Posted on 07/03/2008 3:38:31 PM PDT by Textide
Just thought I'd post a thread where the various fireworks laws, regulations, etc. could be posted.
Nice links to each State's fireworks laws. Here's their Safety Video
Various histories of fireworks....
Pyrouniverse.com (lol) History of Fireworks
Unfortunately, I live in one of the idiotic “Safe & Sane” zones. Of course, I can always drive over to SC and set off some there.
South Carolina is the Promised Land of fireworks if you live near it. And there’s two big fireworks holidays a year—the Fourth, and New Years’. I spent the “Y2K” New Years Eve at my wife’s tenth-floor studio apartment in Columbia (before we got married) and come midnight, the entire western horizon lit up like Baghdad in 1991.
I love a state that still gives you the freedom to blow stuff up.
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You too? I always drive to Alabama and load up on the good stuff for the fourth of July and New Years.
Yup. I’m about 20 min. south of Augusta, so it’s not so bad - “Wacky Wayne’s” (great name, BTW) is right across the border, and has decent prices.
Its like that here in Wichita. Every 4th there’s a cacaphony of noise that echoes across the city. Not to mention there are probably thousands that purchase near-commercial grade mortars and shoot them up. I love it.
Of course the local fishwrap prints editorials against fireworks every 4th as well.
I live in the People’s Republic of Maryland. My hand to God, they seriously send out the Bomb Squad if you’re having too much fun on the Fourth of July.
A couple of years ago some neighbors were putting on a nice little display at the end of the cul-de-sac. Some spoilsport apparently called the cops. During a pause in the action we saw a big black Hummer with its headlights off and its windows blacked out crawling up the street. The crest of the Bomb Squad was on the side of the driver’s door. Can you imagine?! Surely we as Americans have a God-given Constitutionally-protected right to blow our hands off if we want, right?!
I hate this state. I feel like I’m living in Tibet.
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