OT: Fireworks

[Kitaman]

Im at the point were I'm running a YouTube video with the sound of heavy rain. It drowns out the firework.

We've been Yarders together for decades and you're keeping the link to yourself.

Of course i could fish for myself, but I'm apt to get a blue gill which is ill equipped for M80 protection.

 

[Cardiac]

 

[Cardiac]

 

[Cardiac]

Just lots of shady things

 

[Horatio]

I remember when you had to go south to purchase fireworks and then sneak them up north along with cheap cigarettes. I don’t know when/where legal “up north” fireworks started but I don’t understand why “up north”people are surprised

 

[Ratso]

philly’s been doing this forever

at least the last 15 yrs i’ve been here

last nite was lit

 

[Devland]

Im at the point were I'm running a YouTube video with the sound of heavy rain. It drowns out the firework.

Good god! With my prostate problems I get up enough during the night. If I started playing you tube videos of heavy rain, I may never sleep again. It would drown out more than just fireworks

 

[Waquoit]

I started wearing those soft foam ear plugs when I got the C-PAP. I don't leave home without them now. Perfect on a plane.

 

[gtcam]

Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin described the fireworks this year as "unprecedented."

This guy is a total tool
He knows why and who

 

[HooperScooper]

The dramatic increase in fireworks across the country has fueled wild conspiracy theories. However, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, most people — from law enforcement officials to fireworks sellers and buyers — say the explanation is simple, as The New York Times recently reported:

After months of quarantine and social distancing, people are bored, and setting off fireworks for fun — and seeing fireworks just makes fireworks enthusiasts want to set off more fireworks.

What Boston is doing about the 'out of control' fireworks

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh says it’s time to get “serious” about the recent explosion in illegal fireworks. “The fireworks situation is out of control, not just here in Boston,” but across the country, Walsh said during an appearance Friday afternoon on WGBH’s “Boston Public Radio.” “I hear them...

www.boston.com

 

[Jaker]

Fireworks are fun.

 

[Dove]

Every night in my drought ridden, heavily wooded farm town (well, lots of dry fields).

There will be some very serious fires soon.

Thoughts and prayers and Godspeed.

 

[Mano]

Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin described the fireworks this year as "unprecedented."

This guy is a total tool
He knows why and who

DB statement

 

[XLCenterFan]

Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin described the fireworks this year as "unprecedented."

This guy is a total tool
He knows why and who

Luke's a great guy. I've shared a few drinks with him. He's easier to talk to and more relatable than many politicians. I was only a Hartford resident very briefly, but I do many things throughout the city, and I think he's done a heck of a job. He's performed well as Mayor.

 

[dvegas]

Back in the UConn days a couple of my buddies and I took a ride from Stamford down to Chinatown a few weeks before the Fourth of July. We drove around a bit on the back (west) side asking people out the car window where we could buy fireworks.

Finally, a Chinese kids tells us "two *d kids on Baxter Street). We are thinking huh? but swing back around and drive up Baxter Street where we find two Italian kids selling fireworks. The heavy Chinese accent threw us off Lol. Good stuff if I recall...