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cigarsarge

cigarsarge

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I'm sitting at the house with my wife and my son comes in with two extremely large boxes of fireworks. I got up to look at the fireworks, concerned because my son has a small income. He says, "I didn't buy them Dad, Mom gave me the money to get them." The freakin bill was nearly $250. :0


As we were blasting money off into the sky only to watch it explode into various colors I told her about the box of cigars I just ordered. Granted it was almost as much as the fireworks, but in MHO more justifiable. Was not a word she could say about my spending today.


Anyway I planned to do a box split on them after they arrive so some of my money will come back. I'll never tell her though. :p
 
Yeah I think my first reaction would have been to slap one or both of them, J/K
But, you are completely justified in your purchase now.
Happy 4th!!
Robert :D
 
We drop about $1000 between 4 neighbors each year...basically to entertain the kids and compete with the other streets....our neighborhood all together has one hell of a show though with the other streets also shooting off

Basically block parties.

-P-
 
Glad ya'll had a great time!

I went to my church and watched a 30 minute firework show. You don't even want to know how much that cost. ;)
 
$250.00 seems to be an average for a home fireworks show. I was at a friend's house on Sunday and it was pretty good. The kids loved it and we got to sit around drinking beer & margaritas and smoking cigars ;)

Connecticut is so uptight about drinking in public, I would rather see a small fireworks show at someone's house that trek all the way to a show and sit in the car or a parking lot where I can't smoke cigars or have a beer.

We also had the option of jumping in the pool, playing horseshoes or volleyball and eating ourselves silly :p

To me THAT is living ;)
 
coventrycat86 said:
$250.00 seems to be an average for a home fireworks show. I was at a friend's house on Sunday and it was pretty good. The kids loved it and we got to sit around drinking beer & margaritas and smoking cigars ;)

Connecticut is so uptight about drinking in public, I would rather see a small fireworks show at someone's house that trek all the way to a show and sit in the car or a parking lot where I can't smoke cigars or have a beer.

We also had the option of jumping in the pool, playing horseshoes or volleyball and eating ourselves silly :p

To me THAT is living ;)
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God Bless America in all her glory!
 
150 for me.
had to drive to pennsylvania....

cough... er um... fireworks are illegal in new york.


i was drunk while setting em off. so were most of my friends.
and i passed some cigars around.


BOOYAH.
 
Fireworks are illegal in New York? Or is that just inside city limits?
 
I wish I had a reason to set off fireworks all of the time :D

Any fireworks that shoot/fly are illegal in Florida but the shops just have you sign a form stating that you are using them to scare rodents away from crops, mark a railroad crossing etc...Every year I get a serious rodent problem in my crops right around the 4th of July :sign:
 
This years backyard show was about $300/$350 between kurt and I. :D

They are also against the law here in Ohio, but they still sell them. They just make you sign a form that states if you are an Ohio res that you will be taking them out of state within 48 hours of the purchase. They even give you a list of city, states and zip codes where it is legal to shot them off.

We started shotting around 9:30 and went until about 12:00. No complantes from the nieghbors......They are all old and they look forward to it every year.....that way they don't have to drive into town to see the legal show. I have even had a couple of them offer donations to help cover the cost.......

BUT I'M MORE THAN GLAD TO PROVIDE THIS SERVES FOR THEM WHILEGETTING COMPLETLY HAMMERED!!!!!! :p
 
This year was the worst! :angry:

Every year me and a buddy of mine opens a firework tent in flatrock (mi) this year we ordered a whole bunch and it all got taken from us!!! :angry:

I dont know how many live in michigan,but I was on the news last saturday. The state police,city police,and bomb unit all came to my tent and took everything we had. We lost about 15,000 each..

I just talked to my lawyer and I might try and go after the city, they gave me the permit and told me I can sell everything that i was selling. Just a whole bunch of bs.

Iam so mad I pisses me off to even talk about it.

-matt
 
thejollyco said:
getting drunk while setting off fireworks is awesome.

SERIOUSLY.

i had grey goose vodka.


and a screwdriver. i forgot my knife.
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You know I am all in favor of both fireworks and drunkeness but I am not sure about the combination of the two.

On my way back to McKinney (near Dallas) from Florida over the weekend there was a huge slowdown on the interstate somewhere near the TX/LA border. Down on the service road to the highway were two drunk redknecks standing in the bed of a 1970 something primer gray full size pickup shooting fireworks (from the same bed they were standing in) up onto the interstate. You would think these fellows would be worried about the nice primer finish of their pickup, let alone their personal safetly being enclosed that close to them. Then there is the other matter of the passing motorists. I really hope it was extreme drunkeness that led to this lack of judgement and not just their extreme stupidity. If it is the latter I hope neither of these gentlemen have offspring.

What seemed more confusing yet is that there was a local sheriff's cruiser with the lights on about 50 yards back from the blast zone but for some reason he wasn't stopping them. Perhaps he was waiting for backup? Maybe this was a township sponsored pyrotechnics display?

I have about 1/2 of a bottle of grey goose up in my liquor cabinet myself. When everyone was taking to the streets and pouring out their Frog liquor I just couldn't see doing that to Vodka. I probably can find another brand of vodka to buy for my next bottle (I am trying to find Shaker's to try it); where I am really torn though is what to do about Allsace wine, the supply I have on hand is dwindleing. Do I stick it to the ribbiting bastages and not buy anymore or do I cave in and support their economy. I digress..... ???

Matt
 
smokers only said:
This year was the worst! :angry:

Every year me and a buddy of mine opens a firework tent in flatrock (mi) this year we ordered a whole bunch and it all got taken from us!!! :angry:

I dont know how many live in michigan,but I was on the news last saturday. The state police,city police,and bomb unit all came to my tent and took everything we had. We lost about 15,000 each..

I just talked to my lawyer and I might try and go after the city, they gave me the permit and told me I can sell everything that i was selling. Just a whole bunch of bs.

Iam so mad I pisses me off to even talk about it.

-matt
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WOW...that sucks..if they gve you a permit then file suit..they would prob settle before it got to court
 
Ya the city came out and said everything was alright. Every city around here dont let you sell class c firworks but ash township, and thats where I was at. Also the permit cost me 1500 and all the other cities only cost 50.00. Iam going to file a suit for sure, I want all the money back that I lost and money that I would have won!

-matt
 
Good luck to you, stick it too them. I can't stand it when people make mistakes that big without checking simple things to make sure they're correct.
 
Cool little piece of info. from the Times from about a week ago.

Apparently the powers that be have raised the legal limit of pyrotechnics allowed in over-the-counter fireworks. Ironically enough, I was wondering why things were looking so much brighter and impressive up at the parent-in-laws place on the lake around the 4th.

Leave it to the Times to answer all questions.
 
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