Back in the early ‘50’s, my dad put a coke bottle in the mud creek bank and lit off a big bottle rocket...
The coke bottle tilted in the mud and the rocket went under a neighbors car in his carport and exploded...
The neighbor came running out with a whistle and a Civil Defense hat on and started hollering about a Chinese attack!!!!
This was just after the Korean Conflict...
It took dad about 20 minutes and 2 or 3 Budweisers to calm hime down....
LOL.
Our neighbor had a fireworks stand. He brought over a box of a variety of items. I stood up a bottle rocket in the box and lit it. It fell back into the box and soon everything was exploding. It was near our garage-fortunately no cars exploded and no one was hurt. A few days later the neighbor brought over another box of firecrackers. I was delighted; my parents were not.
Oh and the neighbor was a policeman. Several of them sold fireworks on the side just before the 4th. It was sort of legal in North Dakota at the time.