Firewoks/Firecrackers...Do you?

We're hosting a sleepover for our oldest. That's going to feel like fucking Beirut.

Can you imagine the fireworks that Cobretti has access to? Somebody get Hans Blix to monitor that sleepover.

last 4th my friends got this like box thing that you lit and it shot tons of fairly big fireworks into the air, the best part is that it was called "Guns of the Navarone"

Colorado law strictly prohibits anything that isn't stationary or a sparkler, so when I was a boy, late June would find Dad packing us into the car for a thrillingly illicit trip across the Wyoming border to lay in a supply of Roman candles from the roadside entrepreneurs.

I don't mess around with fireworks today, though; I don't think the cost and trouble are worth it, and I live in a fairly dense residential neighborhood, so the annoyance factor would be sky-high.

I still enjoy a good, professional show, though I haven't really touched them much since my junior year of high school when a childhood friend and I foolishly fired some roman candles into some dry brush and started a small fire, which the fire department had to come out and extinguish. I don't know how, but we managed to get away with a slap on the wrist.

Hold on Molt, I'm sure the Security Council approved Cobretti for the night. Sure it took some serious arm twisting from the french but damn if it didn't work out in the end.

I love the smell of fire ewoks.

Firewok With Me.

Expect most of Ratty's neighborhood along with most of Los Angeles to burn tonight if people are using fireworks. The Devil Winds are fierce tonight.

When I was a kid, some guys on the street I lived on at that time were setting off some fireworks, and something went wrong. One of the kids lost an eye, and another parts of 2 fingers. I think I was like 5 years old at the time, and seeing that left quite an impression on me. I've never messed with them myself, but don't mind when others do. I don't really see much point in firecrackers or things that just go "BANG!", though. Roman candles and things like that that are more of a display are always more fun to watch, IMO.

As an aside, my brother once took a bunch of dud firecrackers and broke them open, scooping out the gunpowder. He stuffed a bunch of it into an empty cartridge casing, which he attached to the end of a big stick w/ a metal bolt sticking out of it, and dropped it off the front porch. Nothing happened. So I told him to try using some paper bang caps as a primer. he folded a couple into the bottom of the cartridge, dropped it and *BOOM!* loudest explosion I ever heard a firework make. Mom came RUNNING out of the house to find my brother and his pal Dave standing there with stunned looks on their faces, and a large sulfuric cloud slowly drifting down the street as a coherent mass, and me laughing my ass off.

Will it be Yosemite Sam style or one handed rifle Sadaam Hussein style?

Suddenly get a third hand since Saturday eh Beanbag?

No problems yet, but the new year is young, and I'm sure there are still some stupid people out there still celebrating.

It's not a new year's party if there are no fireworks. Back in Panama, we used to stuff a dummy with clothes and everything full of fireworks and blow him up at midnight, signifying the "old" year. We tried to carry on this tradition in the US once at my sister's in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It didn't go very well, the fireworks here in the US are not strong enough and the dummy just slowly burned up instead of blew up ... I was also afraid the neighbors were going to think we were burning somebody up for real.