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After the 9/11 attacks, we began to hear that cliche about how “the terrorists will have won” if we let ourselves become so consumed with fear that we no longer act rationally. Well, the future is now. That’s my reaction to that decision to cancel the annual Labor Day parade in South Plainfield because a guy left some fireworks in a bar in Sea Bright. When I got an email from the Governor’s Office Monday morning saying this year’s parade had been canceled, I figured it might be because of the weather. -snip- Nope. It soon turned out that the...

<p>A Middlesex County man is in police custody after several pipe bomb-like devices were found near the route of a Labor Day parade that the governor was set to attend Monday.</p> <p>Officials detained a man on Monday morning after they found “over half a dozen” devices on his large property near South Plainfield’s Labor Day Parade route, according to a senior law enforcement official with the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.</p>

PASSAIC — The state chapter of a prominent Jewish civil rights group had condemned as a “hateful act” an incident in which a Clifton man is alleged to have thrown lit firecrackers outside the Ahavas Israel Synagogue on Saturday night. The Anti-Defamation League on Monday decried the alleged attack, calling it an act of anti-Semitism and calling for Rizek Musheisen to be prosecuted “to the fullest extent of the law.” Following a hearing in Passaic Municipal Court Monday, Musheisen posted 10 percent of his $5,000 bail set by Judge Debbie Klugler Irwin in cash, and was released from the city...

The Firecrackers named Best Touring Act/Halftime Show of 2009 Video: Half-time show at the U.S. Naval Academy(almost 10 million - yes, million hits!)

I hope this cracks you up. :)

lets try to get all consumer fireworks legalised in all 50 states in the USA write to you law makers in you capital in your state tell them whay you want fireworks legalised in your states

FireworksOhio's law is a dud         Did you hear that Ben Franklin was busted for setting off bottle rockets yesterday? He was sampling Sam Adams' latest batch when the neighbors called the cops. Patrick Henry, who was grilling brats and watching the rockets' red glare, said: “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me cherry bombs, or give me death.”         OK, so I'm stretching the truth like county fair taffy. Everyone knows the police do nothing about fireworks complaints on July Fourth.        ...

,b>Firecrackers Found in Plane Lavatory HONG KONG (AP) - Seven firecrackers were discovered in the lavatory of a United Airlines jet that flew from Chicago to Hong Kong with 335 people aboard, but they were too small to have caused any major damage if they had exploded, officials said Thursday. The firecrackers were found on Flight 895 during a routine inspection of the Boeing 747-400 after it landed Tuesday night. They did not have fuses, and there was no other apparent way to detonate them, said Airport Authority spokesman Chris Donnolley. United spokeswoman Chris Nardella said United had not changed...