Can we be done with fireworks yet?

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bradly1101

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In the distant future, archaeologists will know the residents of the U.S. as drunk, thoughtless, egotistical, huge car buying lumps. How not to be is the lesson here.
 

GagHalfrunt

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In the distant future, archaeologists will know the residents of the U.S. as drunk, thoughtless, egotistical, huge car buying lumps. How not to be is the lesson here.

You know what's even worse than being a drunk, thoughtless, egotistical, huge car buying lump? It's to be proud of being a drunk, thoughtless, egotistical, huge car buying lump. That's the real problem with the USA going forward. We were a country that was proud of intelligence, work and accomplishments. Now people are proud of knowing nothing, doing nothing, being nothing.
 
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IronWing

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When I was a kid, I got little toy fireworks from the German festival. I think they were technically illegal, but they flew under the radar. My favorite was the tank. It would roll forward, stop, then fire three guns. I'm not a big fan of wasting money on fireworks, but I'd buy a box of them if I had the chance.
The tanks were cool. We also had the spinning flowers but we had to be careful with those because the dog would try to attack them.
 

IronWing

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In the distant future, archaeologists will know the residents of the U.S. as drunk, thoughtless, egotistical, huge car buying lumps. How not to be is the lesson here.
What's wrong with big cars? If I had the money and patience for keeping it on the road, I'd be driving a 1973 New Yorker every day. The helipad on the hood is so handy.
 

lxskllr

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The tanks were cool. We also had the spinning flowers but we had to be careful with those because the dog would try to attack them.
The spinning flowers left something that looked like Asian writing on the concrete. It was almost as much fun trying to discern pictures from the scorch marks as it was seeing the flowers :^)
 

local

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When I was in 3rd grade I made a replica Alamo out of popsicle sticks for a project complete with army men manning the ramparts. The whole thing was about 4 sq. ft. Even while building it I knew exactly what it was going to be used for, fireworks. When the 4th came around I loaded up on those crap tanks that were mentioned earlier, several thousand black cats and lots of small roman candles. As the sun set I waged the second battle of the Alamo, it was glorious. The whole thing was built on a styrofoam block so I was able to embed single black cats and a few M-60s so areas could explode taking out the troops and buildings.

I must have spent two hours blasting away at that thing and at the end it finally burned down. The styrofoam block melted into our sidewalk and the stain remained until we left that house about 15 years later. It is one of my best childhood memories and it wouldn't have been possible without fireworks.
 
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GagHalfrunt

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What's wrong with big cars? If I had the money and patience for keeping it on the road, I'd be driving a 1973 New Yorker every day. The helipad on the hood is so handy.

But having to drive to Montana to do a 3-point turn is a little inconvenient, so it all balances out.
 
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mindless1

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In the distant future, archaeologists will know the residents of the U.S. as drunk, thoughtless, egotistical, huge car buying lumps. How not to be is the lesson here.

Isn't that a bit egotistical? The alternative is we're all anal retentive and allow all our freedoms to be eroded away because someone else subjectively disapproves of something we have. Pretty soon there would be nothing left but being a cog in the machine.

You know what's even worse than being a drunk, thoughtless, egotistical, huge car buying lump? It's to be proud of being a drunk, thoughtless, egotistical, huge car buying lump.

Quite the opposite, I am proud to support a country where we have the freedom to make choices and succeed based on them. If someone else wants to live hard and fast, what's it to you? Shouldn't that make it easier to compete and prosper? That doesn't mean they don't have to adhere to laws.

I always find it funny when someone gets worked up about the choices someone else makes. If it's your child living in your basement at age 30, you have concerns as a parent, or if it's your spouse who is unemployed and spending all day drinking Budweiser on the couch, again this directly effects you.

There was always a majority segment of society that was proud of knowing nothing, doing nothing, being nothing. It's not unique to the US and you're just more aware of them now because the internet gave them a voice.
 

IronWing

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Where I live even sparklers are banned. Snakes are ok lol.
Drop a bunch of lit snakes into a glass bottle and screw the cap back on tight. See if you can get snakes banned.


Do they even make glass bottles with screw on caps anymore?
 

lxskllr

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Nov 30, 2004
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Do they even make glass bottles with screw on caps anymore?
Some boutique sodas do. Fentimans and Belvoir fruit farms soda comes that way.

Edit:
European sparkling water does also, as does one from Arkansas.

Edit2:
You could make MRE heater bombs. Stuff a heater into a bottle(glass for shrapnel, plastic for noise only), add a bit of water, and cap it.
 

Platypus

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They're still blowing shit up here, it's been like 9 days of fireworks. I will never understand the fascination, and generally I am ok with it unless you're blowing shit up at 1am like these assholes.
 

Fir

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This woman obviously has two flat feet like Donald Duck and clearly doesn't give a fuck!

 

destrekor

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I bought a box when I was down south for vacation with family. They were for sale everywhere and I figured my nephews would love it. Figured if they were selling them they must be legal. I figured wrong... about near the end of the box some guy on a bike shows up and starts giving us hell and telling us that it's illegal etc. We looked into it and sure enough it was illegal there. Oops. Thankfully we managed to leave the area before the cops showed up and there was lot of other people setting some off. Damn tourists not finding out the rules. IMO at very least they should have designated areas that are legal. This was a beach and we were shooting them over the water and it was perfectly safe.

We also figured Chinese lanterns were legal but those are illegal too. We set one off in honour of my great grandma when she passed away. I'm sure we made her proud by doing something illegal in her honour lol.

Come on dude. Between your posts in the HOA thread and this one, I'm having trouble gauging your mental age here.
I don't mean to attack, I mean I sure as hell have said some stupid shit on this forum (and was properly called out for it) but for real though... "if they were selling them, they must be legal" is a statement so ignorant that the cops won't even bat an eye when dealing with you.

I might be wrong but I thought you were around my age (30ish), and I don't know how you got to this point with views like that.

Maybe Canada is far more of a wonderland than I ever imagined? I suppose that is possible.

As far as what is actually legal and illegal... when dealing with fireworks, if they are "ground effects" then they are probably legal. If they shoot anything into the air (with or without flash and/or report) then they are probably illegal, at least in most jurisdictions. Fireworks that shoot into the sky tend to carry risk of fire, and just because you launched something over water doesn't mean you've satisfied the LEO and/or the law in regards to safety, especially because good ol' Murphy has a habit of showing up when you least expect it.
 

destrekor

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They're still blowing shit up here, it's been like 9 days of fireworks. I will never understand the fascination, and generally I am ok with it unless you're blowing shit up at 1am like these assholes.

1am isn't cool, for sure.

I'm surprised at the amount of surprise regarding fireworks being lit up after the 4th. I swear I thought this was 100% the norm between birth and today, and there are years in that time that I don't even remember so...

I wish I got some cheap fireworks on the 5th, but I didn't even think about it.
 

nakedfrog

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Come on dude. Between your posts in the HOA thread and this one, I'm having trouble gauging your mental age here.
I don't mean to attack, I mean I sure as hell have said some stupid shit on this forum (and was properly called out for it) but for real though... "if they were selling them, they must be legal" is a statement so ignorant that the cops won't even bat an eye when dealing with you.

I might be wrong but I thought you were around my age (30ish), and I don't know how you got to this point with views like that.

Maybe Canada is far more of a wonderland than I ever imagined? I suppose that is possible.

As far as what is actually legal and illegal... when dealing with fireworks, if they are "ground effects" then they are probably legal. If they shoot anything into the air (with or without flash and/or report) then they are probably illegal, at least in most jurisdictions. Fireworks that shoot into the sky tend to carry risk of fire, and just because you launched something over water doesn't mean you've satisfied the LEO and/or the law in regards to safety, especially because good ol' Murphy has a habit of showing up when you least expect it.
And he gets puzzled when people inform him that he's naive.
 

Oyeve

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Its all banned from NYC. The year they banned it I had a case of M-80s and M-100s. Those were always illegal but when everything went illegal people were getting arrested for m-80s and m-100s. I stored them in my closet and forgot about them for around 20 years. Then when I moved to a new apt I cam across them the picric acid (similar to TNT) was leaking badly so I soaked them in a tub until they fell apart then tossed them.
 

Red Squirrel

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Come on dude. Between your posts in the HOA thread and this one, I'm having trouble gauging your mental age here.
I don't mean to attack, I mean I sure as hell have said some stupid shit on this forum (and was properly called out for it) but for real though... "if they were selling them, they must be legal" is a statement so ignorant that the cops won't even bat an eye when dealing with you.

Seemed logical to us at the time, if something is illegal why would they sell it everywhere and encourage it's use? Normally illegal things are also illegal to sell. Ex: drugs. That and everyone else was doing it so that, coupled with the fact that they were being sold everywhere made gave us the false idea that it must be legal there. We turned out to be wrong but how we were suppose to know? We just got lucky that enough people were doing it too that we never got found by the cops. It's not like we actually met harm. They should not allow the sale of something if it's not allowed to use it. One way to look at it is if there is road and it's illegal to go on it for one reason or the other but it's not marked as such, how are you suppose to know? It seems they make stuff illegal but try to lead people to think that it's not, just so that they can use the "ignorance of law is no excuse" clause against them.

The issue these days seems to be that way too many things are illegal. Not allowed to have fun. And people complain that kids spend too much time on their phones.

Long story short, now we know that it's illegal to use them there for next time we go on vacation. But we didn't know before until that dude on the bike told us. Really these days pretty much anything fun you have to ask yourself if it's legal before you do it.
 
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Pulsar

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You don't launch them in the water you launch them over. Idealy they explode properly and that's that. But if they fail they will fall in the water instead of in the forest or people's houses, causing a fire. Up until a few years ago our official fireworks were always over a lake but now they launch them from the open pit mine over the crowd.

Commercial fireworks don't tend to have plasticized outer wrappers that never break down.

I once went nuclear on a guy I saw using our lake as a golf driving range. Where do you people think all that shit magically goes to?
 

Muse

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Jul 11, 2001
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As a kid it was my favorite holiday, yeah I loved those fireworks assortments we'd get, light in the back yard. Nowadays it's just a nuisance all that noise.
 
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