Originally posted by kamilyun
I could care less about the safety issues or wild fire risk. I just hate the fokkers who set that crap off at 3 am in the morning.
Read on CNN where a couple of people got shot (Wash and Ohio?) for setting off fireworks late at night.
I can relate to that. Usually starts a few days before the fourth, and goes on for a few days AFTER the fourth. What really gets me are the totally random "pops" at irregular intervals, or those from passing cars full of punk kids running around town lighting them off. Oh to have a claymore set up along the road!
Fireworks don't do anything for me anymore. 20 years as a Combat Engineer and tours in Iraq... played with shocktube and MDI, crater charges, C4, planar wave front demolitions for breeching charges, primacord, claymore, MICLICS, Bangalores (and field expedient bangalores from wire pickets), blocks of TNT.... I've blown up munitions bunkers, old artillery rounds, bridges, and water-towers (old mining towers all across PA as part of Guard mission),.... in country I've watched MRLS's light off, airstrikes, and a full arty battery conduct a fire mission (bloody impressive at night too when you can see both firing point and impact point -- "radio hill" the place to be on FOB Victory/Liberty for that one!) and heavy use of illumination flares (from both sides).
"Pop....whizzzzzz" just don't excite me.
Still have the recipe for RDX around here somewhere if I ever get the itch I suppose.
And they are just plain stupid out here in Colorado as hot and dry as it gets in the summer. All the fire departments been kept busy this year. As if we didn't have enough problems with lightning.
