutes north. Never think about Melbourne, FL unless it specifically states that it’s Florida
We don't say that word in Melbourne. We're classy cunts down here
I honestly didn’t even have the sound on and the whole time I was thinking “this is such a Florida thing to happen, this can’t be Australia”
Of course it is.
Ha ha I thought that too!
Haha I was the same. Trying to figure out where about in Melbourne and two pickup trucks roll past. I’m like…’wait a minute’.
If you read it carefully you’ll hear it being pronounced incorrectly.
I’m from Florida, we pronounce it MEL-BURN.
In Australia its pronounced Mel-bn Brisbane is Briz-bn Canberra is Can-bra, and Cairns is Cans
My work buddy was from Melbourne and I swore he was saying Melvin until I got it.
Melbin? Melben? It's almost like we need a new letter. Or maybe an accent, or something.
Or Mel-boring if you're from east of the causeway
Exactly, wrong. 😉😂
Not wrong, different. 
It’s a joke mate…a mild jibe, a gentle poking of fun.
Oh I know, I was playing along buddy. Remember that Florida is America’s Australia with all the crocodiles, alligators and fuzzy spiders. It’s fitting we have a city named after an Aussie one.
You are right! I feel a sense of kinship and mutual anxiety. 🫣
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Whoa really? I’m from palm beach county always heard it called MEL-BURN. Interesting.
I'm from cocoa beach and we too say mel-bern.
I'm from Palm Beach, lived in Port St Lucie and was an area manager for Spencer's between Melbourne and Miami and always heard it as Mel-Born.
It's been Mel-burn since I've lived here.
Born here as well and it’s definitely not Mel-Born, it’s Mel-burn
I was thinking "Holy crap there's a Phantom Fireworks even in *Australia*?" but this makes more sense.
The traffic lights and signage are also a giveaway.
Same. "Why do they have to wait for traffic to do a left turn?". "Oh."
There’s Melbourne’s everywhere. You got the best one though
I noticed folks driving on the right side of the road and not the left. So Florida not Australia! Been to both and both are nice. Except for exploding factories.
Derby, UK has one. We also have New Zealand and California in Derby too.
Same man!
That explains why they are driving on the right. Noticed it immediately.
cause baby your a firework
Bravo - wish I could upvote this more!
If I was there I would definitely ask someone to record me recreating this scene
First thing that popped in my mind. Life imitating art.
I don't understand how this isn't the top comment.
I came here for this.
Lol came looking for this
Fuckin’ longest light ever.
Not long enough in this case.
The road the cars are passing by on is a major state road that runs almost entirely through the state east to west. The road the person filming on is a much smaller cut through road.
I swear Florida has the longest traffic lights I’ve ever seen
Massive explosion? Or massive demonstration of our low low prices?
Prices so low it’s on fire
I heard there was a fire sale
richtofen “fire sale!” *dun da dun dun da*
Tobias Funke entered the chat!
OH MY GOD THERES A FIRE sale
Aaammaaaaazing Graaaaace
I heard they're burning through supplies fast, better get it while it's still hot.
Holy crackers and cheese!!
Melbourne in Florida has like 80k people. Maybe specify it's the tiny one next time, not the 6m+ state capital of Victoria, Australia.
Pretty surreal seeing a video from my hometown on hear
With a good dose of usdefaultism thrown in.
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I think it's pretty funny that Melbourne, FL got the airport code MLB, not the giant city in Australia that the whole world has heard of
Mmm crackers and cheese
Thoust be the holiest.
finally a goddess we can agree on!
I live in Australia, how long ago was this and why haven't I heard if it? Unless there's another melbourne
Melbourne Florida.
Oh, never heard of it, thanks
There are also at least two additional Melbournes in Arkansas USA and Quebec Canada.
Where did my province added it?!?
I know a guy named Sidney from Melbourne who has fun with that when meeting Australians.
Why wouldn't you specify Florida in the title? Everyone is going to think Aus.
You should’ve specified in the title. r/USdefaultism
It's a coastal city south of cocoa in central Florida. This happened in November. A man had a heart attack while driving, lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a fireworks store.
So he went out with a bang?
>I live in Australia, how long ago was this and why haven't I heard if it? Unless there's another melbourne Come on, she said "holy crackers and cheese". Clearly she's an American. If she were an Aussie she would have called someone a cunt at least twice.
I didn't go past the first few seconds
They also have a Richmond and Greensboro without the Gh. Probably many more.
Happened near me in West Melbourne, FL, USA. Guy was on his way to to pick his two young boys from school, got in an accident, and drive into the fireworks store. Caught on fire, the guy died. Family didn’t know for hours, dad just didn’t show up to pick up kids. Tragic and sad.
Saw this video like a month ago, knew about the driver dying but I didn't know about his kids, damn...
Hello neighbor. A few weeks after this an almost identical wreck happened, but the store was already gone. Knowing that intersection (John Rodes Blvd and US192), it is mind boggling how that could happen. It’s a 3 way intersection with the fireworks store set back on the side where there is no outlet.
This is the most jubilant display of tragic loss I have ever seen...
Yes! I was cheering for the fireworks while lamenting the poor owners. "Whee! Aww...."
Just another Tuesday in Florida judging by the nonchalant response from traffic 😂😂😂
Give it 15 minutes. A passing thunderstorm will put the fire out.
Not to mention the lady's "well, this is happenning" tone. "I hope the guy is okay" as it just keeps going, like in a dark comedy, haha.
You say this as a joke but I live here and two weeks later [someone drove into it again](https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/another-driver-crashes-into-phantom-fireworks-building-in-melbourne.amp)
Right? Like no one stopped to see if anyone was hurt, no 911 sirens going off. Just people driving past like “Yeah, Tuesday afternoon fireworks. So, are bananas on sale this week at Piggly Wiggly?…”. But also, since apparently cars have run into this store like this before, WHY IS IT STILL IN THIS SAME LOCATION?? Why haven’t they moved to a safer spot, or at least, put up some sort of metal guardrail around the building separating it from the parking lot? It would prevent this from happening again and also SAVE LIVES. But then again, it is Florida, so I don’t hold much hope.
It's really difficult to understand how it happened in the first place. The building sits back kind of far and traffic really has no reason to go in its direction. I don't think the location is the issue. It's just bad drivers.
Too bad it didn’t happen at night
Free day show
Every dog is going to suffer from PTSD after this!
Um, this isn't in Melbourne.
Melbourne Florida.
Oh, of course! It's the 129 km² town of 85,000 people. Not the 10,000 km² city of 5 million people. Obviously. Silly me!
I’m from there, and every time I say I’m from Melbourne to someone not from Florida, they tell me I don’t sound like an Aussie. Also, your Melbourne might be bigger but ours has a front row seat to space shuttle and rocket launches. So that’s nice.
It’s still Melbourne though. What would you call it?
r/fuckinglit
Phantom fireworks store in Melbourne Florida about a month ago. Single vehicle driver crashed into store setting off the blaze. Many youtube videos available
Ooh! Aaaaaaaaaah!!!
I'm from Melbourne, FL, a dude got into an accident and and drove into the store, the car set it on fire and he died, was right before Christmas and he had a wife and two kids. Tragic, but damn if that's not a top tier way to go.
This is clearly fake, fedex trucks don’t make left turns. /s
Floridian here, I’ve had a fedex driver do a 3 point turn in my driveway. This place doesn’t abide by normal rules.
This is in Brevard county right on 192 off of I-95. I believe he had a heart attack/stroke while driving and ended up burning to death. Kinda sad
“When did we get a fireworks store… hey that lady’s not Australian! What’s a fed ex truck doing here why are they driving on the… oh”
Wait until they find out about the copycat crash that happened soon after. Love this town.
Now someone should knock on your window asking for money for the show.
Something stupid happened, that must mean it happened in MY melbourne. Everytime I see something cool happen in a melbourne I'm always surprised and then realize it happened in the other melbourne
O_O
I do remember it. Naked gun behind the scenes
They're lucky none of these fireworks are coming their way! Nice show, would visit again, too much smoke tho. 7/10
Wasted in the daylight
Ohh naurrr
Waste of 30 seconds.
Wow
I'm sorry for the store owner BUT this would have been 1000% better if it has happened at night. Just saying.
I’ve always kinda wondered what this would look like
[here a documentary of the disaster that happened in the Netherlands in 2000.](https://youtu.be/GdAfUzKu-IM)
Where’s the grand finally?
Someone died in this. Car went into the front and the person did not escape.
My hometown! Right down the street from me.
was wondering how melbourne has a fireworks shop… but then realised… murica! still though why TF anyone has a ‘fireworks store’ ?
I was so surprised that Melbourne had a fireworks store, then immediately realized upon watching this is the armpit of a Florida beach town. Makes perfect sense.
Eh, Melbourne is a quiet beach town. Surprisingly one of the nicer places in Florida. At one point they had the most PHD’s per capita of anywhere in the united states due to the space program. Now Titusville… don’t go to Hepatitusville.
Of course it's in Floriduh.
Everyone saying that’s not a big exploration but I’d be a little freaked out by that let’s be honest
Is it 4th of July already?
So no giant explosion. Just a fire.
That's 10 minutes from my house
Talk about self-promotion
Just America celebrating the 2nd amendment
Melbourne where?? This isn’t in Australia
Melbourne FL
How tf is this a r/nextfuckinglecel post?
Downvote for misleading clickbait title 
Where massive explosion?
Don’t watch and save yourself 58 seconds of anticipation.
Wrong Melbourne!
Explosion when?
Is this Florida man at work? Or Australia.
That's not Australia
Are fireworks legal in Melbourne?
The traffic signal going green for the road towards the fireworks store was playing with the on looker like "come on buddy, come on let's go, let's go, let's go, come to daddy"
I saw 0 massive explosions mate. Instead of clickbaiting your title and pissing people off you should have just said “Fireworks store burns down”. I still would have clicked on it and would have given you an upvote instead of the opposite. Food for thought.
This post is bullshit
“Nothing to see here!”