I don’t understand how they’re allowed to be sold at all to the public. Many cities say it’s illegal to pop them in city limits, but everyone does it anyways. They disturb neighbors, scare the heck out of animals, cause fires, injure over 10,000 people a year and even kill some. We minus well bring back lawn darts.
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I hate fireworks and love lawn darts! Let’s gooooo!
City people are so touchy
Go to india during Diwali. You’ll feel like dying
Sir. This is America.
Run your ass back down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico redcoat
Good proposal. Lawn dart danger is pretty much limited to lawn dart players.
I’ve lived on a street where two houses burned because of someone else’s illegal fireworks.
“we minus well” made me giggle
edit: I was not expecting that 😳 woah!
minus well
Jarts! Had them growing up.
“We minus well…”
Would you say that this is a moo point?
From my cold, dead stumps!!
“We minus well” 😂
I may never stop laughing at this
If they just happened on certain nights than yes they would be fine
But around me they will go off for weeks at a time
If its one night or even two weekends and a night then people can prepare for it
But if its every single night for 3 weeks then its unfair
We have lawn darts. Our 6 and 9 yos love them.
Yes the vintage metal ones.
Lawn darts were a fucking great time. As kids we used to play Over-The-Garage lawn darts. Tremendous fun.
You’re right, they should bring back lawn darts
That’s a new bone apple tea for me. Might as well, not minus well.
Jackass one street over is on night 5 of the month long fireworks nuisance. He started about 45 minutes ago, which means there’s only another 2 hours to endure.
If it was limited to the 3rd/4th/5th, I’d be a lot more tolerant, if mildly annoyed. But it’s JUNE. STFU.
People dunking on your spelling error aside, I could not agree more. It’s literally hell in my city after like 830-9pm for the two weeks leading up to the 4th of July and the whole month following.
It’s funny, we were discussing how silly it is for fireworks to be illegal in Massachusetts since all types are legal in NH and non-exploding types are legal in RI, CT and NY almost every bordering state. It makes it very difficult to get away from them.
I’ve never heard “we minus well” before. I do agree with OP though
poor guy’s argument has been completely dismantled by “minus well”
I have lived my entire life in areas where every single year a fire breaks out on July 4th so I understand banning them.
I was seriously looking for a set of legit steel lawn darts!!!
OMG, they would be fun!
I remember as a kid you could buy dynamite in a hardware store, and an old lady whose husband had passed had a wooden box half full of dynamite in her garage. We convinced her as kids to have the police come take it so her garage didn’t blow up.
For every one person saying they agree, theres like a hundred people who say “oooo lets watch them, this is so cool”. A loud minority here.
But womp womp, MORE FIREWORKS
A lot of things which should be illegal have no practical way to police them. Fireworks is one of those things. The juice isn’t worth the squeeze because tens of thousands of people would break the law simultaneously for the 4th of July. You couldn’t hire enough police to enforce the law/ordinance, the paperwork would go for miles. There would be lawsuit after lawsuit of “profiling” and “over-policing certain neighborhoods” (which honestly would probably be true)
It’s just a logistical nightmare. This is also why prohibition didn’t work and the War on drugs was a complete disaster. There are simply too many people who don’t respect the law around these things (and I’m one of them, weed should be 100% legal everywhere and a significantly lower schedule) that you can’t round up all of the lawbreakers. Simultaneously you take up the capacity of the police and justice system on that load of crap and the already overloaded system again had too much in its plate. There are a truly significant amount of crimes which shouldn’t be enforced but are, and it’s why America had the #1 incarceration rate in the world.
I wish it was enforced but the reality is in any busy city, the police have way more pressing matters to attend to. You can call the police and by the time they arrive the person is gone, they know this which is why they won’t even bother to show up. It’s just not serious enough to them.
Have you tried Parm A Shaun cheese ?
I’d love for fireworks to be the most of this country’s worries.
They also rain garbage from wherever they were launched. Don’t know how many 5ths of July I have spent combing the shores of the Great lakes cleaning up after losers who valued their spectacle above all
Ban commercial fireworks and there will be a million people making their own with black powder and dangerous chemicals. Way safer to just sell them so they can be regulated.
People will still get their hands on them. I’d much prefer them to be regulated and safe than have a bunch of people launching shady illegal explosives into the sky
You’re right.
We should bring back lawn darts.
Move to Massachusetts. It’s the only state with a complete ban on the consumer purchase and use of fireworks. Can’t even buy sparklers within state limits. (That being said, people just buy them out of state and still use them. It’s not very enforced)
Meanwhile China is laughing all the way to the bank
All fireworks must be launched from the ass.
“injure over 10,000 people a year and even kill some” by this measure cats, soda, cigarrettes, and much more should be illegal
Im sorry I thought this was America
Love that this post made it to popular because everyone that saw it is just clowning on op instead of anything about the actual post.
Bruh “minus well” is now my best new boneappletea moment.
Before this one was from one time i was listening in on a convo at team lunch and one lady enthusiastically went “and i digest” when she clearly meant “i digress” and i was surprised the guy she was directly talking to kept a straight face.
No.
Wait til you hear about firearms
Keep them, just remove the safely labels. Problem should sort itself out in a generation or two.
You want more rules/laws limiting people’s freedoms. And then list safety statistics. The issue is that we have tried to govern safety instead of promoting common sense and it doesn’t work. Now the gene pool is full of less intelligent people.
I could say the same about alcohol.
What a better way to celebrate the birth of your country than by blowing up a small part of it.
-simpsons
What’s up with all the deleted replies under the locked minus well comments?
I still have my lawn darts.
This is America