# So, fireworks are a thing for Labor Day weekend now? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 6, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fireworks-are-a-thing-for-labor-day-weekend-now/919914 "2020-09-06T01:05:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fireworks-are-a-thing-for-labor-day-weekend-now/919914/21 "2020-09-07T17:12:21Z")
Fewer than usual here over the weekend. Maybe some people have cancelled that sort of party for the Year\* of Covid and don’t feel like setting off fireworks when it’s just their family. > [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Our police are sensible and level-headed and leave this alone, even though it’s technically illegal. Or are leaving it alone because, off-duty, they’re attending one of the parties that goes in for fireworks. \*yeah, I hope that doesn’t need to be plural. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fireworks-are-a-thing-for-labor-day-weekend-now/919914/22 "2020-09-07T17:32:28Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > … leaving it alone because, off-duty, they’re attending one of the parties that goes in for fireworks … Ever see Foul Play? There is that one scene where Chevy Chase’s character, a police officer, offers Goldie Hawn’s character some weed, commenting “Cops have the best”. By which I mean, if fireworks are illegal and you could be busted for having them, how much of that stuff ends up “in the evidence room”? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fireworks-are-a-thing-for-labor-day-weekend-now/919914/23 "2020-09-07T22:34:59Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Or are leaving it alone because, off-duty, they’re attending one of the parties that goes in for fireworks. You could right about the partying-this is my police. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wzuhxHT0H6c/hqdefault.jpg "Lincoln Nebraska Cops Dance with Peaceful Protestors") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzuhxHT0H6c) ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fireworks-are-a-thing-for-labor-day-weekend-now/919914/24 "2020-09-07T22:36:59Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > this is my police Your police are doing pretty well there. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fireworks-are-a-thing-for-labor-day-weekend-now/919914/25 "2020-09-07T23:05:02Z")
No fireworks here. The law is pretty strict, that they can only be shot off on July 4th, and NYE. And if you set them off on the latter, you have to have saved them up from the 4th, because the week before then is the only time they can be sold in town. Of course you could go elsewhere to get the stuff, but that’s a hassle. I love fireworks, as long as folks use them safely. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fireworks-are-a-thing-for-labor-day-weekend-now/919914/26 "2020-09-08T01:07:10Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > The law is pretty strict, that they can only be shot off on July 4th, and NYE The law’s pretty strict here too: nearly all fireworks are forbidden entirely except as set off by professionals at licensed shows. It’s just, in this area, one of the least obeyed laws around; and one of the least enforced. Custom outweighs law, generally. Fireworks are illegal, and local custom says they’re fine. Women going topless in public is legal, but ain’t nobody doing it around here. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fireworks-are-a-thing-for-labor-day-weekend-now/919914/27 "2020-09-08T01:27:12Z")
No giant, earth-shattering Ka-Booms tonight, but umpteen million little pops and crackles. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fireworks-are-a-thing-for-labor-day-weekend-now/919914/28 "2020-09-08T01:58:41Z")
Marvin, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fireworks-are-a-thing-for-labor-day-weekend-now/919914/29 "2020-09-08T04:04:44Z")
I don’t think I heard another explosion all weekend, so if there were people setting them off, I didn’t hear them. > [@ThisIsTheEnd](#): > > I had two brothers that were both born on 1/31. I counted backwards and I could never figure out what was so special about 4/16, neither one of my parents were tax preparers. As much as this likely a reference to a nearby date with significant meaning and not particularly about tax preparers and April 16, I am an accountant at a local family-owned firm that does mostly tax preparation, and the guy in charge now was born on April 16. At least it’s easy for everyone to remember his birthday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-fireworks-are-a-thing-for-labor-day-weekend-now/919914.md?page=1)