Jul
2008
the fireworks were fantastic!
July 5th, 2008 at 10:56 am by wRitErsbLock in UncategorizedWe had debated about whether or not we should go somewhere to see the fireworks last night. We considered Lake Eola and Sea World, but in the end, we decided to stay home and see how much the people across the street spent.
Kids, I imagine the show we saw in our cul-du-sac was at least as good as, if not better than, whatever Lake Eola, Sea World, Universal, or Disney put on last night. Good grief, I can only imagine the thousands of dollars they spent on illegal explosives. The show was all the better because you have the drunken moron factor. No less than four mortars blew up in the street instead of launching into the air. We were a safe distance away, comfy in our home theater chairs (**cough**lawn chairs**cough**) in our driveway, with our pathetic $35 pile of non-airborne explosives. Really, how do they afford so many impressive explosives?
Like morons, they started launching before it was dark out. But even with wasting many mortars in daylight, they still had almost three hours of fireworks that you see put on by professionals for big cities. Three hours of super-impressive, sometimes scary fireworks. It was spectacular.
Funny to watch various people from their party realize their vehicles, parked in the cul-du-sac, were in the danger zone and move them to other locations. They really had a lot of people over, so maybe everyone brought their thousands of dollars stashes over and that’s how they had such an impressive show.
Did you go out to see fireworks?
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Your 2¢
You state that they are illegal. I wonder why the police didn’t show up during that 3 hour show. I know they are busy but honestly 3 hours and not a single cop showed up. That would make me feel real safe.
so many people in Orlando do the illegal fireworks, I’m sure the police are too bogged down. Not to mention the obscene number of calls they get for people who fire guns into the air only to have the bullets come back down (gravity anyone?) and maim a bystander.
According to a few local police acquaintances of mine, they tend to look the other way or downgrade “illegal” fireworks calls to non-priority on the Fourth unless there is a direct threat to person or property, at least in this neck of the woods. They have WAY too many bigger fish to fry to bother with petty neighbor complaints about shooting off fireworks, especially in celebration of our country’s independence.
Usually on the Fourth we will get as close as we can to a good vantage point of the nearest locale’s fireworks so we can enjoy the show, but get the hell out and home when it ends before the mass traffic exodus. This year we stayed home and set off some semi-legal fireworks in our driveway. Being that we live out in the boonies and there are dry conditions, we kept a fully charged garden hose handy in case of oopsies. Plus we had an impressive show from our neighbors, who were setting off some likely illegal fireworks from their yard, the kind that shoot up and explode like most of your larger public displays. And didn’t attract attention from a single cop.
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