I’m all for fireworks on the 4th…before midnight. Its silly that you can buy nice fireworks in certain parts of the country but not others. For instance, I live in PA. There are fireworks stores here (few and far between) but they can’t sell to PA residents. So people from NJ and DC drive here, buy them, and in turn sell them to residents of PA. So silly. Its almost as bad as the liquor laws here.
But that’s too early. In some places it’s not even really dark at 10 p.m. at this time of year. How much fun is it to watch fireworks in daylight when you can hardly see them?
UnuMondo
Perhaps I’d make an exception to the 10PM (well, I’d go with 11PM) rule IF I LIVED IN EFFING ICELAND! On the 4th around here it is plenty dark by nine and the local display starts at 9:20. It’s over by 10 and then the amateurs have an hour for their fun. His display started at 9 and lasted three hours and twenty five minutes, during which I think he blew up more fireworks than the Jaycees did in the town display. I have no idea how it could have stayed interesting and fun for that long, and I LIKE to blow stuff up.
I don’t think it’s silly.
Yes, it is kinda silly that it can vary town to town, but not different parts of the country. Here in northern VA you can buy fireworks. Wheee! Fireworks. Where I grew up, in Arizona, you can’t. There is a very VERY good reason for that, and if you need reminding of it just check out the news. Then go look at the statistics and see how many fires are caused Every. Single. Year. by the official fireworks… then tell me that people buying fireworks willy nilly would be a good idea.
A few years ago another neighbor was shooting off bottle rockets during a drought. Set another neighbor’s lawn and bushes on fire.
Moron.
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Heck, I helped out with a professional fireworks show in early May. For the second year. And next year I’m doing it again. beam
Having said that, I will not EVER do the stupid “fireworks shows” that people do in their own backyards on the 4th. I’ve played with the big guns and I know what they can do. People catch on fire. People get cut. My friend told me about one year when the lead pyro on their team got fiberglass embedded in his leg when a shell exploded while it was still in the tube. And the same damn thing can happen with South Carolina/Wisconsin/Wherever you get them store fireworks. :mad:THIS SHIT’S DANGEROUS PEOPLE.:mad: When I see people setting off their bottle rockets and spinners and what-have-yous in heavily treed and housed areas without even a simple HOSEPIPE near them, I want to beat them severely about the head and shoulders. It’s their own og-damned fault if their houses burn down and they lose a hand. Fuckers.
Hmm…possible injury, noise pollution, fire hazard, among other things. These “Red-Blooded Americans” can quite easily and literally be so by this route.
Not all people see fit to take advantage of this “ONE NIGHT of the year” business, as cited by the various posts in this thread.
That’s because they are un-American wussies!!
OpalCat, you sort of missed the central idiocy of the PA rules, I think. If you are from PA, you can’t buy fireworks in PA, but if you’re from another state, you can buy all you want. They make you show ID at the counter, and as long as you’re an out-of-state resident, you can buy.
It’s as if fireworks are too dangerous for PA people to use, but it is OK if people from neighboring states get burnt up. Bizarre.
Ohio and Michigan have laws identical to those you describe, Cheesesteak.
Been there. Done that! 
And it does not seem to matter that the works are illegal in the buyers state.
Makes no sense, but it is necessary for the required blasting.
AND to the poster that said this shit is dangerous. NO SHIT! :smack:
Not exactly. In Ohio they don’t care where you live, you just have to sign a waiver that you are going to take them out of the state to set them off.
FWIW to those folks who think it is ok for any joe schmoe to buy aerial fireworks and set them off. How do you feel about people firing their guns in the air on holidays?
You know, you can either put a smile on your face and enjoy the complimentary fireworks display or you can get on the horn and whine to the cops about how the neighbors are robbing you of your valuable sleep with their unauthorized display.
If you choose the latter, at least acknowledge that you are one step closer to becoming the crotchety old man next door who won’t let kids retrieve baseballs from his yard.
That’s the whole point! There’s a reason we don’t celebrate the 4th with Nerf[sup]TM[/sup] toys!