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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: BlueJ1 on July 03, 2006, 09:07:16 PM
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God I love fireworks.
Tonight was the warm-up before tomorrow night. Test out some of the new stuff. Gets dark around 9:30. Its an unspoken rule were you quit by 10pm on nights that are not holidays. Being in suburbia you can choose to ignore this rule. But dont be suprised when a neighbor you pissed off before calls the cops and takes your stash.
Anyways this year we upgraded to some larger shells and the stuff grown men giggle over. The smilie will remain for a few days.
I cant wait for tomorrow. One of the smaller things that makes the 4th of July my favorite holiday.
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This year I tried the Black Cat double break shells for the first time. What I liked best about these are instead of having the first shell break and then the second about a 3rd of a second later, it shot two shells out that broke exactly at the same time.
My two main things are shells and display rockets. I will buy 100's of the bigger rockets just to see where I find them landed at the next day. Call me crazy but it sure is fun.
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We mainly buy shells and barrages. This is only our third year doing thing. The first year we bought the sets which had some good stuff and thousands of firecrackers, bottlerockets, fountians, and other small stuff. This year we just bought some of the small stuff we like and then the rest was all large barrages and shells.
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Im Fireworks poor this year.
Had enough to start a small war last year. But blew them off last 4th and New Years, and kids birthdays and just because.
I had a buisness trip down south planned over the winter where I was planning on among other personal things, replentishing my arsenal.
But it fell through at the last minute.
Actually it fell through before that but I didnt find out about it till the last minute.
Kinda screwed me up in a major way and in more ways then one. But thats another subject.
In any event I have a few botlte rockets, a couple morters,crackers and some sparklers for the kiddies. but thats about it.
Unfortunately selling Fireworks are illegal here in NJ. Actually possessing and using them is too. but everyone prettymuch ignores the law on the 4th and as long as your not doing anything totally insane. The cops dont even bother trying to catch or stop people on the 4th
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Its illegal to buy or to have fireworks in NY. So we drive and hour to PA and buy them there. (Where its illegal for PA ers to buy or have them)
Police are more worried about drunk people.
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Originally posted by BlueJ1
Its illegal to buy or to have fireworks in NY. So we drive and hour to PA and buy them there. (Where its illegal for PA ers to buy or have them)
Police are more worried about drunk people.
Yea I heard about that.
They check your ID when you buy em to make sure your NOT a resident.
LMAO
I also heard there was some crackpot here in Jersey that went over there and reported on the news that he was "Horrified: How easy it was to buy them there.
He said soemthing like "It was far worse then I had ever imagined. All I had to do was show my NJ Licence and I was able to buy fireworks..just like that"
Well friggen DUH!
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The store is right on the state line...really it is. You walk in and not 3 feet away from the door is a PA police officer and next to him is a PA state trooper. They say please present your license to the lady behind the desk. You walk over show your ID and they register you in their system if your not already there. Then they give you some paperwork to carry around the store so when you checkout they know your legal. Then the PA police officer usually holds the door for you as you push your cart full of explosives by him and he tells you to have a good day.
Just dont get pulled over on the way home.
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FIREWORKS ARE DEH DEBIL!11!1!!!
Honestly, was there anything more fun (or more stupid) than bottle rocket wars when you were a kid?
It was fun doing stupid things when you were a kid. Seems kinda harmless now but back then there was nothing that beat it.
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Same here in IL. Fireworks here are illegal, but you can easily buy them anywhere. Theres 2 stands within 6 miles from here that sell the illegal stuff, even had one setup a tent in the next town selling bottle rockets, firecrackers, etc which are very illegal. They were all right in the open laying on the table but none of the local cops care, they buy them also. The other place said they even have state cops buying their stuff, but I dont know if I should believe it or not.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
FIREWORKS ARE DEH DEBIL!11!1!!!
Honestly, was there anything more fun (or more stupid) than bottle rocket wars when you were a kid?
It was fun doing stupid things when you were a kid. Seems kinda harmless now but back then there was nothing that beat it.
Roman Candles. Easier to aim.
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The other thing about fireworks that made them kewl:
BUY 1 GET 5,000 FREE!!![/SIZE]
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Originally posted by BlueJ1
Roman Candles. Easier to aim.
Easier to aim, yes, but their range is greatly lacking.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Easier to aim, yes, but their range is greatly lacking.
Thats why you set boundries. And if someone violates them they face the firing squad of roman candles.
Jeez...were so stupid...oh well.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
The other thing about fireworks that made them kewl:
BUY 1 GET 5,000 FREE!!![/SIZE]
Thats the places I go to first. Usually over in Pacific, MO theres a TON of firework stores all in walking distance competing with each other. To attract customers, they have 18 or 19 year old HOT women in bikinis waving balloons and handing out free bottlerockets :D
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Mmmm fireworks. $500 fine and possible jail time isn't worth it. Got caught 2 years ago lighting them at my friends house. I guess we scared some guys little poodle so he called the cops. I have a trash bag full but our governor outlawed fireworks in all counties this year because of "fire danger". Oh the humanity!
I got caught on the DAY of the 4th though, not the night. At night it might not matter, my dad's friend was lighting mortars and all kinds of crap one year. One shell didn't explode til about 5 feet off the ground...right in front of their neighbors who were watching on their driveway, oops.
Have a safe and explosive fourth!
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Originally posted by Meatwad
waving balloons and handing out free bottlerockets :D
So thats what they call it these days.
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Just around the 4th. I insulted one when I offered her $20 to see some real balloons
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Originally posted by BlueJ1
Thats why you set boundries. And if someone violates them they face the firing squad of roman candles.
Jeez...were so stupid...oh well.
Boundaries??? ARE YOU CRAZY????? Heck, that was half the fun! You spotted the enemy and tried to get one off before they knew what was up. It was great! We had this large open field with trees all around and a creek that was down at the bottom of a ravine...it was like Europe in WWII. When you have about 15 - 20 people running around just before dusk it made for the most fun you can (legally) have!
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Well, I have bought no fireworks (being a PA resident). However, tomorrow night I'll be attending the 5th largest Fireworks display in the US right here at Penn State.
The show is set to go off for around 33 minutes of nonstop fireworks. The fireworks will be coordinated with the local radiostation.
And for the finally, it's supposed to go for about a minute and a half shooting off 50 shells per second.
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What looks cool is tossing a bottle rocket into the water and watching it blow up underwater at night. Used to love bottle rocket wars back in the day.
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Hehe, one time back when I was 16, my friends and I were riding around shooting bottle rockets from the car at houses. I was driving. We musta fired some rockets at a house while the man was in his driveway, because we drove on and about 2 minutes later, while we were engaged in rocket firing at another house...a car speeded up and slammed on brakes in front of us to cut us off. Out jumped a man who proceeded to fire a revolver into the air over our car...bang, bang, bang bang. LOL Sounded like a .38.
One of my buddies yelled "Let's get the hell outta here Les!" And I floored it in reverse and backed up tires squealing. It seems comical now that I think of it, because we outran the guy by the time he got back in his car. No one was shot. But he did chase us for awhile. It was all thrills, we weren't as scared as we should have been. That was the early 70s. If we did that nowadays we mighta been shot.
Our car was a 64 Rambler Ambassador 990 with the 327 I think. Anyway, it was a fast car for a Rambler. Another time, my friends lit a string of firecrackers in the car while we were going down the interstate. That was interesting. Made lots of smoke. The worst part was the windows were up, and with that particular car if you rolled down more than one electric window at a time, the fuse would blow...and that's what happened. We had to pull over and open the doors.
Les
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Fireworks have been banned here this year because of the drought. You can buy them, you can sell them, but you can not use them. It is a minimum $300 fine and they are serious about enforcing it.
Link (http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/14919390.htm)
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Originally posted by rpm
Fireworks have been banned here this year because of the drought. You can buy them, you can sell them, but you can not use them. It is a minimum $300 fine and they are serious about enforcing it.
Link (http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/14919390.htm)
Exactamundo, same thing they did here. I had heard they also banned the sale of them but that appears to be false as no tents have closed.
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LOL - you guys are telling me that fireworks are... b-b-b-b-b-BANNED in some US states? Whatever next? Maybe they'll ban dildoes - oh wait, they already have in TX! :lol
Well bugger, I've decided I'll do fireworks this year. Our national firework day is on Nov. 5, anniversary of the 1605 gunpowder plot. My favourites are Catherine Wheels, air bomb batteries, jack-in-the-box and the big rockets. The problem with catherine wheels and six point stars is that you need a tree or fence to which they can be nailed. Could be a fire hazard, but not in England on a damp November day!
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One really good thing about the UK is that they have AWESOME fireworks available for sale to the general public. Holy cow those suckers rock. They go waaay over the line for use by "amatures", and in my experience, Americans who didn't grow up using these suckers tend to be a bit over their heads when they start playing around with them.
We had a guy trip over the launch tube at a party, and he sent a spark into the bucket full of on-call artillery. Funny as hell watching everyone dive for cover until one rocket hit the only pregnant woman square in the chest... Luckily she wasn't even slightly injured, but most Americans are just noobs when it comes to real fireworks. Our nanny state has made it so we're freaking dangerous when trying to handle fireworks that even "youngsters" are allowed to buy in the UK.
The worst mishap I personally had with fireworks in the UK was when a defective stabilization stick broke on launch at about 4 ft altitude and the rocket took a hard turn and bounced off the side of the house before detonating in the shrubbery. I'm not sure what I could have done about that since a post-mortem investigation revealed that the stick had a knot in it just a few inches from the rocket and the knot cleanly sheared off during the launch, but it could have been ugly if the rocket had gone in a less favorable direction. Maybe if my government had let me use fireworks while growing up, I would have recognized the defect before lighting the fuse. Maybe.
Of course most of the world considers the US to be dangerous when playing with almost anything that the rest of the world figured out how to handle in an adult manner a few hundred years ago, but whatcha gonna do about it punk? We gots NUKES so BOOYAH! :)
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LOL eagl! I had that same thing happen with a rocket that I launched from an incinerator. It was WAY too big to launch from a bottle, but the mesh which formed the bottom of the incinerator was about 12 inches off the ground and was perfect. Because of drizzle, the rocket was slightly damp, so it took off slowly, turned horizontal, and then - just as all the damp powder had been burnt off, it flew horizontally at full power across the garden, punching a hole in the neighbour's fence where it remained lodged, burning, screeching, discharging coloured balls which exploded all around us...
Those were the days. We didn't have a nanny government back then, and people didn't sue the firework maker if they got burned. Compare that with today when, under Blair's nannydom, children are adviced to wear goggles when playing conkers "in case a flying conker fragment went in someone's eye".
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That would be so much more meaningful if I knew what a conker was, but thanks anyhow :)
Seriously, yea I hope you guys don't lose your cool fireworks. It was fun living in Cambridge and hearing all the fireworks every Friday/Sat night, especially when school terms ended. I'd sometimes set up a chair near a window that opened towards city center to watch the fun, and hope that the guy on the adjacent street wouldn't send one my way by "accident" :)
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Originally posted by rpm
Fireworks have been banned here this year because of the drought. You can buy them, you can sell them, but you can not use them. It is a minimum $300 fine and they are serious about enforcing it.
Link (http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/14919390.htm)
It's rained here in Houston everyday for the last 3 days. We're ready for some 'splosions!!! KA-POWWWWW!!!!!!
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Originally posted by eagl
That would be so much more meaningful if I knew what a conker was, but thanks anyhow :)
Link: http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/conkers.html
Yes, I heard lots of fireworks on Saturday, after England's departure from the World Cup! Nothing to celebrate, but having bought the fireworks, what else was there to do with them?
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I remember playing a similiar game in school but lacking chesnuts, we used the official "#2" pencils handed out for tests at school. At the time synthetic wood pencils were starting to be manufactured and they would bend and break fairly easily, so the real wood pencils handed out by the school were prized posessions for both writing and playing little snap the pencil sorts of games. Pretty much the same rules, except that instead of a good pencil maintaining a score, the winner got to write with his beaten but intact pencil while all the losers had to use the two remaining halves for the rest of the day or until they could get a new pencil. Posers would discard their broken pencils for those cheapo fake wood pencils in the same way that jobless ricers now use fake pop-off valves to pretend they have a turbo under the hood, but a quick challenge and humiliating defeat by someone with a real wood pencil would put the posers in their place pretty quick.
The school got wise to the games and started requiring us to turn our pencils back in, so people started turning in the fake wood pencils or pencils nearing the end of their useful writing life. At that point, selling real wood pencils on campus at a substantial price markup became, for a while, more profitable than selling firecrackers.
I remember getting a case of about 500 wood pencils for $10, and I sold them all for 25 cents each in about 3 days.
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They have firecrackers now that are water proof. We have a bunch. Ran out of things to do with them tho. We experimented with them in snow and all kinds of stuff.
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my uncle goes all out with 4th of july, buys 5-600 dollars worth of it, he is near a warehouse that sells fireworks, can get twice as much for the same price anywhere else. A good 4-5 hour show he puts on. Really love it.