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Bottle rockets thrown at demonstrators in Westminster, Maryland
WBAL TV11 (Baltimore) ^ | Saliqa A. Khan and David Collins

Posted on 07/17/2018 6:25:06 AM PDT by foxfield

Two people were injured when bottle rockets were thrown at them during a demonstration in Carroll County, Westminster police said.

Police were called around 1:30 p.m. Saturday to an assault on Main Street.

Two women were participating in the Westminster Patriots Resist Rally across the street from the Westminster branch of the Carroll County Public Library System around 1 p.m. when a vehicle drove by and they heard a loud bang, police said.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: assault; carrollcounty; maryland; resist; rocket; theleft; westminster
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My town. Story does't pass smell test. Maybe it's just me.
1 posted on 07/17/2018 6:25:06 AM PDT by foxfield
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To: foxfield
Good thing we still have a (supposedly) secret ballot.

ML/NJ

2 posted on 07/17/2018 6:29:05 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: foxfield

Why would one ‘throw’ a bottle rocket? Aren’t they self-propelled?


3 posted on 07/17/2018 6:29:16 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)
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To: foxfield

Something similar happened to a bunch of us at a pro-Trump rally. The libs were throwing firecrackers at us. We picked them up, lit them and threw them back.


4 posted on 07/17/2018 6:31:35 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: foxfield

Bottle rockets are fired, not thrown.


5 posted on 07/17/2018 6:32:35 AM PDT by bert ((K. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... In our cities will be burning))
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To: foxfield

First off, they shouldn’t be using the monicker “Patriots”, because they’re left wingers pushing for open borders and universal healthcare. That ain’t no Patriot.

Second, no one should be tossing anything like bottle rockets at them. If that was someone from our side I’m really mad at them. Flip them a bird, sure. Throw a few facts at them, absolutely. But no explosives.


6 posted on 07/17/2018 6:34:33 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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Rockets red glare? Bombs bursting in air?


7 posted on 07/17/2018 6:34:41 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Delta 21

“Lots of bombs in the air.....”


8 posted on 07/17/2018 6:36:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bert

“Bottle rockets are fired, not thrown.”

Never tossed a 12-pak “grenade” of Black Cat bottle rockets?


9 posted on 07/17/2018 6:37:09 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Delta 21

Rockets red glare? Bombs bursting in air?

Our Flag was still there!


10 posted on 07/17/2018 6:39:26 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

Gives you some insight into relative IQs, doesn’t it?


11 posted on 07/17/2018 6:43:19 AM PDT by GingisK
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Gives you some insight into relative IQs, doesn’t it?

I think the more 'appropriate' phrase is 'low information'...

12 posted on 07/17/2018 6:54:03 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)
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My town. Story does't pass smell test. Maybe it's just me.

This is predictable. The longer this goes on, eventually elements on the other side will act out also.....which is what the hole point of ginning this all up has been for. They want a destabilized US.

13 posted on 07/17/2018 6:54:33 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: FatherofFive
The libs were throwing firecrackers at us. We picked them up, lit them and threw them back.

You owe me a keyboard.

14 posted on 07/17/2018 6:55:04 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Actually no.

However with a 24” length of 3/4” conduit with the end taped, have very accurately fired bottle rockets precisely on target at a considerable range.


15 posted on 07/17/2018 7:15:40 AM PDT by bert ((K. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... In our cities will be burning))
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To: bert

Love bottle rockets.


16 posted on 07/17/2018 7:18:26 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: treetopsandroofs

My grandson was just here and we fired off a lot of bottle rockets . They were left from a mega purchase at least thirty five years ago. Most still fired effectively. They were like money burning a hole in his pocket. He bugged me incessantly from the minute he arrived “when are we going to set off the bottle rockets grandad”

The event produced boasts from my 50 year old son about bottle rocket exploits previously unknown to me.

Next year for his 4th of July visit we will buy lots more. The fun per $$ is hard to beat.

For those in places where fireworks are illegal, we have a mega store where customers buy fireworks literally by the shopping cart full. The purchases easily run into the hundreds of $$. A near professional ariel display can easily be produced.


17 posted on 07/17/2018 7:28:29 AM PDT by bert ((K. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... In our cities will be burning))
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To: CaptainPhilFan

Have you noticed the dems using “patriots” in their word salad lately? It’s by design.


18 posted on 07/17/2018 7:30:31 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: bert

I never let myself run out of them for the same reason, grandsons (my granddaughter only likes the pop-its).

Also lit off 20-year-old large rockets with sometimes funny results a couple weeks ago, e.g., one whined slowly upwards for about 20 feet and then moaned its finale.

Thanks for sharing!


19 posted on 07/17/2018 7:40:50 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“Have you noticed the dems using “patriots” in their word salad lately?”

The worst of them have to preface it with “deeply”.

Only Hussein Heads who love BJ’s wife are buying it, and they’re already bought.


20 posted on 07/17/2018 7:42:43 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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