Fireworks

[joe yang]

To our many members around the world, what can you get your hands on? What can you get your hands on legally?

[n2shotokai]

Availability is down. Nothing is legal except sparklers in some cities. Mexico is 2 hours away and everything is available.

I believe availability is down due to border crackdowns since 9/11. In addition to dogs, does the border patrol and customs not also have equipment to sniff gunpowder at the border!?

[Mitch Saret]

And how far your willing to travel...when I drive down, and I don't much anymore ( too tiring, I fly :D )On I 75 on the border between GA and TN there is a huge fireworks store. I have never stopped in, but as big as it is, and as much advertising as I have seen, they must have quite a selection.

[Cady Goldfield]

Nothings legal in Massachusetts except caps (those little paper strips of gunpowder you put in a toy gun) and hand-held sparkelers.

That doesn't stop the people on my street from putting on a very impressive Roman candle and skyrocket display every 7/4th. :D They just drive an hour to New Hampshire to pick up fireworks.

[elder999]

Quite a bit, actually. The grocery stores sell them around the 4th and other holidays, and what you can't get there you can get on the reservations, even with the drought and forest fires...:rolleyes:

[Shitoryu Dude]

Just about anything is available on the reservations in the way of fireworks. Off the reservation it is pretty tightly controlled - to the point that I don't even bother with it anymore.

:beer:

[william northcote]

Here in the UK, they are sold all year round and come in varied sizes. Most range from bangers/firecrackers (although firecrackers are banned), to blast bombs and nearly large enough for public displays.

Standard and Black cat fireworks are the main suppliers, where Brocks, where my mom made bangers at 16, is now obselete.

On TV last night, a programme on the emergency services was shown how hectic it can get around Guy Fawkes night (11/5). One officer said that a telephone kiosk was blown to bits by a blast bomb, sending the door 35 feet from the original position, and this is a over the counter toy :D .

when I was 14, I purchased a land mine firework, placed it on open ground and sent the entire street out thinking a bomb had gone off :p , oh the fun of it.

[Chiburi]

Originally posted by Will Northcote
when I was 14, I purchased a land mine firework, placed it on open ground and sent the entire street out thinking a bomb had gone off :p , oh the fun of it.

Good ol' times, eh? I remember having had fun with a few friends blowing up bangers in steel tubes placed inside tunnels when people were in it, most often resulting in very audible bangs and the passers-by freaking out. These days I'm wondering how the fella at the local shop sold all kinds of explosive devices to 10-year-old brats...with obviously bad intentions :rolleyes:

PS. The country was Belgium, not Finland

Cheers,

[joe yang]

I just went into my first fireworks store here in Florida. (The year of the Monkey is almost on us.) It was a religious experience. I can get fireworks, there has to be a god. Fireworks are the test of democracy. Fireworks are the mark of civilization. They are what seperates us from the animals.

"May the good Lord take a liking to you and blow you up real soon."

[Joseph Svinth]

If you want something impressive, see if your local commercial fisheries store offers seal bombs. Intended to keep dolphins and seals away from tuna or salmon, they're also commonly used to harrass SCUBA-using fisheries inspectors.

http://www.ogc.doc.gov/ogc/legreg/testimon/108f/lecky0819.htm