CatWoman
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Thu Jun-30-05 11:53 AM
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When did fireworks become legal? |
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every where I go, there's tents and tents full of fireworks for sale.
I remember a time when one had to go as far as Tennessee in order to buy them.
Now they're everywhere.
And I'm in a red state, too. Freepers and Fire DO NOT mix well.
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Thu Jun-30-05 11:55 AM
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1. There are a bunch of people in my neighborhood |
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who enjoy setting them off in the middle of the busy street in the middle of the night. Gotta love it :eyes:
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Thu Jun-30-05 11:56 AM
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2. It's just the opposite here. |
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Fireworks were everywhere when I was a kid. Laws keep getting stricter and stupider. The only thing they're allowed to sell are little cones that shoot sparks no more then three or four feet high. They can't even sell those "snakes" anymore because they're poisonous and they're worried little kids will eat them. A person has to go way out to indian reservations to get anything decent.
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Thu Jun-30-05 11:56 AM
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Edited on Thu Jun-30-05 11:57 AM by Reverend_Smitty
Here in NJ you can't get anything harder than sparklers, even in PA I can't find any good stuff. I guess I'd have to take a run to South of the Border to get some hard-core fireworks
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Thu Jun-30-05 11:58 AM
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Costco's selling HUGE firework packs. Not the best stuff, but I don't remember seeing them sold in stores in PA before.
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:00 PM
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8. hmmm maybe it's a new law |
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what part of PA? Because I don't know where any Costcos are around me
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:12 PM
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I'm in Pittsburgh, I always thought they were illegal in Pa., not that that stops anyone. :evilgrin:
Eveyone just went to Ohio!
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Thu Jun-30-05 01:20 PM
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31. I've always seen minor fireworks sold in PA but... |
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..not the stuff that could harm or maim someone while using (well unless you decide to try and swallow something lit then you're a dumbass that should be harmed or maimed)
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:16 PM
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13. I went through PA last year and found some boss fireworks |
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nothing like South carolina, but they had better stuff than maryland, which is now a Fireworks legal state
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Thu Jun-30-05 11:56 AM
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4. They've been legal in Montana since before |
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I was born in 1950.
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Thu Jun-30-05 11:57 AM
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here, fireworks are illegal for all but a few weeks a year, but on the state line in the tri state area... theirs about 5 shops all in a row... their open all summer even though youre only allowed to have them last few weeks of june and first few weeks of july...
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Thu Jun-30-05 11:58 AM
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7. Sweetie, you're from the south - that's a normal thing |
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You southerns don't want us messing with your god given rights to blow-up random body parts from drunking fireworks use.
It's so funny when I drive from DE to MD, I know when I'm in MD when I start seeing the firework stands.
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:19 PM
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16. Fireworks were illegal here in MD until like 2 years ago |
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For years we had to go to PA or VA to get any kind of decent fireworks.
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Thu Jun-30-05 01:19 PM
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28. PA has never had legal fireworks other than the cheesy harmless stuff |
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Sparklers, snaps - stuff that Joe Dirt would ridicule
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DemBones DemBones
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Thu Jun-30-05 02:23 PM
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41. Sparklers can and do injure people, |
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despite a "safe" reputation.
Re: your condescending attitude toward us "Southerns":
Mexicans like fireworks, too, do you make fun of them?
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Thu Jun-30-05 01:36 PM
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33. They're still illegal in MD in some counties... |
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Montgomery recently held an amnesty day for people to turn in fireworks. They're illegal in Prince Georges too...
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:08 PM
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9. Yeah, we have it all in Tennessee |
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Mortars! I love mortars. BOOM!!! BOOM!!! BOOM!!!
But the older I get, the less I want to mess with them. They're pretty dangerous.
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:15 PM
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11. I passed a fireworks tent in the mall parking lot yesterday |
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I was thinking, "What'd I miss?" :shrug:
We drove to Alabama to get fireworks years ago, that was a little over an hour's drive
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:15 PM
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12. You still have to go into the deep south to get the real good shit |
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but I am glad Maryland legalized fireworks because I hated to have to drive all the way to virginia to get shit
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:17 PM
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14. when i lived in Texas you could get some really good fireworks |
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the big ones, we used hammer pvc pipes into the lawn to launch some of them.
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:21 PM
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17. oh yeah. I love the cannons |
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A friend of mine made a bottle rocket launcher that you fired like an RPG once. We doused a sombero with gasoline and took turns firing bottle rockets at it until it burst into flames. It was great. :D
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:37 PM
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20. some of the kids in the neighborhood used to aim everything at the |
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port-o-pottys and a few times they actually got them to tip.
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:54 PM
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:59 PM
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24. yeah it was pretty damn funny, needless to say some of the neighbors |
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were not as amused as my husband and i were but oh well.
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:18 PM
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15. If you are in GA like me |
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I've been seeing stuff around too. Its all bunches of stuff that do nothing but throw out some sparks and they all seem to cost $22.
Still have to go to South Carolina to get the fun stuff.
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:22 PM
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18. That is what we get in MD |
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South carolina is one of the states that will sell you C-4 and mortar shells. I wish I could get down there now to pick up some of the good shit!
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:33 PM
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Thu Jun-30-05 01:19 PM
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29. Northern burbs of Atlanta |
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Gwinnett County. Howdy neighbor. :)
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CatWoman
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Thu Jun-30-05 01:20 PM
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Edited on Thu Jun-30-05 01:20 PM by CatWoman
:hi:
we're closer than you think -- actually I'm in Stone Mountain. I work in Chamblee, and have many, many coworkers who live in Gwinnett.
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Thu Jun-30-05 01:26 PM
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32. Even smaller than you think |
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My wife used to work in Chamblee also.
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Thu Jun-30-05 02:10 PM
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37. I'm sort of a neighbor. I live in Cherokee County. |
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Thu Jun-30-05 02:14 PM
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39. you know, Ulysses just moved out your way |
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just this past weekend.
:hi:
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:57 PM
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22. There everywhere here too |
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back in the 80's you'd have to drive to the south for "Crazy Joe's" for "Uncle Jim's" now the Targets and Meijer here sell them. I'm in the mood to blow up some watermelons with some M-80s.
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Thu Jun-30-05 12:58 PM
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23. But its fun!!!! And pretty! |
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Thu Jun-30-05 01:09 PM
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25. I pass a church selling fireworks every day |
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big tent out in the parking lot.
I make jokes to my wife about buying 'Fireworks for Jesus'.
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Thu Jun-30-05 01:13 PM
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26. It depends on state law. |
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In Ohio it's legal to buy them and legal to sell them, but it's not legal to use them.
:eyes:
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Thu Jun-30-05 01:15 PM
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27. It seems, in a number of states, |
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firewoks are legal to buy and sell, but not to light. :wtf:
If I recall, when I lived in PA, fireworks dealers in the state could sell to out-of-staters, but no PA citizens. :shrug:
I just say make them legal.
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Thu Jun-30-05 01:37 PM
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34. I'm in Mo, there are two year round |
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big ass fireworks stores just down the road a few miles. Missouri residents aren't allowed to buy them except for a few weeks each year, but they're right by a busy interstate hyway, and if you can prove you live out of state they're more than happy to take your dollar. Every year it's like living in Iraq here, the explosions get louder and louder, hell, my stepson has been making pipebombs for the fourth for years. I hope he doesn't blow himself up, or get busted.
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Thu Jun-30-05 01:45 PM
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35. we have limited stuff in MN now |
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Much better stuff in WI I believe, and as a kid, my brothers always got their black cats and M-80s in South Dakota.
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Thu Jun-30-05 01:48 PM
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You can buy fireworks at the local grocery store. :shrug:
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Thu Jun-30-05 02:13 PM
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38. Fireworks were legal in Georgia back in |
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the late Fifties, maybe later, but banned by the early Seventies. I don't know why the change but I'll bet all those state line fireworks business owners are mad as hell!
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Thu Jun-30-05 02:22 PM
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I will be in Kingston GA this weekend from Minnesota to visit family. I'm thinking of moving there. Any suggestions on what to do while I'm visiting?
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