Blowing things up for the Lord!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

I was at the fireworks store in South Dakota last week and this is what they stock:



it's weird out here in SoDak (i was visiting family on vacation)

but i must say the highway patrolman I met is the COOLEST EVAH!! No registration, no proof of ins. (my mom has it in FL) and I was speeding - got off with only a warning and I don't even have to mail in copies of the paperwork - If it happened in NY, I'd be waiting for my turn at the jail pay phone to call the bail bondsman

annie

[Richard Steele]

1. OK, what the heck are we looking at in that pic?

:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

2. fireworks. "Dear 8 pound 6 oz. baby Jesus, please bless my bic"

[Richard Steele]

4. Oookaayyy. That's just SPECIAL, that is.

I don't know what else to say about it.

[tjwash]

7. I'm gonna send that pic to the next freeper that spews the fox news "all islams blow shit up" line.

n t

[tjwash]

3. They need to name the really really big ones "christ almighties"

That pic kind of reminds me of growing up in rural Tennessee...

[Marrah_G]

5. Okayyyyy, I read that topic wrong for a minute....

I thought this was another young republican leader story....

:rofl:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. look what else you can do ...phone home...

[treestar]

8. OMG, is this for real?

How er, blatant!

What a joke! Jesus would turn away in disgust.

[aikoaiko]

9. In all fairness its tough to rename fireworks, there are only so many permutations of thunder, boom,

....etc that one can do.

Fireworks are fun, fun, fun. I'd buy em if they made a big boom, but in truth those are little fireworks.

[begin_within]

18. There are more than 9,000 named fireworks in the DOT's database so far.

And each year between 500 and 1,000 new items come onto the market. The "life span" of a name is 3 to 5 years, then the name is discarded. Some of the companies are so protective of their firework names that they trademark each item name and enforce them zealously, even forcing other companies to re-label items or remove existing stock from the market. It gets really ugly once in a while.

[jojo54]

10. OMG!!! ROTFLMFAO!!! (laugh, snort, laugh, snort)

This is truly the epitome of "christian moral values"!!!

[no_hypocrisy]

11. "Bring out the Holy Hand Grenade!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeJi07O7uQ

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. roflmao...too funny...

"oh lord, bless this hand gernade thus that with it thous might blow thy enimies to tiny bits in thy mercy and the Lord did grin and feast upon....."

[Vilis Veritas]

12. In our community a local church has the biggest Fireworks

warehouse going. It is easily the size of a small grocery store with over 10 semi-trailers in the lot that they use for portable stands.

[Richard Steele]

14. This deserves a "may the Good Lord take a likin' to ya and blow you up real soon" KICK!

[Ezlivin]

15. Do they carry any of the "Big Bang" explosives?

I hear they can really put out a blast. For safety you need to be a few million parsecs away before you light the fuse.

[BrotherBuzz]

16. Any 'Jesus on a stick' Bottle rockets?

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17. One fireworks importer (Lewis Raderschadt) of Watertown, South Dakota, imports those

If an importer has a large enough order (typically 300 cases or more of each item), the factory will put any label on the item that the importer wants. They are the same fireworks sold in other brands under other names, but the label artwork was designed by this one importer and the factory used the importer's custom designs. In this case the importer is Lewis Raderschadt, of Lew's Fireworks in Watertown, SD. There is another very small importer, the name of the company is "Bread Upon the Waters" of McMinnville, Oregon, and they do a few similar labels for the small items legal in California and Oregon, and they also include a "letter from Jesus" in every assortment box of fireworks they pack and sell in California and Oregon. There are a few small dealers scattered around the country who sell fireworks as a fundraiser for their church activities (usually youth group programs) and they package their assortments with religious names and themes. But Lew's is the only one I know of who imports a full line of items with these types of names on the item labels themselves.

[Richard Steele]

19. I would just LOVE to have one of those "letters from Jesus".

That's gotta be some fascinating stuff, ItellyaWhut.

Thanks for the background info! :thumbsup:

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20. If I ever get hold of one, I'll let you know.

You could try calling them at [phone] and pretend you want to set up a fireworks tent next year, and you're interested in their product line, especially the assortments with the letter from Jesus. Or possibly their Oregon number at [phone]. The only thing of theirs that I have is a small color catalog, and the prices are sky high. The "Heavens Thunder" assortment retails for $26.99, and the "Stars from Heaven" is $89.99, both very high prices for what you get in them. Oddly, this company also does a pumpkin patch and "X-Files haunted house" in Fresno, and they sell Christmas trees after that. I thought that most churches and Christian groups forbade or at least frowned on their members celebrating Halloween at all.