By now I guess most people have heard about the poor drunk fool from my state who killed himself by trying to fire a fireworks mortar tube off from the top of his head, no doubt to impress his equally drunken friends. I'm surprised to read he's only the first to get killed, many have been hurt, I would guess some actually maimed. Last night here was the worst I've heard yet, if it were as dry as it sometimes is at the 4th of July I'd probably be homeless and writing this from some homeless shelter, our woods blazing.
They should require at least as much training for setting off serious fireworks as they do cutting hair. Some of them are as dangerous if not more so than guns AND THEY ARE SET OFF IN RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS. From back yards, for the love of Mike. Someone told me that their friend spent all night in fear as her idiot neighbors set off two pallets full of fire works. Though I'd suspect they didn't set all of them off and she might have one or more nights of anxiety ahead.
We won't ban fireworks again till one or more big, expensive structures owned by connected fat cats get burned down or some rich person gets killed. Just another of the benefits of Democrats losing the election in 2010 and us getting the criminal and odious Paul LePage and a raft of some of the worst Republican goons in the legislature in living memory. Despite that movie I posted yesterday, fireworks are nothing for idiots to be setting off. They don't require training or sobriety to set them off, it's a disaster waiting to happen. And, as the tragedy in Calais shows, it's already here.
Was just driving past the shuttered fireworks outlets, closed again until late December, and thinking about how heavily regulated that "industry" is, and no one in D.C. or wherever, ever complains about the heavy hand of government on the sales and manufacture and even use of fireworks.
ReplyDeleteAnd how it really isn't heavy enough, because the fool things should be banned outright, to be used only by those holding licenses and using them for a public performance equally licensed. Too freakin' dangerous for people to use; danger to the users and to others, as you point out.
Thinking about your comments on Tayler's latest screed: the Pope got Cuba and the U.S. to re-establish diplomatic relations.
ReplyDeleteWhat has Fremen accomplished?