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mikeyddddd · 07-02-2006, 02:41 AM

FIDDY

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Originally Posted by bringer

sounds fun. luckily for me i have friends and family with farmland outside of town where i can shoot off my "illegal" fireworks in large empty fields. after several years doing it i couldnt imagine shooting these fireworks off in town with many homes featuring woodshake roofs and dead grass surrounding them.

I was on the dock of a jetty at a large Corps of Engineers lake so it was over water.

baddog · 07-02-2006, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by mikeyddddd

FIDDY

I was on the dock of a jetty at a large Corps of Engineers lake so it was over water.

That is what I need. I just blew off another out of a launcher. One of those big pretty blooms in the sky, along with a report.

Even 75' in the air it set off a few alarms.

These people need to turn off their car alarms for the month of July.

aico · 07-02-2006, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy

You mean like smokers...

Actually smokers are worse, they don't even care about themself enough to not poison themself so of course they don't care about the people they are poisoning around them.

DWB · 07-02-2006, 02:55 AM

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Originally Posted by aico

Actually smokers are worse, they don't even care about themself enough to not poison themself so of course they don't care about the people they are poisoning around them.

This is true.

I was eating dinner last night and this fucking worn out Asian woman was sitting with her child (maybe 10 years old) and her American husband. After dinner she lit up and was just blowing smoke right into her husbands and childs face.

And she was a bad smoker. She would inhale and then blow out the second she would inhale, taking nothing inside almost... but blowing it right into her kids face. Unreal.

I wanted to punch her in the throat and pout hot sauce in her eyes.

Kimo · 07-02-2006, 03:16 AM

cigarettes should be made illegal and fireworks should be legalized and taxed to take its place

BIGTYMER · 07-02-2006, 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by baddog

Point is, lil kids can have bb guns.

Yeah.. You're right. It was a bad analogy.

jds · 07-02-2006, 03:29 AM

So guns are legal but fireworks are not ?

(or : I guess I should change my licence for a photoshop one then)

woj · 07-02-2006, 03:37 AM

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Originally Posted by 2HousePlague

2hp

wow, that's some hardcore shit, almost puked after seeing that pic :-/

Kimo · 07-02-2006, 03:37 AM

americans have the right to bare arms, not to blow shit up :P

KRL · 07-02-2006, 05:21 AM

LOL, when I was a kid and we played army, we'd use live firecrackers as our little grenades to throw at each other's position.

Martin3 · 07-02-2006, 08:20 AM

We had bottle rocket wars in highschool.

Get a bunch of 3'-6' pvc pipes, cap off one end.

A few thousand doven rockets. Show up to the firework stands at about 11:50pm on the last day they can sell them and you'll get insane deals.

Get some ones older bother to buy a bunch of beer.

Find a big field out in the middle of no where. If there's cows in the field it's just that much more fun

Split off in groups of 3 or more in oppisite ends of the field.....you can figure the rest out

....why are they now illegal in some places?

headless ghost · 07-02-2006, 08:36 AM

because you are so intent on taking pictures of yourself you would forget to let go of the firecracker after lighting it.

Drake · 07-02-2006, 08:39 AM

That's a good question. I'm not sure why. I think they're much more dangerous than guns for example and probably can cause much more damage to property and so on. Maybe quality control would be a huge issue too. They're probably categorized as bombs because that's exactly what they are.

GigoloMason · 07-02-2006, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by baddog

You could slip in the shower and break your neck. Happens all the time. Should they outlaw showers?

You can also start some pretty massive brush fires in some states.

Gabriel · 07-02-2006, 08:48 AM

Baddog, am I going to see you on the news?

CheneyRumsfeld · 07-02-2006, 09:13 AM

you can't be serious!
ROFL

you elect Arnold the Terminator for Governor, live in a place pron to earthquakes, brushfires and worse and you want to play with fireworks?

ROFL!

no. I don't think so!
you Californian's are kind of cute when you try to think.

Gerco · 07-02-2006, 09:15 AM

Fuck! it's getting annoying... People have been shooting off fireworks for the last 3 weeks here. Every fucking friday saturday it's been non stop for hours.. Last night OMG... they started at 5pm and went till 2 AM... BIG FUCKING STUFF. My whole house shook at least a couple dozen times.. They must have morgaged to afford that.. I figure at least a couple grand last night alone. I'm sure tonights going to be even worst. I can see why they are getting outlawed. This morning I get up and there all kinds of crap in my back yard that I have to go and clean up now.

I'm all for having a good time, but these people are taking it way to far. Christ, They are shooting this shit off from a small valley thats completely surrounded by houses and trees, (Thick trees and shrubs They are only about 2 Yards down from me and it thick enought not to be able to see the bonfire they have going) They are just low enough that the shit explodes at about the same level as all our houses on top of the hill. Tonight there's going to be a war if they start.

Tonight I'm going to be setting up the camera on my back deck, and try to get a couple pictures of exactly what I'm talking about.

teg0 · 07-02-2006, 09:25 AM

I know in the midwest, some states are just concerned about fires. Entire fields have been burned down by fireworks. This time of the year though the fields are green and alive, not brown and dead.

pussyluver · 07-02-2006, 10:12 AM

Mostly cause the do gooders of the State and Local governments could outlaw them. These people love the power they have. Fireworks are not protected by the Constitution.

The reasoning usually is to protect the kids or protect the drunks. In some cases I have to agree with the laws. Pisses me off to see dozens of spent bottle rockets on my roof the next morning. Drunk people do stupid things. As it turns out I suspect people generally look at fireworks as toys and guns as weapons.

In the state I live fireworks are legal to buy. Most municipalities have outlawed them. They get shot off anyway.

MakingCoin_Fatal · 07-02-2006, 10:16 AM

one word! DEADLY! lol!

ProducerCashDave · 07-02-2006, 11:09 AM

Cuz people like that get killed

Alphonso · 07-02-2006, 11:15 AM

Martina Warren · 07-02-2006, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Rochard

Baddog has been spending too much time around around Niko, who loves FIRE and loves to blow things up. Niko is like "Trash Man" in THE STAND.

Fireworks are illegal because too many people set fire to things and blow things up. They were illegal in Arizona, but now I'm in NORCAL and I see the booths popping up all over the place. I can't wait to go shopping.

I bet Niko is gonna have a great 4th July. Thats one thing i miss about Arizona, Niko and his blowing things up

I never did get to see the balloon one

baddog · 07-02-2006, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Gabriel

Baddog, am I going to see you on the news?

Nah, my neighbors are used to me by now

baddog · 07-02-2006, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Martina Warren

I bet Niko is gonna have a great 4th July. Thats one thing i miss about Arizona, Niko and his blowing things up

I never did get to see the balloon one

When I stayed with him for the Phoenix Forum we did it. It was great. Pics

fuelcell · 07-02-2006, 01:00 PM

Fireworks are useless and dangerous and appeal - seemingly - to the most outrageously immature and moronic people around. They can start fires and blow off body parts. All for what? A pretty light show and loud noises. Weee! I've never understood the allure. Inevitably, the illegal kind are lit off around midnight after everyone's gone to sleep during the week leading up to the Fourth and for days afterwards.

And, heck, if you haven't figured it out by now the Indians that sell the illegal fireworks get a kick out of imagining what body parts the idiot white people are going to blow off this year.

Martina Warren · 07-02-2006, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by baddog

When I stayed with him for the Phoenix Forum we did it. It was great. Pics

I know and im jealous

baddog · 07-02-2006, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by CheneyRumsfeld

you can't be serious!
ROFL

you elect Arnold the Terminator for Governor, live in a place pron to earthquakes, brushfires and worse and you want to play with fireworks?

ROFL!

no. I don't think so!
you Californian's are kind of cute when you try to think.

I did not vote for that idiot, fireworks have been illegal here a long time before he was voted in, and there has never been a brush fire at the beach that I am aware of.

giftedtwisted · 07-02-2006, 01:06 PM

nasty pics

2HousePlague · 07-02-2006, 01:12 PM

2hp

Drake · 07-02-2006, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by CheneyRumsfeld

you can't be serious!
ROFL

you elect Arnold the Terminator for Governor, live in a place pron to earthquakes, brushfires and worse and you want to play with fireworks?

ROFL!

no. I don't think so!
you Californian's are kind of cute when you try to think.

http://www.arnoldexposed.com/ lol

TheJimmy · 07-02-2006, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by baddog

Shall I post pictures of car wrecks?

Let's not forget to post pictures of smokers lungs and some good drunken bar fight, killings, maimings, etc...

When I did my required hours in an emergency room while getting my national EMT cert, 99% of the fucked up people that came through that door were drunk or on drugs, mostly drunk...

Smoking and drinking are legal and kill/maim/destroy far many more lives than fireworks have or ever will...

As Bill Maher points out regulary, the government doesn't REALLY give a shit about your safety or they'd not have been collecting their 'protection money' from those industries (cigs & drinks) that they know have been fucking up lives for decades....

:/

PS: If the fireworks industry had a better business model and were more cash heavy I'm sure they're be some effective lobbying going on.

Holly · 07-02-2006, 02:19 PM

Luckily, they're not illegal around here. I live out on the water, but as you cross the bridge to come out to our neighborhood, there are two gigantic fireworks trailers set up and they've been selling the hell out of them for the last couple of weeks.

My next door neighbor does a huge thing out on his pier every year and usually spends about 5k on his fireworks. I talked to him this morning and he's dropped 8k this year. He's doing them tonight instead of Tuesday night because he has to be out of town for a sick family member, which actually works out better because our city does another one out on the water on the Fourth and we usually wait until it's over and everyone gets back, for him to do his.

Our city actually hires some company to come in and do it and they coordinate the fireworks to music. You tune in to the local radio station and the fireworks match the music. I'm kind of excited because I love fireworks.

PinkElectric · 07-02-2006, 02:31 PM

Do you spit, or swallow??

Holly · 07-02-2006, 02:42 PM

Swallow.

baddog · 07-02-2006, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Holly

Swallow.

You must get proposed to weekly.

Holly · 07-02-2006, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by baddog

You must get proposed to weekly.

If you exclude married men, my ex-husband, men who live with their moms and have no job, or men who might possibly be a serial killer... then no. :-(

baddog · 07-02-2006, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Holly

If you exclude married men, my ex-husband, men who live with their moms and have no job, or men who might possibly be a serial killer... then no. :-(

Will you be mine? It doesn't have to be a permanent thing.

Holly · 07-02-2006, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by baddog

Will you be mine? It doesn't have to be a permanent thing.

Okay. You don't have a problem with getting naked, do you? I've been meeting a lot of those types lately.

baddog · 07-02-2006, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Holly

Okay. You don't have a problem with getting naked, do you? I've been meeting a lot of those types lately.

I am naked right now

Drake · 07-02-2006, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Holly

If you exclude married men, my ex-husband, men who live with their moms and have no job, or men who might possibly be a serial killer... then no. :-(

lol

How many years were you married?

Manowar · 07-02-2006, 03:23 PM

I got screamed at for messing with fireworks as a teen in my own backyard

fuckin' killjoys

Holly · 07-02-2006, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by baddog

I am naked right now

Now see- that's the right way. When a female asks you to show some skin, you should just do it and not make her beg. Men aren't supposed to be modest, are they?

Martina Warren · 07-02-2006, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by baddog

I am naked right now

Your such a tease

minusonebit · 07-02-2006, 03:26 PM

Fireworks laws are unconsitutional. I dont obey them. Never have, never will.

Holly · 07-02-2006, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike33

lol

How many years were you married?

Legally five, but during the last year we were pretty much separated and doing the divorce thing. It was really swell. ;)

baddog · 07-02-2006, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Holly

Men aren't supposed to be modest, are they?

I don't know the meaning of the word.

baddog · 07-02-2006, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Martina Warren

Your such a tease

Wait until your pool is done

Big_Red · 07-02-2006, 04:34 PM

I spent like $60. heh gonna take it easy this year.

betabomb · 07-02-2006, 04:50 PM

won't be long now

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Drake Hello world! Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 12,508	That's a good question. I'm not sure why. I think they're much more dangerous than guns for example and probably can cause much more damage to property and so on. Maybe quality control would be a huge issue too. They're probably categorized as bombs because that's exactly what they are. Last edited by Drake; 07-02-2006 at 08:40 AM..

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Gerco Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2,052	Fuck! it's getting annoying... People have been shooting off fireworks for the last 3 weeks here. Every fucking friday saturday it's been non stop for hours.. Last night OMG... they started at 5pm and went till 2 AM... BIG FUCKING STUFF. My whole house shook at least a couple dozen times.. They must have morgaged to afford that.. I figure at least a couple grand last night alone. I'm sure tonights going to be even worst. I can see why they are getting outlawed. This morning I get up and there all kinds of crap in my back yard that I have to go and clean up now. I'm all for having a good time, but these people are taking it way to far. Christ, They are shooting this shit off from a small valley thats completely surrounded by houses and trees, (Thick trees and shrubs They are only about 2 Yards down from me and it thick enought not to be able to see the bonfire they have going) They are just low enough that the shit explodes at about the same level as all our houses on top of the hill. Tonight there's going to be a war if they start. Tonight I'm going to be setting up the camera on my back deck, and try to get a couple pictures of exactly what I'm talking about. __________________ Http://www.extremehole.com ** CLOSED ** 400 HOURS of exclusive custom extreme content, already on external HD in Raw DV ready to encode. over 150,000 exclusive images and more.

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teg0 Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Gringo in Puerto Rico Posts: 4,204	I know in the midwest, some states are just concerned about fires. Entire fields have been burned down by fireworks. This time of the year though the fields are green and alive, not brown and dead.

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pussyluver Clueless OleMan Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: ICQ - 169903487 Posts: 11,009	Mostly cause the do gooders of the State and Local governments could outlaw them. These people love the power they have. Fireworks are not protected by the Constitution. The reasoning usually is to protect the kids or protect the drunks. In some cases I have to agree with the laws. Pisses me off to see dozens of spent bottle rockets on my roof the next morning. Drunk people do stupid things. As it turns out I suspect people generally look at fireworks as toys and guns as weapons. In the state I live fireworks are legal to buy. Most municipalities have outlawed them. They get shot off anyway.

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Holly Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Jesusland Posts: 10,017	Luckily, they're not illegal around here. I live out on the water, but as you cross the bridge to come out to our neighborhood, there are two gigantic fireworks trailers set up and they've been selling the hell out of them for the last couple of weeks. My next door neighbor does a huge thing out on his pier every year and usually spends about 5k on his fireworks. I talked to him this morning and he's dropped 8k this year. He's doing them tonight instead of Tuesday night because he has to be out of town for a sick family member, which actually works out better because our city does another one out on the water on the Fourth and we usually wait until it's over and everyone gets back, for him to do his. Our city actually hires some company to come in and do it and they coordinate the fireworks to music. You tune in to the local radio station and the fireworks match the music. I'm kind of excited because I love fireworks. __________________ War National Damn Champions Eagle

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