I'm all about celebrating how far we've come as a nation. It's our heritage to commemorate our freedom with grand noise and display. But trust me, that's not what happens in our subdivision. It's nothing about that.

Look, I'll never besmurch a guy's right to celebrate with fire and explosives, but where I come from, it's degenerated into an all night beer and Beam soaked blowfest that leaves the street looking like the fall of Baghdad.

On the fourth of July, I dutifully move my cars around to the side streets at 8 PM because I know if don't they'll be blasted with bottle rockets and roman candles. I wake up to about 20-30 spent BR's on my roof and in my yard. Calling the cops is POINTLESS.

I haven't even mentioned what this whole thing does to my dogs. I have to get Xanax for them.

No thanks. You can keep it. But Hey!

God Bless America!!!!

I am the quiet neighbor, until I get close to bedtime. Then I fill a coke can with a nice mixture of acetylene and oxygen, light a toilet paper fuse, and go back inside. After the earth shattering explosion, the other folks quit shooting fireworks for the night, and the sherriff patrols become more frequent for a few hours. I then sleep very well. LOL

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

Chief,

That was great. Wish i thought of it.

re 22

Try an oxy-aceytline filled balloon in a paper sack. Just light the bag, still not at all safe, but no metal fragments.

Haaaaa!!!

I used to love fireworks, but in Jersey, NJS 2C:39-1c classifies "any device, instrument or object designed to explode or produce uncontrolled combustion..." as a Destructive Device. Get caught with a fire cracker and you COULD be charged with a Third Degree crime and end up in prison.

People wonder why I hate this freak'n state.

David

RE#24,

Yes, but it wouldn't be as fun. LOL

I have a safe place to put it, the charge is directed straight up, though there have been a few squirrel casulties, from the tree above my "cannon". 4" ID 5 1/2"od cold rolled pipe, cemented into the ground.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

P.S. some of the limbs of the tree have shrapnel wrapped around and embeded into them.

^ #21 & #22

Point taken. People can be tremendously disrespectful and stupid, and I suppose it's even more so when booze and explosives are involved.

Our show happens on a private lake. Everything is fused together and timed and lasts no more than 20 minutes. The show goes off as soon as it's dark enough and then that's it for fireworks until New Year's. No bottle rockets or firecrackers, just a nice, pretty display.

...Yes ! ! !

re 27

Nice!