Nothing could go wrong here, right? Wrong.
It’s almost July 4th.
pic.twitter.com/yNz3anwAwc— AlphaFox (@Alphafox78) June 28, 2023
As an Amazon Associate I Earn from Qualifying Purchases
Click to visit the TBP Store for Great TBP Merchandise
Darwin is everywhere on the 4th. He will not be cheated.
No no no, the grand finale comes last
I have very mixed feeling over fireworks. I enjoy an awesome display. But, as an inner city kid in the early 60’s, I remember some of the crazy blacks lighting up m eighties and cherry bombs all night long right in front of our apartment. Dad was drunk on his ass and would scream out, “do one of them humdingers.” The next day the black kids were telling stories of lighting cats on fire and how they looked jumping off and on roofs. Truly Psycho.
Where I live in SoCal it’s not unusual for the explosive skyrockets, aerial bombs and M-80s to be heard regularly starting weeks before the 4th. This year has been slightly subdued for some reason but I expect it will accelerate any time and the actual 4th will bring tons of reports well after midnight. I enjoy a good display as well but it does get tedious to hear them going off at all hours for no good reason for weeks on end.
I live in SoCal as well. I like fireworks as much as any red-blooded American man with a beer in his hand. That being said, aside from the beaches, Southern California is the downright DUMBEST place to set them off!!! The place is a perennial tinderbox just LOOKING for an excuse to burn! Hell; some of the older houses still have CEDAR SHINGLE ROOFS! Lighting off fireworks here is just plain RETARDED!!!
“The landlord ees reech. He has mucho eensurance y dinaro, he can afford eet if it burns-sup”
You CaLebowskis never cease to amaze me.
It’s your fault if you can’t figure out how to put out fires when you live right next to an ocean.
The great fireworks in California were the wetbacks who’d fire their handguns and rifles and shotguns into the air … never even imagining that those rounds would eventually return to earth …
You … can’t … cure … stupid …
When I was a kid the next door neighbor who was a welder would drop m80’s in a metal trash can. He was usually drunk, too.
I wish the M80’s were still for sale. I’ve got a ground hog problem in the pasture with some pretty big holes.
Brewer,1/4 sticks at a minimum!
If you’re near southern VA I’ll take care of them for you no charge if there’s a safe backdrop. 53gr of copper & lead at Mach 4 does some pretty amazing things to the little fuckers.
.22/250 ?
Use poison gas grenades. No explosions. Just heavier than air poison gas that will fill every nook and cranny of an underground tunnel system. They sell them for mole and vole extermination. Can’t imagine it would be any less effective on the whistle pigs. The holes are bigger so you’ll need more gas bombs than you would for mole holes.
In my youth, I’d just set a # 2 steel trap if I didn’t have time to stalk them myself.
I’ve sat out on the back porch, .22lr Ruger 10/22, with scope, and have taken out 3 so far in the last few months. They seem to keep coming back or, there are more of them than first thought. There is one horse in the pasture and a dozen cattle that I would be very pissed off if one of them breaks a leg in one of those tunnel holes.
I got myself stuck in the burbs temporarily. While I have the hardware, I’m limited to sub-sonics. I would do this out of an abundance of common sense even if it were not the convention. It’s a matter of public safety.
God, how I love my 10/22! Fitted with a 50 mm 3×9 variable. It’s a 50 yard tack driver and a 100 yard beer can assassin.
You’ll be rid of them at that rate by this time next year, a straggler or two notwithstanding. At least that’s been my experience.
The local high school — in a White suburb of Cleveland, OH — had students who’d flush M80s down the toilets …
As for welders, one of the welders in the machine shop where I worked briefly would fill a balloon with acetylene (?) and then spark it … great times … needed hearing protection, though …
About fifty years ago some guys at the public high school flushed an M-80 which made it all the way to the wall of the library before it exploded. Did a lot of damage. Cherry bombs had the same plastic like fuses and they would blow up in water too.
Sounds like you might have the same attitude about guns? Read any stats lately?
I guess only government professional fireworks-technicians should have fireworks.
I’m locked and loaded. Like most Anon’s, your talking out your ass. It’s never good when Psychos have guns or fireworks.
Way back in the nineteen-sixties, you didn’t have a psycho or fireworks problem. You had a nigger problem.
Nothing has changed.
That was the most enjoyable video I’ve seen in months. Really, Yes, I take joy at the misfortune of others. They were probably dumbass democraps anyway.
Yeah, I lol’d. Then I realized it’s a metaphor for Murica and then I felt a little bad.
Roman Candle fights.
Don’t tell Dad.
I kuow a women who put Roman Candles on her husband’s birthday cake, when she lit the candles they were bounclng off the ceiling and caught the curtains on fire. The scary part was this women had advanced degrees from the Medical College of Georgia and worked for the CDC.
Whatever you do dont break the stick off a bottle rocket and drop it at your buddies feet.
…We called those n*gg*r chasers!!
Hey ,sh!t happens
Missouri is in a drought for most of the state. My area is in extreme drought and counties are starting to institute burn bans and ban fireworks. Too late, the stands have been open for a week. I see many grass fires in the near future. Probably some house fires, too.
I forgot it was that time of year already. Watching out for idiots trying to burn things down gets old.
That’s the next Bud Light commercial, right?
At Mar-a-Lago.
You dirty bird. ;o)
Love it! And the very outcome I hope for every year when drunk assholes can’t help but disturb everyone else’s version of celebrating Independence Day. Some people don’t seem to know that even if your small town doesn’t have its own little celebration planned, or even if they do, a reasonable drive in many cases to the nearest large city will have a good-sized fireworks agenda if that’s your bag.
You need to be visited by the ghosts of Independence Day Past, Present, and Future.
Some towns of even low-medium size — e.g., Vancouver, WA — have done away with 4th of July fireworks some years recently due to the high cost of the liability insurance. A couple of times some big business would foot that bill — but it was pretty steep, and some years folks went without …
All in all, though, for a small-medium town, Vancouver, WA, puts on a great show — which, btw, they will do this year.
Who wants to drive to the nearest large city? Not me. What with the July drunk traffic and all.
“Who wants to drive me to the scene of my next crime?” LOLOL!
Who hasn’t had a good time with fireworks; come on raise your hook hand.
Good thing that wasn’t an electric car. It would have taken the whole neighborhood
In Detroit they fire bullets straight up into the air, all over the city.
No joke
That’s an old wetback trick … first saw it in Southern California in the mid-’70s … and it’s still going strong there as I understand from friends of mine that still live there.
When I was young I didn’t have the money to buy that many fireworks. Later I couldn’t bring myself to wase that much money on fireworks. Hope noone was hurt.
That’s been my experience.
That video never gets old.
I’m getting old, get off my lawn and quit lighting off fireworks after 10 PM all you hooligans !! Lol
you might remember me from PSA’s such as “Fireworks:The Silent Killer” and “Earwigs: Ewww”.
Is that you, Troy McClure?!
Tried the link. You have to join Twitter to see the video. Never going to happen.
Pass link though here.
https://threadreaderapp.com/