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Well, not all of them are illegal. Just the cool stuff.
Pretty much anytime we see Gabe or Tycho as kids in flashbacks, I get a kick out of it.
We only get the chance to buy and ignite them for about 48 hours every year, at new years' eve. And since I've been scraping for money for years, and trying to feed my pets and keep them from harm and anxt, I try to not murder people who blow 1700 dollars/euros worth of powder and instead stay in to comfort the dog. The cats couldn't care less, thank god.
Most of the time, reading jippee's posts feels like he's posting from another planet or even a different solar system.
before that, it was an outright ban on anything that was remotely fun
so the majority of my childhood was sparklers and black snakes...
I hadn't noticed that. That's funny.
At least we can have laser light shows!
hear, hear.
Why freeze your as off when your demented neighbour has just invested a fuckillion amount of money into a lot of red exploding chinese paper without warning you you should have invested in industrial-sized ear protectors.
And then waiting 4 months for the ice and snow to thaw out so people can have the street restored to its natural colour...
Most of the time, reading jippee's posts feels like he's posting from another planet or even a different solar system.
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I suppose I wasn't supposed to hold bottle rockets either, or time them so when I threw them they would shoot out of my hand directly at my friends. Man I miss Washington state...
Also Gabe JR standing in the kiddie pool in case that sparkler gets out of hand.
He didn't say they were lighting them at an inconsiderate time. And pets? Really?
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Some dogs chase things.
Back in high school, we had gotten hold a bunch of the good bottle rockets - the kind that would explode in a couple of colors (not just whistle and pop) - most likely from South of the Border, as that's the only place within a couple hundred miles of VA that you can get the good stuff. We drove out in a field and started cutting the sticks off.
Why, you ask, would we cut the sticks off? Because we thought that putting them in the ground wasn't getting them adequate altitude. Not like, say, lighting and holding them until the wick was almost done and then throwing them high in the air. Because of course they'd go straight up, right?
What we succeeded in doing was putting ourselves under seige by our own munitions. Imagine throwing a grenade, only to have it turn around in the air and try to take off your head.
Good times.
EDIT: I should point out that we only did it one time and, thank God, no one got hurt. Don't be stupid, kids. (Sadly, that's not the only story I have)
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Back in my day, we had witch whistlers and those things were goddamn dangerous. Lighting some off one year, one swung around and hit my friend in the leg, burning though his shorts and causing some bruising.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXHY3jbyKVU
Now that I'm a dad, I need to start sneaking sparklers across the border.
Oh, and not like it stops anyone. You can always hear a few neighbors setting off stuff on New Years and July 4th each year. Not sure what the penalty is for them, but sparklers in the backyard shouldn't be an issue.
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Also there are places to get good fireworks in state, you just gotta know the right people.
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or maybe he just drove to an indian reservation and spent like a thousand bucks, who knows
but anyway he always had the good shit; not just the small airborne stuff that you can't buy most places, but stuff I'm pretty sure was meant for semi-professional use with bulky launch tubes and everything
so anyway, we'd be playing with bouncers and bottle rockets or shooting ground blooms at each other with slingshots and he'd put on an impromptu show. It was probably completely illegal since I'm pretty sure you can't buy/use anything that elevates more than a couple feet or under its own power here, but it was a lot of fun.
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
As adults aged 25-32 last night my friends and I shot them at each other yelling Harry Potter curses at each other with every shot.
Then later I stuffed 3 of them in my fly and lit them to have a "Fire dick". I have no burns.
While we were outside we saw some other fireworks around the neighborhood, looks like some of the neighbors got some hands on some even bigger shells.
Of course, I'm driving to Atlanta tomorrow via Chattanooga, so I'll pass that fireworks place/gas station in the median of I-24. Pretty sure those dudes are open year-round.
So, yeah, if you want fireworks...
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Also the mad scramble to get away before it exploded.
Also the flaming bits of firework launched into the sides of some of the more expensive cars.
I had to take summerschool one year in highschool, for a single class. One of the guys there I knew okay enough, and one day he had an M80 on him. "Dude I'm gonna set it off after class today it's gonna be so cool." Whatever. I didn't care one way or the other, and neither did my friend. Well, up until the time came.
The guy invited us to come along since we were the only 'pals' of his from the class. We entered the hallway of the school from the courtyard, and he told us to start making our own break for it. So my friend and I just head in the direction of the parking lot right when the guy lights the short fuse. Then we hear something behind us. Close behind us. The fucker threw the thing in our direction. Being in a hallway, it was loud as fuck. A couple windows at the top of the hallway wall shattered, and would've been all over us if we didn't duck and cover just from the frightening boom.
I couldn't hear anything for a couple seconds, but I saw a cop dashing toward us, gun drawn. I guess he thought someone fired a gun. He didn't suspect us at all, since we apparently looked really dazed. He asked if we saw anything, and we said we didn't. But the dude who brought the M80 got ratted out by someone else anyway the next day.
It was one of the rare times my dad bothered taking me to the hospital, and while they said there was nothing wrong with my hearing maybe, I've had trouble hearing some frequencies (like generally phones) out of my right ear ever since.
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There are Fireworks stands everywhere.
Most of them are abutting or contained within the parking area of gas stations.
God Damn Bless America.
Fuck CA and it's lame ass fireworks laws. We spent as much time watching other peoples illegal entertaining stuff as we did our dozens of decent to crap fountains. The best ones out of the $100 were ones that 'malfunctioned' and acted like a bottle rocket partly or otherwise kinda sorta exploded. That comic is pretty spot on. The 4th was so much better in the past.
it was pretty awesome until one of them shot into my grandpa's face, who was getting ready to put lighter fluid into the grill to get it going. he didn't take so well to that
One day he built a home made pipe bomb out of PVC piping. He went and fetched his brother to "show him something cool."
What my friend witnessed was said brother taking an inch thick steel plate, standing it on the pipe, and then getting on top of it.
Threw him five feet straight up into the air while the smarter brother dove to the side hoping he doesn't get shrapnel in the face.
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That's no Ground Flower. It's a Britannian superweapon.