What's not to like about boom boom?
Posted on 06/27/2006 11:43:15 AM PDT by dead
Followup to N.Y. Cops In Pa. Fireworks Stakeouts (NYPD seizes cars of NYers who legally buy fireworks in PA)
New Yorkers are learning the hard way that an initiative to keep July 4th firecrackers out of the city means just what the warning signs on the highway say: "Transport fireworks, lose your vehicle."
The NYPD has now corralled 58 vehicles under Mayor Bloomberg's fireworks crackdown, officials said...
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To get the message out, the city has eight 9-by-12-foot electronic signs that are rolled around the five boroughs and placed primarily at highways, bridges and tunnels.
"We're doing this to deter people from transporting illegal fireworks," said a law-enforcement source.
Police said 161 calls had been made to 311 during the initiative, although it is not clear how many calls led directly to vehicle seizures.
The mayor's office said more than 770 cases of illegal fireworks have been confiscated by the NYPD Vice Enforcement Division in conjunction with the city's Joint Fireworks Taskforce and more than 60 people have been arrested for possessing or trafficking illegal fireworks.
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That should read "It worked several times," not "I worked several times," although I *have.*
Probably should have mentioned we were both well into our 40s at the time and the GI Joe Jeep was used, but not a collectible. That one was still home in its wrapper, lol.
The above only applies to real men of course, not the metro-sexual wussies we hear so much about.
What's not to like about boom boom?
Light fuse
Thing go boom
Me like
Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!
"They go BOOOM! and blowed up real good!" That's all that needs to be said...
To a large extent it's a "guy thing". Guys just like engaging in activities that involve loud noises and a certain amount of danger
Like giving the wrong response when your wife asks "Honey does this make me look fat?"
What if you come by bus or train?
Does that include injuries from ladder matches in pro wrestling?
Fireworks were illegal where I grew up as well in NC. But each year when we went to the beach in SC, I would buy some and sneak them back home in the car under a seat or something. One year I got caught by my parents. End of that nice setup, otherwise I might have a job blowing stuff up today as well. :-)
Why do women leave the toilet seat down?
Didn't anybody ever flush a cherry bomb down the toilet in your high school?
There are 4 things a smart woman never denies her man:
1. A warm welcome
2. A hot supper
3. A cold beer, and
4. Things that go BOOM!
:-)
I'm sorry, Nik. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Seriousl: if it was just the boom-boom, it would get boring. I get more boom-boom from high powered rifles, and shotguns, and even with that there's the terminal effects that I'm really interested in.
No ... it's painting the sky with fire.
Yep nobody sells m-80's anymore. Thats where I make my own comes in;)
Not true, Maryland legalized ground based class c fireworks the last year Glendening was Governor. As I've always said thats his greatest accomplishment.
That's another thing you need to understand about men.
From birth till late twenties, guys think they're immortal. After that we become mortal, but we only believe that something some other idiot does will get us killed.
Thus, put a 7 yr old boy in your situation: "Cool! I hear the fingers are haunted and will poke your eye out while you're asleep! Etc."
Put a 37 yr old man in that situation: "Dumbass lighting that in his own basement. He shoulda thrown the cherry bomb in the toilet at school like we used to!"
DISCLAIMER: No offense to the de-fingered digitally-challenged kid, or to your permanently imprinted psyche. This is another reason why you ladies are elevated and respected as the "fairer sex."
Hear, hear. We'd go up north and light all kinds of stuff in the woods back in the 1970s. Wisconsin has banned most of the good stuff since then.
2000.
Years ago we used to go out in the country and do stuff with ditching dynamite. It's too bad we didn't have video
cameras in those days. Once we had a dinnette and chairs set up in this field, plates forks spoons etc, on each plate was a hot dog bun with a stick of dynamite in it.
Kaboooooom, awesome, then we had this large paper maschae
figure of a sultan from some parade, we filled his head with several sticks, Kabooooooon!
I spent the 4th of july one year in New York City with two
buddies I knew in Nam , what a hoot. The streets were covered with chinese newspaper, when someone lit off firecrackers, it wasn't just a pack or string but a full block!!! My one friend lived on the edge of Harlem, and we
ended up getting really stoned on the roof of his building while black kids on the ground were shooting roman candles
up at us, we of course replied with cherrybombs and other
assorted pyrotechnices, all to the beat of "Hot town, summer in the city" and much laughter.
Jeeeeez, even that was twenty years ago, we felt pretty good
we had made it through and had a future or so we thought.
The guy whose appartment was in Harlem, went on to be a heroin addict, and I haven't been in touch with either of
them since.
Still July fourth in NYC is something to be experienced.
Just imagine a hundred years ago, towns and villages would
bring out their cannon and fire for effect or the blacksmith
would "shoot the anvil" which is just about as loud and as
dangerous, but what fun to see that 150 lb anvil go spinning up several hundred feet!!! Awesome.
We still do it today at blacksmith get togethers.
Old Geeeeezer Bump.
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