Posted on 07/08/2019 6:09:07 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
We used to do that but it was only with the now-defunct bottle rockets, not mortars.
Bottle rockets! Those were the days!
One summer back around 1972, dad bought a firework stand. What a great summer. Don’t think he made any money but I had black cats and bottle rockets for over a year after he got rid of the stand.
Excess inventory!!
When I was a teenager we use to have bottle rocket wars. Basically we would build a couple impromptu “trenches” on either side of field with whatever obstacles we could find such as tree branches or boxes and then lob bottle rockets at our opponents trench. Thankfully the worst that ever happened is few minor burns on my arms and shoulders and slight temporary hearing loss from having one blow up close to my ear. We did have one guy’s hair catch on fire, leaving a rather large burnt patch. (we started wearing helmets after that).
Rednecks with paychecks!
Based on the pictures/videos in the articles it was Dindu Nuffins
Unwritten law in the South: No one gets arrested for big fireworks on July 4th, unless there is serious injury or property damage.
Well that splains it!
The sad thing is that I live outside the city limits of a large Texas town and fireworks are legal out here. For about the last ten years (basically since my kids have grown up), I have heard exactly zero fireworks set off during the day. Zero. When we were kids, we lived for the Fourth of July. We would spend several days after the 4th blowing up stuff with fire crackers and having bottle rocket wars. Most of the things we did would get us written up by the SPCA these days but none of us turned out to be mass murderers. I think.
The story at the end of the link is the most Arkansas s-—t I have ever read. Peak Arkansas...
Lol! I was thinking that too. I’m in Missouri though, so I can see Arkansas from here.
Good old bottle rockets. Tons of fun and basically harmless. Plus they teach you about physics — you know, acceleration and stuff.
We used empty pop bottles as improvised aiming devices!
No one ever got hurt that I remember. Even had a few firecrackers explode in my hand ( ok many)!
You just got over it.
There were never the big mortar rounds available like they sell today.
But man there were some politically incorrect fireworks sold back then!!
The Chinese did not care what they printed!!
Yep, we shot them out of PVC pipes complete with grips duct taped onto them.
It occurs to me that playing with fireworks is good training for assessing and dealing with risk. If we weren’t doing that we probably would have been doing something else somewhat dangerous.
Yep, dindu nuffins showin off dey hi IQs (crap website, btw).
Darwin Award winners, all.
Evolution wins again
Yeah, I’m in Texas about 2 hours down the freeway from Texarkana...
I like Missouri. It looks like really nice after you have driven through either Arkansas or Oklahoma for a few hours.
Bet the alcohol had more to do with it than the fireworks.
Long bearded Ozark mountain boys? I doubt it.
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