can be safely lit in hand and thrown:

https://www.kcfireworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Black_Cat_Bottle_Rockets_img_large.png

now these...
https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/tulsaworld.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/b2/8b27cb0f-951d-5147-83df-40eac42211e3/594f1c9b6fdf5.image.jpg

...ONE of these at a time...can be lit and thrown. but when you unravel the strings...you're gonna get some short fuses. these fuses are a lot faster than bottle rockets. this is a lot more dangerous.


roman candles...should you and your friends (as teenagers) run around with trashcan shields shooting them at each other? yea probably. it is fun. probably not smart though. no one is losing a hand. worst case...an eye i guess. but i dont see this as much more dangerous than hitting and throwing baseballs around

ive done some dumb shit with fireworks but dont feel like ive come close to losing a hand. i was thinking...it happens every year, right? people blowing their hands off. how could it stop? tv ads in lead up showing mangled hands? idk.

growing up 4th of july was most fun of the year to be a kid. some older guy shows you how to make a sparkler bomb and it's like you've learned a dark art, a secret power. "ehh it's a pretty pretty" that's what we called the ones that go up in the sky and look nice. we liked the shit that went boom. heading to the res with Tom and his boys...open top Bronco with the crazy dad (probably already been drinking, let's be real) who bought the good shit? that's 4th of july to me. or was.

fun. dumb. but not blow off hand dumb. or maybe it was and i was lucky. if there's ever a war where all the weapons are gone except black cat bottle rockets? yall better watch out. i can throw those things like darts. good cheat code with bottle rockets if u dont want to hand toss is get an l-shape pvc pipe, take them off the stick. light, drop in the hole. shoot at...or don't shoot at... friends.

saw some youtube no jumper affiliated guy with lasagna hand. oof da. that shit sucks. came here to see if there was a post. hope everyone is having a great weekend. i need to do laundry but i also need to sleep.

is okp pro firework? as kids? now? for your kids? i don't know how my mom didn't have 6 heart attacks. sheesh

circling empty parking lots. what a time.

the informational tickled me. 4th is/was one of my fav holidays too.

they arent allowed here in most of the city (they do em anyway startin as early as may). used to go out to my cousins where they had the ones that stayed on the ground nothin crazy. remember liking the danger of it when i got old enough to light em even tho they were relatively harmless. bought a couple swapmeet m80s i lit a few times but i didnt like that particular sense of danger as much ha.

4Extra who just blew off his hand yesterday with some fireworks.

Not going to post the image here but it was pretty gnarly

R.I.P. Loud But Wrong Guy
Dec 29th 2009 - Dec 17th 2017

very sad, easy to prevent situation there. lighting an m80 or anything bigger than what i linked...do NOT hold that shit in your hand. you have a punk or a bic and your arm extended. and when it sizzles, you move. that shit never goes in a pocket, never goes anywhere near a face. one 1970s new jersey 4th of july, my dad's friend johnny was scaring girls with firecrackers, chasing them around a tennis court, went to jump the net, caught his foot on it, came down full jump-over-tennis-net-force on his ass and the ass pocket had the rolls of firecrackers. johnny lost a LEG from firecrackers and easily could have bled out.

i heard yesterday 4Extra's friend blew half his face off? jesus.

conversations worth having with kids. might be good parenting for the next 20 years to sit johnny down and make him look at that picture of 4extra's hand for a full 60 seconds.

gnarly and ignoble. no glory in it. no one calling anyone anything but stupid when it happens.

I have a nostalgia for them and the kid in me just likes loud noises and seeing shit explode, but I also hate seeing dogs ive had freak out (my rottie used to hide in the bathtub, or try to dig through the carpet), if you're a combat vet with ptsd I guess you can throw on some noise cancelers through the bulk of it but its still gotta be stress... structure fires, and people limbs being blown off... ( or worse: https://www.foxla.com/news/buena-park-8-year-old-killed-home-firework-explosion-4th-july )

It all makes me feel like we're a pretty dumb species

moved back to a neighborhood i lived in 10 years ago. there are way more rats here now than 10 years ago. i went boston to seattle. 11 years ago, i felt like i saw 30 rats in Boston for every Seattle rat. i feel like 10 years ago, people reacted to rats here. you know what i mean?

anyway i was in a park last night and the rats were moving like they must have when the dinosaurs got smoked by the spacerock/jesus finger laser.

i was in some woods last year at 5am near a train track. when the train went by the coyotes started yipping and yowling. saying whatsup lets go eat some rabbits. like they know the rabbits can't hear them talking with the train cloaking their vocals. made me think...when all this mechanical noise started some critters probably couldn't pick up the old signals that it is time to move. and fast. human tech gettin animals munched for sure. imagine wolves in wwii...feasting cuz the bombs made the creatures they eat deaf. or maybe like your rott wolves can't hang in manmade war. that doesn't seem likely. that don't make your rott less canine and don't let em tell u different.

to be a dog on the fourth of july. better to be a scared dog in a tub then a dead lion. thoreau said that or close enough.

https://youtu.be/_Hhjh1pYOOo?si=CDBvFnbQyD1GFNmE

the ptsd point is real. had a roommate in boston. huge irish cath family. hilarious people. 8 kids. went to fourth of july at the family place. bill burr's hometown. the dad was just..the fuckin man. glass of rum glued to hand, laughing joking laughing joking. that whole family, the most ive ever laughed. that 4th of july... drank some drinks ended up climbing a tree. people got mad at me for being drunk and way up in a tree. i felt like i let the father down by worrying folks a little. reduced the joviality quotient, had to hang my head some. trees though...more predictable than people. you can hug them long time and most of them just stand there and let you.

saw the dad maybe twice after fourth of july. every time...just a man you meet who has something figured out. loving life making people feel good. 8 happy kids, lovely wife. a family that never stops laughing and feeling good and feeling good to be around.

fast fwd to next spring and one of their girls is running the marathon. it was pretty deep in the marathon when the bombs went off, right? less security and whatnot. anyway my roommate's parents were there, cheering on their daughter. and they ended being btwn the first and the second blast. they weren't hurt. physically. everything was okay. some eery days. we lived one town over from Watertown. watching the news, drinking beer. we had some heavy tool on the coffee table in case the guy decided to knock on our door.

point is later that summer, they went a beach place where they always go. he's in the sand, life is back to normal, yea? at some point a car back-fired and my roommate saw his dad react...and saw him go back to the marathon and the terror there. was tough for him to see. tough to hear about. a man who was alway The Man...big great spirit flinching on a beah...im sure he's fine and back to laughng and all that now...but that ptsd gets in bones. blowing up the boston marathon? why? sucks. and that was a drop in ocean. imagine being palestinian, or in kyiv. just the length of the war in ukraine at this point. people wear wars the rest of their lives. it's good to kind to others.

ive got this sad tough situation going on right now. compulsive liar, conflict-heavy person. there's no reaching them. it feels bad. sad for them. really not good what they did to me, to others. rug pull. sociopathy maybe idk. it sucks. it's had me down. a lot of bad bad vibes. i haven't kept my cool all the way. it's like a vortex that sucks you into their crazy. lack of care. where is the love? they let people down in a major way...and it just doesn't compute for them. incapable of seeing the world through another's eyes? but their background. verbally/emotionally abusive, nothing's ever good enough parents. first born in usa in the family. not an easy road to walk. the parents broke the child right? they are doing the 'best' they can...i guess. they weren't raised to full form...to understand right and wrong. i gotta try to rise above and be kind. that's what im working on yall.

some ramblin shit. be good to ppl ppl

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edit: no idea how that donuts link got in there. this what i meant to link: https://youtu.be/CWD2Re6SsUU?si=LyrPDzAJee1wUdW3

We all shrugged because he was hard headed and prolly didn’t let go of the firework just because his siblings told him to throw it.

I like fireworks but not to the point I need to hold them after I light them.

I aint holding anything once its lit unless its weed

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that are impressive enough for the annoyance and risk



www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

the kids man.

I do it for the kids. If it were up to me, I'd be on the couch sipping on something and chilling by the time the fireworks started.

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"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do!" - Olin Miller

So nah - we don’t do fireworks. I didn’t as a kid and my kids don’t now.

On the 4th
we were maybe 14/15 this firetruck turned the corner they jumped out like cops, yelled at us and took all our shit

We were half confused thinking like, can they do that? Shit, I still dont know Lol

But yes - if the fireworks are illegal based on local ordinance or even if they ARE legal but are being used improperly (for example not within the allowed dates or hours, or being used too close to certain types of buildings or in dry conditions that cause a hazard. In some jurisdictions they can confiscate, and in some they can even write up a citation.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/officials-identify-8-year-old-girl-killed-by-illegal-fireworks-in-buena-park/

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Growing up we would always get some. Especially once we moved across state line where it was legal. We'd have people over and do a whole show. Had a couple of mortar tubes tip over but no one got injured. I know one of my uncles did have an accident with some but I wasn't there. He didn't lose any fingers but lost some function.

Last year we went over to a family members house and they bought a ton and were wild with them. Reusing tubes too many times, setting up multiple mortars right next to each other. Had multiple of them pop on the ground.

I was very glad my brother decided not to buy any this year. He has a house on the mountain so we were able to just watch other people pop them from a distance. Would had been cool if there was a professional show within view but we saw plenty.

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and went to PA to visit my dad for the 4th. He loves fireworks.

I had no idea they were going to be the real shit when I set the first one off.

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however, I'd rather they be done at an event rather than the neighbors and their kids.

I cared less when I lived in apartments lol, but I was also younger and they were 'exciting'.

now it's actually boring to me.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

I have zero interest in setting them off myself. For what?

Backyard fireworks are always some low quality bullshit. Not worth the risk, and annoying as hell to neighbors who aren’t trying to hear them.

Going to organized fire works shows is the only way….and that shit is for the kids. Boring as hell to me at this point.

that was kinda nice.

i used to love fireworks when i was a kid, but that was the 80s. we lived to get our hands on some black cats or bottle rockets...or M-80s if we were lucky. my love for them has SEVERELY waned as i've aged.

my son doesn't really care about them. he likes to look at the big ones but even then he's cool after 10-15 mins.

i actually wanted to get him some actual fireworks this year just cuz i feel like everyone should light some fireworks once in their life. they are illegal where we live but that stops no one. i wasn't gonna get him anything crazy, just kiddie stuff like sparklers, snakes, smoke bombs, etc. i dunno if they changed the laws around me or what, because even them being illegal? you would still see fireworks stands every few blocks. this year? i didn't see a SINGLE fireworks stand so maybe they were illegal to light but not illegal to sell previously and now that's changed. either way, i wasn't gonna drive to the reservation just for some smoke bombs, lol. maybe next year, haha.

but my brother said his daughter doesn’t like them because they are bad for the environment.

she’s 10.

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