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Fireworks-filled van explodes on California freeway (Barstow)
AP on SFGate.com ^ | 7/2/15 | Associated Press

Posted on 07/02/2015 5:53:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

BARSTOW, Calif. (AP) — A box van packed with fireworks exploded and burned to the ground on a Southern California freeway Thursday, clogging the main road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas at the beginning of the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

The Chevrolet van caught fire shortly before 1:30 p.m. Thursday on southbound Interstate 15 near the Nevada border, briefly closing southbound lanes for nearly an hour and backing up traffic several miles into Nevada, said California Highway Patrol Officer Ryan Camara. No one was injured.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: US: California; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: barstow; boom; california; chevrolet; explodes; fireworks; freeway; interstate15; lasvegas; losangeles; nevada
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To: COBOL2Java

I quit cold turkey 41 days ago. Part of me wants to catch that and finish it off.


21 posted on 07/02/2015 6:08:52 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: x1stcav

There’s also an Indian reservation up toward Mesquite, Nev., where one can get fireworks.


22 posted on 07/02/2015 6:09:02 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: mylife
15, Still there is nothing out there.

Just don't go off on one of the dirt roads leading to a mobile home, I mean meth lab, out in the desert. the place is crawling with them.

23 posted on 07/02/2015 6:11:17 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: COBOL2Java

” Here, hold my joint...”


24 posted on 07/02/2015 6:13:53 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Riley

Hang in there, FRiend, cold turkey is how you quit. You have to make up your mind to do it and you will, did it 19 years ago.


25 posted on 07/02/2015 6:13:58 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: doorgunner69

Yessir, but when I was there they wanted to bust me for smoking a cigarette outdoors,in the middle of Bum**** nowhere!


26 posted on 07/02/2015 6:14:02 PM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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To: mylife

That has to be the most movement of any kind that has happened on that stretch of road, maybe in history.


27 posted on 07/02/2015 6:15:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: mylife

Yeah....it’s just that I don’t trust WHERE the LIGHTER is going to THROW IT!!!


28 posted on 07/02/2015 6:17:02 PM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: fhayek

Mind your language, please; there are ladies present.


29 posted on 07/02/2015 6:17:20 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: NormsRevenge
But, But, I thought fireworks were illegal in the Demokratik Peoples Republik????
30 posted on 07/02/2015 6:24:39 PM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yessir


31 posted on 07/02/2015 6:25:51 PM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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To: goodnesswins

I snub mine in the ash tray or the dirt or the bottom of my shoe and I pack out what I pack in even in a ****hole like Barstow.


32 posted on 07/02/2015 6:27:52 PM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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To: NormsRevenge

Well he, lit a can

and blew up my Chevy Van

and that’s all right with me....


33 posted on 07/02/2015 6:29:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: goodnesswins

Whoops, I was referring to cigges and you were referring to fire snappers. LOL


34 posted on 07/02/2015 6:29:11 PM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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To: mylife

Man, that stretch is tailor made for a carjacker....


35 posted on 07/02/2015 6:29:24 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

There is NOTHING out there.


36 posted on 07/02/2015 6:30:34 PM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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To: mylife

For SURE!

LOL


37 posted on 07/02/2015 6:31:31 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: jazusamo

32 years ago - not a problem


38 posted on 07/02/2015 6:33:10 PM PDT by telstar12.5 (...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

There is the worlds largest thermometer between Barstow and Vegas, so I fib..

8th wonder of the world!

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2893


39 posted on 07/02/2015 6:40:00 PM PDT by mylife ("The roar of the masses could be farts")
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To: NormsRevenge

I’ve put on many fireworks displays. No one ever got hurt. In a small city I even shot off fireworks (including 1.5 inch mortars ) in a friends backyard within 60 feet of a police station. I think they were secretly cheering. Let freedom ring.


40 posted on 07/02/2015 6:41:02 PM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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