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Fireworks... your opinion?

Fireworks... your opinion?


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Outside of officially sponsored shows put on by professionals - I would ban them all.
 
They're fun! Been shooting them off all week. I like the bottle rockets the best, too bad they're illegal here but nothing an hour drive to Missouri can't fix. ;)

Yeah, and screw the neighbors and anyone within listening distance, right? What's the difference here between this and cranking up the boombox to max on your front lawn late at night?

Fun for you, but for all those folks trying to catch some uninterrupted sleep before work early tomorrow morn, not so much.
 
I really don't care. It was fun when the kids were young but now, nobody cares one way or the other. If you can't set them off yourself, I don't see the point at all.
 
Yeah, and screw the neighbors and anyone within listening distance, right? What's the difference here between this and cranking up the boombox to max on your front lawn late at night?

Fun for you, but for all those folks trying to catch some uninterrupted sleep before work early tomorrow morn, not so much.

The difference is I don't do it late at night when people are sleeping.
 
I tend to avoid polls that do not include the response I would have checked. In my case, I enjoy fireworks when I do see them however I do not go out of my way to attend each and every fireworks event. And I do not think their use should be restricted to government officials.
You honestly could not think of anything to fit "Other"? Seriously?

I swear, some people...
 
Mexicans love the **** out of fireworks. It's just been nonstop fireworks around here for a week, and probably will be for another week.

In Hawaii, they are crazy...light a whole string of crackers and throw them off the roof of a hotel.
 
I used to have a dog that was a good hunting dog and wasn't fazed by gun fire, but was scared to death of fireworks.

Mine has been around when I fired mine. He didn't shake from that. But the fireworks he just can't deal with. Especially the quarter sticks. He runs and hides under the bed if they pop off like a few at a time. Last night he had a little bit of time to deal with. Today and tonight will be troublesome for him. But I will have all the TV's in the House up loud and will do my best to help him. Even if it means jamming the stereo and making my neighbors windows shake.
 
I like professional shows myself. Some of the stuff they can make those sky rockets do these days is quite impressive.



But individual fireworks is fine too.... freedom: play at your own risk.



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I live in a hilly area surrounded by trees, we have been experiencing a drought and it was 100 degrees yesterday. A few days ago, our venerable old baseball stadium burned to the ground replete with a wall of flames estimated at nearly 100 feet high. Luckily, it was not in my hilly, forested area, otherwise the fire would have consumed too many houses to count.

When our city council voted to ban fireworks in certain areas, they did so, not to limit people's ability to play at their OWN risk, but to play at the risk of others.
 
If people would use common sense I would like them more. As is, I prefer organized fireworks, if at all. They are nothing more than a nuisance to me, don't care to watch, never ever buy any.
 
Yeah, and screw the neighbors and anyone within listening distance, right? What's the difference here between this and cranking up the boombox to max on your front lawn late at night?

Fun for you, but for all those folks trying to catch some uninterrupted sleep before work early tomorrow morn, not so much.

The fireworks do not bother me. The boom boxes do. The kids and young adults that install them in their cars are morons. Not only does it damage their hearing, it eventually vibrates loose many of the bolts that hold the car body together.
 
Mexicans love the **** out of fireworks. It's just been nonstop fireworks around here for a week, and probably will be for another week.

Absolutely true. It will be a war zone in Southern California tonight. Seriously. 99% illegal. Hey, what's another law to break?
 
You honestly could not think of anything to fit "Other"? Seriously?

I swear, some people...

Don't swear. It's rude! :mrgreen::ind:
 
I love watching fireworks, and I'll have a free show tonight and probably tomorrow night too because I live in the country, where it's legal to set them off. Lots of "pasture parties" tonight too, I'm sure. But there is a 20% chance of rain I'm hoping for so I don't have to hose down my roof.

And I won't touch fireworks myself except sparklers. I didn't listen to my parents when I was 13 and nearly blew off my hand with a firecracker. And that was that.
 
I like setting them off a lot more than I like watching them. Watching professional shows is almost never worth dealing with the crowd.

I limit setting them off to the 4th, and New Year's Eve though, and get annoyed at the people who set them off for weeks leading up to the 4th.
 
And they will too.
 
Fireworks are dangerous.

Here's a small example: Haywire fireworks fly into Colo. crowd, injure 9 at show - NY Daily News

No matter who's setting them off fireworks are always dangerous.

No one said Freedom was free of danger. You just can't regulate accidents.
A shell accidentally exploded in its tube instead of in the sky, sending a rack of shells to tip over at the show in Avon, about 100 miles west of Denver, Town Manager Virginia Egger said.
"The crowd was exceptional in its calm response to what could have been a much more serious incident," Deputy Chief Greg Daly said in a statement, noting it was the first "failure in production" of the "spectacular fireworks display" in 29 years.
 
Wrong.

You can totally prevent 'accidents' with fireworks by staying far away from them.

Pretty frickin' simple.

:lol:

You are taking your ridiculous to further extremes. So the fireworks will magically set themselves up? That way everyone will always be far away therefore zero accidents. Then again I did not say anything about prevent Okay carry on.
 
I live in a hilly area surrounded by trees, we have been experiencing a drought and it was 100 degrees yesterday. A few days ago, our venerable old baseball stadium burned to the ground replete with a wall of flames estimated at nearly 100 feet high. Luckily, it was not in my hilly, forested area, otherwise the fire would have consumed too many houses to count.

When our city council voted to ban fireworks in certain areas, they did so, not to limit people's ability to play at their OWN risk, but to play at the risk of others.



:shrug: a municipality can ban something for safety reasons if they want.


The risk is there yes. Freedom and safety are often opposing variables; how much of one vs the other is an ongoing debate.
 
I live in a hilly area surrounded by trees, we have been experiencing a drought and it was 100 degrees yesterday. A few days ago, our venerable old baseball stadium burned to the ground replete with a wall of flames estimated at nearly 100 feet high. Luckily, it was not in my hilly, forested area, otherwise the fire would have consumed too many houses to count.

When our city council voted to ban fireworks in certain areas, they did so, not to limit people's ability to play at their OWN risk, but to play at the risk of others.

I completely forgot about the drought. I wonder how anywhere in California can justify the use of fireworks.
 
I completely forgot about the drought. I wonder how anywhere in California can justify the use of fireworks.

I saw on the news last night, that on the average, 18,000 fires are started in the USA by fireworks every July 4th.

When I was a teen in NE, we used to drive down to Missouri every year and buy M-80s in a plain brown bag from under the counter. The last year that we went down there, we got imitation ones that were an M-80 outside red packaging with a lady finger firecracker hidden inside. We were bummed. When the ladyfinger didn't pop, it would just shoot out a ton of sparks, Like the one that I threw into the tall dry grass at a favorite lake resort in NE (teen hangout).

Trees 40 feet tall were ablaze. Thank God that the fire fighters were able to put that fire out before it burned up the whole place. I've always felt bad about that big mistake.

EDIT: I think I post this every year. lol
 
Mexicans love the **** out of fireworks. It's just been nonstop fireworks around here for a week, and probably will be for another week.

That's almost exactly what I was going to say. I've not figured out why, but Christmas, New Years, Cinco de Mayo, and the weeks leading up to and after are filled around here with fireworks going off. I seriously don't get it, but it's safer than some countries, mostly in the ME iirc, where they shoot guns in the air to celebrate. So I don't get excited about it, just confused.
 
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