about 800 bucks.
Gonna put on a show at the party Friday and Saturday.
mmmm - blow stuff up...my favorite holiday.
Gonna put on a show at the party Friday and Saturday.
mmmm - blow stuff up...my favorite holiday.
Haven't spent a lick on fireworks. For some reason, they just get anti-climactic to me. I'm such a lamer.
Nothing yet. Looking for somebody to chip in some $$ so I can buy one of these
(It's called a Big Bertha - it's made of 16,000 firecrackers!! And only $199!!)
That's the good thing about living in IN - you can have just about anything, as long as you buy your $2 fireworks permit, and promise to only shoot them off at an approved location (yeah, right!)
(It's called a Big Bertha - it's made of 16,000 firecrackers!! And only $199!!)
That's the good thing about living in IN - you can have just about anything, as long as you buy your $2 fireworks permit, and promise to only shoot them off at an approved location (yeah, right!)
JetsFanatic
Platinum Member
Are there any good fireworks stands in the Bay Area or Northern CA?
Also, so... do they allow you to buy exploding fireworks at Indian Reservations? If so, I wonder if they're any in the bay area... Anyone??
Also, so... do they allow you to buy exploding fireworks at Indian Reservations? If so, I wonder if they're any in the bay area... Anyone??
Went to Phantom Fireworks in New Albany. Right across the river from louisville, KY. got some 500 gram repreaters this year.
mmmm - half a kilogram of gunpowder...mmmmm. KABOOOM!!!
"Copy of jugs, some chewing tobacco, some vasoline, case of beer"
"will that be all sir"
"where are the illegal fireworks"
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Marge - "I don't know what you have planned for this evening but you can count me out"
Something like that, its the simpsons where they go to ned's beach house and lisa make some friends.
my dad and me spent about a $1000 this year...the most we spent so far...since we were in North Carolina we just travled about hour and a half south on the border of SC & NC to a brand new place that opened called Shelton Fireworks www.sheltonfireworks.com check it out!!! Man our neighbors are going to love us this year!! LOL...BTW we live in ohio where there illegal..o well
I'm saving my money for booze.
Benefit of living on border town = Canada Day and Independence Day.
- M4H
Benefit of living on border town = Canada Day and Independence Day.
- M4H
I used to spend about $150 ~ $200 in Michigan on illegal fireworks, but its been a few years since I've purchased any.
There was a little town near where I lived in Michigan who had 'legalized' the sale of fireworks which were prohibited in the state provided that the seller obtained a permit from the town and the purchaser signed an agreement to the effect that he intended to transport the fireworks out of state and not resell them or use them in Michigan.
So for a few years, until the Michigan Attorney General got word of it and directed the Michigan State Police to start cracking down, you could get any kind of firework legal under federal law in this town.
Even after, it wasn't hard to find people peddling stuff. This Greek guy owned a gas station down the road, he brought back a few thousand dollars worth of fireworks from Missouri or where ever and sold them out of his garage to people he knew.
Then I got adventurous and decided to make my own fireworks. Since I had 'experimented' with stuff like rockets and mortars ever since I was a kid, it seemed like the logical thing to do. ;-)
But that was when you could order just about anything you wanted with a copy of your driver's license and a signature. Now, of course, this kind of thing is frowned upon by the feds and you might get a visit from the BATF for ordering chemicals through the mail. Ahhh, yes, I think they call it "progress".
My favorite was a "ground cake" of aerial repeaters, 49 1-1/2" tubes bundled together in a 7x7 arrangment, each tube containing one aerial shot. Each shot was composed of six colored stars, some glitter, and a powerful flash report (more powerful than any of the commercially produced cakes).
Its a real hell raiser, guaranteed to summon the police. One year, while attending the City of Saginaw's fireworks display, about 30 minutes before the display began, I [covertly] climbed to the top of a training tower use by the Saginaw Fire Department, placed two of them at the top of the platform about 50' high, lit them both then scurried back down that platform like a banshee to get the hell out of there before they started. I hurt myself climbing back over the damned fence but it was worth it.
Those things went off and you could hear the crowd screaming and cheering all the way down the river. It seemed like they just went on forever. Of course there was about 20 cops swarming the area immediately after but nobody saw who did it because it was dark, and I wasn't about to confess. heh
There was a little town near where I lived in Michigan who had 'legalized' the sale of fireworks which were prohibited in the state provided that the seller obtained a permit from the town and the purchaser signed an agreement to the effect that he intended to transport the fireworks out of state and not resell them or use them in Michigan.
So for a few years, until the Michigan Attorney General got word of it and directed the Michigan State Police to start cracking down, you could get any kind of firework legal under federal law in this town.
Even after, it wasn't hard to find people peddling stuff. This Greek guy owned a gas station down the road, he brought back a few thousand dollars worth of fireworks from Missouri or where ever and sold them out of his garage to people he knew.
Then I got adventurous and decided to make my own fireworks. Since I had 'experimented' with stuff like rockets and mortars ever since I was a kid, it seemed like the logical thing to do. ;-)
But that was when you could order just about anything you wanted with a copy of your driver's license and a signature. Now, of course, this kind of thing is frowned upon by the feds and you might get a visit from the BATF for ordering chemicals through the mail. Ahhh, yes, I think they call it "progress".
My favorite was a "ground cake" of aerial repeaters, 49 1-1/2" tubes bundled together in a 7x7 arrangment, each tube containing one aerial shot. Each shot was composed of six colored stars, some glitter, and a powerful flash report (more powerful than any of the commercially produced cakes).
Its a real hell raiser, guaranteed to summon the police. One year, while attending the City of Saginaw's fireworks display, about 30 minutes before the display began, I [covertly] climbed to the top of a training tower use by the Saginaw Fire Department, placed two of them at the top of the platform about 50' high, lit them both then scurried back down that platform like a banshee to get the hell out of there before they started. I hurt myself climbing back over the damned fence but it was worth it.
Those things went off and you could hear the crowd screaming and cheering all the way down the river. It seemed like they just went on forever. Of course there was about 20 cops swarming the area immediately after but nobody saw who did it because it was dark, and I wasn't about to confess. heh
MustangSVT
Lifer
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Anubis
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Heh, nobody answered your question..
Anything that goes boom is illegal in Washington, too.. Well, besides things that go boom in the air.. like bottlerockets.
If you're interested in going to a res, I can tell you how to get to a very small indian reservation on the Washington side of the river..
It's on the Washington side.. I really have no idea how far. Quite a ways, though. Maybe a bit shy of Hood River, only on the other side. You have to watch carefully, it's called Cooks Landing. There is a small sign on the right hand side. It's a very small reservation, about the size of a long driveway..
But they have like 3 firework stands setup, lol... That's where we usually go, because it's closer than Warm Springs.
If you go On the 4th, you can get awesome deals.. although most of the big things, like M80s, are gone.
Anything that goes boom is illegal in Washington, too.. Well, besides things that go boom in the air.. like bottlerockets.
If you're interested in going to a res, I can tell you how to get to a very small indian reservation on the Washington side of the river..
It's on the Washington side.. I really have no idea how far. Quite a ways, though. Maybe a bit shy of Hood River, only on the other side. You have to watch carefully, it's called Cooks Landing. There is a small sign on the right hand side. It's a very small reservation, about the size of a long driveway..
But they have like 3 firework stands setup, lol... That's where we usually go, because it's closer than Warm Springs.
If you go On the 4th, you can get awesome deals.. although most of the big things, like M80s, are gone.
Oh, and to answer your question.. I'll probably spend about 30 bucks on them. But not for the 4th..
Going to pick some up in Washington on the way to pick my girlfriend up on the 4th. We're going to save them to light off at the beach when we go camping there.
Going to pick some up in Washington on the way to pick my girlfriend up on the 4th. We're going to save them to light off at the beach when we go camping there.
Schadenfroh
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- Mar 8, 2003
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I'll be the 20th person or so to say
$0
I just feel it's burning money unless there were kids around to enjoy it with.
mimendo, that $1000 better be buying you strippers or something with your mini-fireworks show
$0
I just feel it's burning money unless there were kids around to enjoy it with.
mimendo, that $1000 better be buying you strippers or something with your mini-fireworks show
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