I hope you all have a safe and enjoyable 4th of July holiday.?ÿ No roman candle fights near an open garage door....
True.?ÿ Always keep the garage door closed and locked even when under attack from the neighbors', neighbor kids and passers by with pyrotechnics.
I miss living in the south where wild crazy fireworks were the de rigeur for the 4th and 31st.
Safe sane wear eye protection and don't maim and kill anyone else in celebration of the most important holiday of this country's existence.
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Party on roll out the hotdogs and beer!
Celebrate by reading the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.?ÿ Most people haven't.
Hilarious memory from many years ago.?ÿ Hilarious to everyone except my wife.?ÿ She had come home about two days earlier from having surgery, so moved very carefully and very slowly.?ÿ She was standing on the front porch watching as my teenage daughter and I were lighting some nightworks in the front yard.?ÿ One tube that blasted out BIG balls of fire tipped over and shot directly at her.?ÿ She moved, instinctively, quickly and not carefully.?ÿ The ball barely missed her then erupted into a few hundred little balls of fire all around her and under her feet.?ÿ That led to even more gyrations.?ÿ Somehow, she survived the incident.?ÿ The rest of us did not.?ÿ I think we are still being punished.
We haven??t had the usual 2 weeks of before and after war zone artillery this year, odd.
We haven??t had the usual 2 weeks of before and after war zone artillery this year, odd.
Was that sardonic sarcasm?
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Just checking.?ÿ Maybe the consequences for having wild crazy fun are being evaluated because of the massive burned areas not from fireworks ???????? collectively calmed people down.
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@bill93?ÿ
Most can't make it through the preamble much less interpret it. Especially the "scotus". ????ÿ
@jitterboogie hayrides and bottle rocket wars don??t mix well either. Don??t ask how i know. ?ÿBb guns roman candles bottle rockets stink bombs. Lol we had fun back the. Except the occasional mishaps like hay wagons and fire.?ÿ
I was once a passenger in a car full of other teenagers running around with way too many fireworks.?ÿ At the time hand launching pop-bottle rockets out the windows seemed to be the most entertaining...until a misfired rocket made it into a grocery sack full of fireworks sitting in the front seat.?ÿ 15 seconds seemed like an entire 5 minutes of a slow-motion shoot out from a Sam Peckinpaw western.
I didn't think the car would ever stop.?ÿ I was sitting in the middle of the back seat but somehow I was one of the first ones out.?ÿ It tore up the interior of my friend's mother's Mercury.?ÿ We all had little raspberry burns and bruises all over us.?ÿ My favorite Jimi Hendrix t-shirt had burn holes the size of half-dollars.
Not long after we had stopped and all exited the car, a patrol car drove passed.?ÿ The sight of us all standing outside of a car with all 4 doors open and billowing smoke was too much for them.?ÿ They had to stop and check it out.?ÿ I've never seen two cops smiling and laughing so much as they asked us if we were all right.
My buddy couldn't borrow his mother's car for a whole year.
Lucky somebody didn't lose an eye...
?ÿ I was sitting in the middle of the back seat but somehow I was one of the first ones out.
Real Surveyors can weasel out of anything real quick-like, especially if involves pyro or lawyers. ?????ÿ
I was once a passenger in a car full of other teenagers running around with way too many fireworks.?ÿ At the time hand launching pop-bottle rockets out the windows seemed to be the most entertaining...until a misfired rocket made it into a grocery sack full of fireworks sitting in the front seat.?ÿ 15 seconds seemed like an entire 5 minutes of a slow-motion shoot out from a Sam Peckinpaw western.
I didn't think the car would ever stop.?ÿ I was sitting in the middle of the back seat but somehow I was one of the first ones out.?ÿ It tore up the interior of my friend's mother's Mercury.?ÿ We all had little raspberry burns and bruises all over us.?ÿ My favorite Jimi Hendrix t-shirt had burn holes the size of half-dollars.
Not long after we had stopped and all exited the car, a patrol car drove passed.?ÿ The sight of us all standing outside of a car with all 4 doors open and billowing smoke was too much for them.?ÿ They had to stop and check it out.?ÿ I've never seen two cops smiling and laughing so much as they asked us if we were all right.
My buddy couldn't borrow his mother's car for a whole year.
Lucky somebody didn't lose an eye...
One of my cousins had a similar experience.?ÿ Back then Cherry Bombs were readily available.?ÿ He was in the back seat of a car with a slingshot.?ÿ He would place a cherry bomb in the slingshot, pull it back and someone else would light it.?ÿ He would shoot it out the window as they rode down the road.?ÿ UNTIL one landed on a Georgia State Patrol car.?ÿ OOOOPS, Mama and Daddy got a call that night.
My worst experience with fireworks was driving a pipe into the ground, light a cherry bomb, drop it into the pipe and then drop a flashlight battery on top.?ÿ It would launch that battery out of sight.
Andy
Celebrate by reading the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.?ÿ Most people haven't.
Great suggestion and comment, Bill! ?ÿI just went and ??skimmed? them, myself.
Thanks!
