Fireworks should be banned! Used in Boston

[Anonymous]

Should be illegal everywhere. Blame Live Free or Die New Hampshire.

[Anonymous]

Look what the professionals did in Vienaa a few years back.............

I prefer to be a redneck for a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look what the professionals did in Vienaa a few years back.............

I prefer to be a redneck for a day.

Why should we allow the risk of anyone using these? Took the kids to a news years show in Baltimores inner harbor some years back and they had a laser light show (preceding the fireworks) - which was just as cool and FAR less dangerous to anyone. Just outlaw fireworks completely and everyone will be safer for it.

[Anonymous]

While you are at it, ban motorcycles, fatty food, cigarettes, table saws, bows and arrows, knives, and skis. The nanny state lives. Don't buy them if you are afraid of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While you are at it, ban motorcycles, fatty food, cigarettes, table saws, bows and arrows, knives, and skis. The nanny state lives. Don't buy them if you are afraid of them.

Thats ridiculous. We are only talking about fireworks and their proven threat to safety.

[Anonymous]

Some kids in my high school thought it would be fun to make a pipe bomb. The plan was to set it off in a field. They emptied the gunpowder out of the fireworks and put it in the pipe. When they screwed the cap on, one kid thought it would be funny to hit it with a hammer, it wasn't. He got shrapnel in the face and the kid holding it had his fingers blown off.

When I was younger, and lived near Lowell, there were kids that would go fishing and then blow up the carp with fire crackers.

As an adult an idiot boyfriend dropped a brick of firecrackers into a fire to see what would happen. Alcohol and fireworks do not mix.

Here I have a neighbor that sets them off all the time. He's always drunk and finds it fun. He doesn't care if we are in a drought and he could start a fire. He doesn't care that I find the casings all over my yard and he wouldn't care if he set my house on fire. Nor does he care that they are illegal in our county. He just sets off two or three and goes back inside before the cops go looking for him. FWIW other neighbors thought it was someone else and it took me six years to catch him in the act and know it was in fact the guy I thought it was.

I'm tend to think they shouldn't be so readily available. Any idiot can get a hold of them and hurt someone. It doesn't matter if they are making a bomb or not.

[Anonymous]

They are really just too dangerous to be allowed for general sale. Something has to be done to protect the public.

While you are at it, ban motorcycles, fatty food, cigarettes, table saws, bows and arrows, knives, and skis. The nanny state lives. Don't buy them if you are afraid of them.

Don't forget to add alcohol to the mix. I dare say more people are killed, injured, or have their health, employment and relationships destroyed by booze than fireworks. People we cannot legislate every potential danger from society.

[Anonymous]

And Tim McVeigh used fertilizer. Likely, it they could not have gotten black powder, they would have used something else....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some kids in my high school thought it would be fun to make a pipe bomb. The plan was to set it off in a field. They emptied the gunpowder out of the fireworks and put it in the pipe. When they screwed the cap on, one kid thought it would be funny to hit it with a hammer, it wasn't. He got shrapnel in the face and the kid holding it had his fingers blown off.

When I was younger, and lived near Lowell, there were kids that would go fishing and then blow up the carp with fire crackers.

As an adult an idiot boyfriend dropped a brick of firecrackers into a fire to see what would happen. Alcohol and fireworks do not mix.

Here I have a neighbor that sets them off all the time. He's always drunk and finds it fun. He doesn't care if we are in a drought and he could start a fire. He doesn't care that I find the casings all over my yard and he wouldn't care if he set my house on fire. Nor does he care that they are illegal in our county. He just sets off two or three and goes back inside before the cops go looking for him. FWIW other neighbors thought it was someone else and it took me six years to catch him in the act and know it was in fact the guy I thought it was.

I'm tend to think they shouldn't be so readily available. Any idiot can get a hold of them and hurt someone. It doesn't matter if they are making a bomb or not.

I think the problem here arises from the multitude of white trash interacting in this story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While you are at it, ban motorcycles, fatty food, cigarettes, table saws, bows and arrows, knives, and skis. The nanny state lives. Don't buy them if you are afraid of them.

Thats ridiculous. We are only talking about fireworks and their proven threat to safety.

Don;t forget pools, more kids die each year from pools than fireworks, guns, Oh don't put your kid in a car #1 killer of kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While you are at it, ban motorcycles, fatty food, cigarettes, table saws, bows and arrows, knives, and skis. The nanny state lives. Don't buy them if you are afraid of them.

Thats ridiculous. We are only talking about fireworks and their proven threat to safety.

Don;t forget pools, more kids die each year from pools than fireworks, guns, Oh don't put your kid in a car #1 killer of kids.

A pool does not walk up to my kids on the street.

[Anonymous]

Are you the woman from last summer who tried to tell people not to use their fireworks after the Derecho? Because, yeah, no. There's a limit to how much "can the world please cater to my individual sensitivities" , you can express without sounding like the world's tiniest violin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some kids in my high school thought it would be fun to make a pipe bomb. The plan was to set it off in a field. They emptied the gunpowder out of the fireworks and put it in the pipe. When they screwed the cap on, one kid thought it would be funny to hit it with a hammer, it wasn't. He got shrapnel in the face and the kid holding it had his fingers blown off.

When I was younger, and lived near Lowell, there were kids that would go fishing and then blow up the carp with fire crackers.

As an adult an idiot boyfriend dropped a brick of firecrackers into a fire to see what would happen. Alcohol and fireworks do not mix.

Here I have a neighbor that sets them off all the time. He's always drunk and finds it fun. He doesn't care if we are in a drought and he could start a fire. He doesn't care that I find the casings all over my yard and he wouldn't care if he set my house on fire. Nor does he care that they are illegal in our county. He just sets off two or three and goes back inside before the cops go looking for him. FWIW other neighbors thought it was someone else and it took me six years to catch him in the act and know it was in fact the guy I thought it was.

I'm tend to think they shouldn't be so readily available. Any idiot can get a hold of them and hurt someone. It doesn't matter if they are making a bomb or not.

I think the problem here arises from the multitude of white trash interacting in this story.

I'd agree but the only "white trash" were the kids from Lowell.

[Anonymous]

Please, its not like there's a right to fireworks or or a national fireworks association!

Just ban them and be done with it. I mean, who's in charge here? Rednecks? Nothing good comes for allowing the public to have fireworks.

[Anonymous]

A pool does not walk up to my kids on the street.

Somehow neighbor children seem to find pools, though.