Hahaha. It reminds me of a story in my family. One of my uncles had this HUGE display of fireworks for the 4th of July. He loves fireworks. Had a nice big show, as if a community hosted it. Music blaring and everthing. Problem is that fireworks are illegal to set off in his state. So when the police showed up, he went over to them and told them that he'll pay the fine and stop the fireworks show. But the policemen (and one of them was the police chief) said instead, "We came by to thank you for the free fireworks show. Everyone in the area is watching it right now and we just wanted to make sure everything is alright and personally thank you on behalf of the city." He obviously let the show go on.

lol must be popular then.

We picked up some fireworks in Washington state last summer, where you can still buy stuff that could seriously cause bodily injury. We got these big huge airborne mortars that are like, industrial grade. They boom so loud that it echos for up to 20 seconds after the actual explosion. They straight shut our neighbors dinky firecrackers down on New Years! It went like this:


BOOM!! (giggle giggle giggle snicker snicker) Do another one! BOOM!!..... etc.

Best money I ever wasted on explosives.

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We were partying on an island in the delta around April one year, complete with beer and bonfire when we all drug out the fireworks

Twards the end of the evening one of the drunk party goers wobbled down to the mortar tube to send off another mortar. He was just about to light it when we saw a dark spot in the water channel. We all screamed stop and the mortar plan was put on hold until the boat that was driving at night without any nav lights on passed out of our field of range. The mortar was lit, then, another boat! Aww crap! We couldn't stop the mortar fuse so we just let it fly...

POP
Fizzzzzzzzzz
BOOM

The entire sky lit up with a bright white star field directly over the Sheriff's boat that was now directly in front of us illuminating the Sheriff sticker so brightly that I'm sure Hubble has it on it't database somewhere

While we were fecalating ourselves, he lit up his light bar and siren and took off at full speed. Never to be seen by us again

We figure the first boat was traffiking drugs and the sheriff's boat was stalking him or something. In the end we never knew

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