Car Guy
07-05-2007, 12:04 PM
So last night when we were waiting for the fireworks in St. Francis to start I was talking about how many fireworks you see being lit off in 'populated' neighborhood areas in the past few years. I was thinking back to the late 80's/early-mid 90's [when I was a non-stop firework lighting machine :headbang] and I really can't remember as many people shooting of fireworks, especially on the 4th......
If you think about it there are more places that sell fireworks than ever before [not that there's anything wrong with it], so thery're more accesible than ever. I can remember 'back in the day' when passing through another state that DID sell fireworks we always stopped to get some and it was like we won the lottery.....
Now I haven't been around too long but I'm guessing that the overall public acceptance of fireworks has a 'cycle'. As with anything people always push things to be bigger and better, and with fireworks I think it's going to get to a point of being too much for most people very soon......
[B]Now please chime in if you're older than me and can remember the 60's/70's/early 80's. At any time during then did fireworks get to a point of being 'too much' with people getting hurt and so forth, resulting in public outcry/complaints to outlaw or 'crackdown' on them altogether...???
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If you think about it there are more places that sell fireworks than ever before [not that there's anything wrong with it], so thery're more accesible than ever. I can remember 'back in the day' when passing through another state that DID sell fireworks we always stopped to get some and it was like we won the lottery.....
Now I haven't been around too long but I'm guessing that the overall public acceptance of fireworks has a 'cycle'. As with anything people always push things to be bigger and better, and with fireworks I think it's going to get to a point of being too much for most people very soon......
[B]Now please chime in if you're older than me and can remember the 60's/70's/early 80's. At any time during then did fireworks get to a point of being 'too much' with people getting hurt and so forth, resulting in public outcry/complaints to outlaw or 'crackdown' on them altogether...???
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