Author Topic: fireworks laws (Read 1349 times)

Maverick · « **Reply #15 on:** July 02, 2005, 08:49:35 AM »

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Originally posted by Jackal1
The same thing has been going on for as long as I can remember.
When M80s were outlawed here, we could go 35 miles, cross the state line and buy them by the bushel basket.
Peeps were lined up to buy them and bring them back across the line and sell them for double the price.
That`s been a while ago. Believe me.

Little marshmallow confections were trafficing in illegal fireworks?!?!?!?! That proves that too much sugar makes you go bad!!! I say we ban peeps!!!

Shuckins · « **Reply #16 on:** July 02, 2005, 09:01:07 AM »

As someone who has sold fireworks, and has used all types of them throughout my entire life, I can honestly say that they safe as long as they are used in the manner in which they were originally intended.

It's the experimentation that'll get ya hurt.

By the way, after 50-some-odd years of life I can't name a single instance in my personal experience of someone getting an eye put out by a bottle rocket or having a finger blown off by a fire-cracker.

Delirium · « **Reply #17 on:** July 02, 2005, 09:15:37 AM »

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July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.

Mark Twain

Delirium · « **Reply #18 on:** July 02, 2005, 09:17:21 AM »

Work in the medical field... I guarantee you'll see a few.

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Originally posted by Shuckins
I can't name a single instance in my personal experience of someone getting an eye put out by a bottle rocket or having a finger blown off by a fire-cracker.

spitfiremkv · « **Reply #19 on:** July 02, 2005, 10:43:54 AM »

why buy fireworks when you can make them...it's more exciting that way, you never know what you're gonna get!

nirvana · « **Reply #20 on:** July 02, 2005, 02:30:59 PM »

I concur, banning something like sparklers, now that they've removed the metal wiring. I read a case about a kid lighting a bottle rocket in his garage and ruining the garage and car. I wonder if they took the time to fill the garage with hydrogen gas or something before? And if someone says "HEY DUDE! hold onto this mortar as I light it to see what happens!!!!11!!" then he deserves his hand to be blown off. There are warning labels for a reason, read the, respect the power certain fireworks have, and enjoy. A ban on SPARKLERS is complete lunacy. Once again lack of responsibility....

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 02, 2005, 04:02:12 PM »

No, a ban on sparklers isn't complete lunacy.

Sparklers burn at an incredibly high temperature. And most people don't realize this. Especially a 4 year old who really doesn't know much about the world.

SuperDud · « **Reply #22 on:** July 02, 2005, 04:56:40 PM »

It's illegal in OH(except snakes and sparklers) but not really enforced in the Cincinnati area as far as I can tell. I've seen cops just rollin down the street with fireworks goin off left and right. I think it would be to much of a burden to try to stop it so they just make sure everyones doing it responsibly.

Deth7 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 02, 2005, 05:16:03 PM »

In Florida any day of the year u can see fireworks goin off... the way it should be everywhere else

SOB · « **Reply #24 on:** July 02, 2005, 05:33:13 PM »

In Oregon, you can have fountains and lesser. No bottle rockets or the like. Across the river in Washington, you can get mortars and some more powerful stuff, but oddly, no bottle rockets...not even the little kind.

We got caugh red-handed shooting off the illegal stuf here when I was in my early twenties. Nothing serious happened...the cop just took what we had left and told us to knock it off. That was before 9/11 and the paranoia though.

nirvana · « **Reply #25 on:** July 02, 2005, 07:08:37 PM »

I'd like to have a cop respond on this issue as to whether they make sure people are doing it responsibly. Like you said SOB they take your stuff and tell you to stop. The city about 4 miles down the road can shoot off fireworks but we can't so it's kind of a wtf situation. Suppose you could go set up a tent in one of the legal cities and do it. Just small stuff allowed In colorado too though, novelties, sparklers, snakes etc.

I see what you're saying though lasersailor but when I was 4 if I had a sparkler my parents had eyes on me the whole time. Not sure about parents these days though.

Seeing as how police could have more to respond to (drunk drivers) then some people lighting some fountains and such i can't imagine they would do much more then make sure you are doing it safe. May just depend on the officer though.

superpug1 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 03, 2005, 12:00:32 AM »

man, sux 4 yall. here in my lil part of texas u can have whatever u want. just cant blow it up in the city. so i walk about 100 yards to a field and blow stuff up there with my friends. lol, i made a bottle rocket launcher, gets em about 100 ards. it shoot hobby rockets 2.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #27 on:** July 03, 2005, 12:11:40 AM »

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Originally posted by Vulcan
Actually sparklers can be bundled together tightly to make a "sparkler bomb".

Weren't you ever a child?

Naa some mad doctor just threw me together out of spare parts he had laying around:)

SOB · « **Reply #28 on:** July 03, 2005, 12:13:38 AM »

Ahhh, I remember the sparkler bomb! I don't think it works with the new, family friendly sparklers. I haven't tried it recently though.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #29 on:** July 03, 2005, 12:19:51 AM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
No, a ban on sparklers isn't complete lunacy.

Sparklers burn at an incredibly high temperature. And most people don't realize this. Especially a 4 year old who really doesn't know much about the world.

Thast why it says on the box. "use only under adult supervision"

If parents, just did something other then whine and try to ban every little thing that their child might get hurt with...
If they did something really unique and unusual like... PARENTING, there wouldnt be any need to be a ban because parents would have taught their kids that its a really bad idea to grab the glowing part.

Although if your giving a 4 year old a lit sparkler and letting the child hold it all by him/herself You dont deserve to have a kid anyway