Why are fireworks illegal up here? - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Hatterasguy · #1 04-04-2008, 02:24 PM

CT sucks we can't get anything good. Just thought I would say that. We always get super illegal fireworks and light them off on my uncles property. And every freaken year the cops come.

Last year we had 3in and 4in mortors, used some sewer pipe buried in the ground to launch them. They were pretty dangerious, but fun.

M80's and 1/4 sticks are hard to get, damn. I used to love cherry bombs when I was in HS, I flushed more than one...

I say they should all be legal, if you are dumb enough and blow your head off sucks to be you.

Chad300tdt · #2 04-04-2008, 02:38 PM

Do a image google search on fireworks injury.

That hand is horrible.

I used to play with m80's as a kid all the time. My dad used to get them and rockets, roman candles, pinwheels, and even a few quarter and half sticks.

One of my favorites was to put an m80 or two under a drywall bucket and watch it launch or shatter.

I remember the half stick left a mini crater in our field with fried worms in it.

DieselAddict · #3 04-04-2008, 02:41 PM

No one cares if you blow your head off. It's all about fire danger, at least over here.

Chad300tdt · #4 04-04-2008, 02:46 PM

I remember being at a 4th of July fireworks show at the beach in Ocean City or Wildwood NJ as a kid. Some of the fireworks blew over the parking lot and caught a car on fire, so the show ended. Too bad ... they were launching rockets that let all these little parachute men fall to the ground. I ran around and caught 2 of them myself. I've never seen any fireworks like that again.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, they probably used an air cannon that I just didn't see. Whatever the case, it was pretty cool as a 7 or 8 year old.

WVOtoGO · #5 04-04-2008, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by DieselAddict

No one cares if you blow your head off. It's all about fire danger, at least over here.

Same here in TX.

We’ve got a zillion other ways to blow our heads off without fireworks.
(We usually leave them for the dumb-a-- politicians though.)
So the bans are usually all about fire hazards.

We personally don’t mess with the big stuff too often. But, the kids can go through a few dozen smoke-balls while flying over Lake Texoma in about 2 minutes time.

Boaters Beware

SwampYankee · #6 04-04-2008, 03:16 PM

We Northern boys can't be trusted with such things. A Southern temperment is needed.

We used have bottle rockets wars as kids. There was a long street behind my house with no houses on it so we'd stand about 200' away from each other and fire away. It really is a wonder we didn't hurt ourselves or catch something on fire.

G-Benz · #7 04-04-2008, 03:19 PM

Fireworks have been pretty much a no-no in almost every state I've lived in recently...now TX. DieselAddict is correct...it's all about the fire hazard.

At least in Kansas and Missouri, the shake (wood) shingles were a frequent landing point for bottle rockets. One of these home would suffer massive fire damage or burn to the ground every summer from errant bottle rockets.

dannym · #8 04-04-2008, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee

We Northern boys can't be trusted with such things. A Southern temperment is needed.

We used have bottle rockets wars as kids. There was a long street behind my house with no houses on it so we'd stand about 200' away from each other and fire away. It really is a wonder we didn't hurt ourselves or catch something on fire.

That's nothing, we would each get a gross of M80's and throw them at each other. Someone got hurt by the wax piece that plugs one end. The worst I ever was someone who got hit by a roman candle. That burn was nasty.

Up north sucks. We can get whatever we want down here. You do have to claim it's for agricultural use though. It really pretty funny around the 4th of July. You got hundreds of people buying fireworks and all of them claiming their farmers. With the State Troopers standing right there.

Danny

Jordan G · #9 04-04-2008, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee

We Northern boys can't be trusted with such things. A Southern temperment is needed.

We used have bottle rockets wars as kids. There was a long street behind my house with no houses on it so we'd stand about 200' away from each other and fire away. It really is a wonder we didn't hurt ourselves or catch something on fire.

200' away? Swamp, that's pathetic

. I agree though, I'm lucky I didn't kill myself. Tinkering with black powder, quarter sticks, etc......I'm quite thankful I have all my appendages in working order.

I can vividly remember the mushroom cloud of flame that a gallon of gas in a milk jug with a 1/4 stick in the top makes.......my old tree house never looked so poignant

. Not wise, not wise at all......but it was quite a rush lighting that sucker and running away.

E150GT · #10 04-04-2008, 03:46 PM

I was always allowed to pop fireworks in Texas, just as long as we were in the county, and not the city.

SwampYankee · #11 04-04-2008, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by dannym

That's nothing, we would each get a gross of M80's and throw them at each other. Someone got hurt by the wax piece that plugs one end. The worst I ever was someone who got hit by a roman candle. That burn was nasty.

Up north sucks. We can get whatever we want down here. You do have to claim it's for agricultural use though. It really pretty funny around the 4th of July. You got hundreds of people buying fireworks and all of them claiming their farmers. With the State Troopers standing right there.

Danny

Crow control devices.

SwampYankee · #12 04-04-2008, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Jordan G

200' away? Swamp, that's pathetic

. I agree though, I'm lucky I didn't kill myself. Tinkering with black powder, quarter sticks, etc......I'm quite thankful I have all my appendages in working order.

I can vividly remember the mushroom cloud of flame that a gallon of gas in a milk jug with a 1/4 stick in the top makes.......my old tree house never looked so poignant

. Not wise, not wise at all......but it was quite a rush lighting that sucker and running away.

Now gasoline is another story...

Dee8go · #13 04-04-2008, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee

We Northern boys can't be trusted with such things. A Southern temperment is needed.
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Hee hee hee. Yeah, RIGHT! We Southerners know how to handle things like fireworks, and we've got the scars to PROVE it!

You can buy all sorts of cool explosiv . . . er, um, I mean neato fireworks in South Carolina. If you're going down I95 through the Carolinas, be sure to stop at Pedro's. He's got LOTS of good stuff.