With the 4th of July only four and a half days away from the day of this posting, I thought I'd do something different this year. This is a poll question of what fireworks are, and are not, allowed where you live.
long short medum all messed up. :p detached retina/nerve damige lefft eye
some nerve damige and a bad cataract in the right.
and severely nearsighted since birth.
if i were to ware coke bottle glasses that would be an improvement over what ii ware now :p
actuiily ffinaly getting the cataract taken care of soon i hope i've been bouncing from eyedoc to eyedoc past few months. I'm in Sourch caronina and gota go to atlanta Ga for the next test becos they cant get a reading on how long my eye is to make the repacement lense they put in.
i hope they can get a good reading would feel wierd not having to ware glasses for avrige use and to get back clear details (i'm using clear in relitive terms to what i could see beffore thing thing got bad not relitive to someone with good eyes) and get my color preception fully back will be great.
might even get enough back to ride a bike again.
example when i have to travel on my own i use a second hand power chair (yes i can walk but you get tierd of walking everywhere) i've maniged to role off a sidewalk a few times wiithout catching it first. and now even i thiink thiis is halarious so pleas laugh
i whent down the road to the local grocery store got me a few things and headed back out to home. now coming out of the store parking lot into a strippmall lot i used a big sign to signle me to start turning. now it was a verry big sign i had no idea it was moble... some one moved it. so i turned early. and as ii'm realising that my seroundings werent matching up with my internal map CLANG!!!!!!!!! i run smack dead center at full speed (all of about 4 or 5 mph) into a pole. i get up to see if i did any damige to my chair or whatever i hit i look up squint for a bit and scan the sigh to figure out what it was.
it
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Handycap parking.
pole.
i emeditly broke out laughing so hard i had to sit down. i lauged the whole trip home.
long short medum all messed up. :p detached retina/nerve damige lefft eye some nerve damige and a b
Well, some weeks ago, the town held a fireworks show at Memorial Park as the cap of a day's festivities. I walked down there and soon wished I had lugged a folding chair, as none were provided for visitors. Parking problems ruled out driving there,tho.
I don't think personal use of fireworks is legal where I live. Yet a few times in past years somebody set off fireworks down the street. I;ve seen them and my house even got hit by at least one ! I still have the burst shell of the thing. i think the police investigated. Dude !
I live in NJ.
Well, some weeks ago, the town held a fireworks show at Memorial Park as the cap of a day's festivit
Nothing is allowed where I live. Nonetheless, every year, a few people go to the ER after holding firecrackers, and a few houses burn down from errant bottle rockets. It isn't just about "Uncle Sam doesn't want you to have fun."
Nothing is allowed where I live. Nonetheless, every year, a few people go to the ER after holding fi
The people who end up in the ER having damage to their hands, faces and other assorted body parts from the "Hey, watch this!" followed by sticking an explosive device into a sensitive spot say that, yes, it's actually a good idea that we don't have these. There's really no way to filter out the idiots.
In the case of the house fires (one of which, five years ago, took the hundred-year-old house up my block) the idiots end up hurting others. In that case, it was a bottle rocket into the woodpile, and the people who shot it and lost a family their home were never caught. It's always dry as a bone here in July, and one spark in the wrong place is a recipe for disaster.
It's not about treating you like an idiot. It's about making sure the idiots don't screw it up for you.
The people who end up in the ER having damage to their hands, faces and other assorted body parts fr
If they outlawed something everytime someone does somethng stupid with it, we wouldn't have any more liberties left than the people of North Korea have.
What most folks don't understand is, being stupid has never come cheap, it doesn't come cheap, and it never will come cheap...Being stupid has had, has, and will always have a price tag. And that price tag should not include everyone else's freedom and liberty. Maybe I'm from the old school, but there was a day and time it was seen that way.
There are always going to be those lizard brains out there who need to lay down before they hurt themselves.
If they outlawed something everytime someone does somethng stupid with it, we wouldn't have any more
In the case of most other items that, coupled with stupidity, can cause serious injury or death, they're items people need for at least something. Fireworks are nothing but an entertainment item.
As said, the primary reason they get banned is because of the fire danger. But areas which haven't banned most fireworks typically still ban bottle rockets (because of the tendency for the still-smoldering body to land in hidden spots) and large firecrackers (because they're so destructive; ever seen what a real M-80 can do?)
In the case of most other items that, coupled with stupidity, can cause serious injury or death, the
Yes, I've seen what an M-80 can do...I lit quite a few of them when I was a teenager. And not the watered down versions of M-80s they have today. The ones I lit in the late 1960s and early 1970s were the older powerful ones that could rip a bean can into about four pieces, or blow an old sneaker to several pieces...I once blew a bean can apart and one of the pieces was curved out into the opposite direction from which the canning plant had originally curved it. My friends, relatives and myself lit many of those and none of us ever blew a hand off.
As far as there are things people need, what about electric toy and hobby train sets?...Did you know there was an activist group in the late 1970s that wanted to outlaw model electric train sets on the federal level because "a kid might get electrocuted"...Like a kid is going to stand in a water filled bath tub and dangle a plugged in power control transformer into the water, while his parents with IQs of 13 and 20 make a VCR video of it (VCR being what was around in the 1970s).
Poeple get hurt and killed snow skiing, water skiing, surfing, mountain climbing, motor cycle riding, bicycle racing and contact sports, and those are not things people need, but it would be silly to outlaw those activities.
At beaches, people get eaten by sharks each year, and there are the lizard brains who play it stupid with rip tides and undertows, but we are not going to close all beaches down.
There was a deadly accident caused by a malfunctioning thrill ride at a state fair a few days ago (either Indiana or Ohio)...I don't think we should outlaw all those rides except for merry-go-rounds and Barney the Dinosaur's Choo-Choo Train Ride.
Before you could achieve a 100% safe world where someone being hurt is unheard of, you would have to have the whole population living the lifestyle of toddlers and infants.
What are your thoughts on the nationwide 55 mph sreed limit of the late 1970s and early 1980s? It was started with the false notion there was an oil shortage. But it was kept around as long as it was on the notion that people will die if they drive at 70 mph. A few years after that speed limit was enacted, it was decided the 55 mph speed limit was going to be a permanant law of the land.
Yes, I've seen what an M-80 can do...I lit quite a few of them when I was a teenager. And not the wa
Now, speaking personally, the only one of those I'm in favor of bans on is (certain types of) fireworks, primarily because they do have a habit of landing in the wrong place and starting house and brush fires. Firecrackers don't bother ME that much-- if someone is determined to shove one in their butt and light it, I hate that, but that's up to them, and they're the only one who'll get hurt. With bottle rockets, the shooter might be fine, but the family down the street may have their house burn down. This opinion applies only to those types which may, unknown to the user, drop a smoldering object somewhere.
Now, speaking personally, the only one of those I'm in favor of bans on is (certain types of) firewo
