To you Americans!

**notnamed** · July 6th, 2006, 14:36

Interestingly enough, even though Indiana made it legal for aerial fireworks to be shot off from private property, someone (Indiana emergency management? The hospitals? Firefighters? I don't remember) reported that there was not that much of a difference in the amount of fireworks-related injuries. The city is considering an ordinance on how loud fireworks can be and how late they can be shot off, though. Thankfully.

**Bruce** · July 6th, 2006, 15:56

Fireworks, legal? What? That's a foreign concept.

I hear sparklers are legal here.

**Tree** · July 6th, 2006, 16:10

In Georgia it's:

Non-aeriel, non-exploding pyrotechnics.

It's crap.

**Ben** · July 6th, 2006, 17:38

Originally Posted by Tree

In Georgia it's:

It's crap.

Which leaves us with sparklers. My friends and I made up for it by building a potato cannon that's really powerful and a carrot gun thats not as strong.

**Html_Man** · July 6th, 2006, 23:11

ok ya...............

**Tree** · July 7th, 2006, 09:54

Originally Posted by Ben

Which leaves us with sparklers. My friends and I made up for it by building a potato cannon that's really powerful and a carrot gun thats not as strong.

**GamePhreak** · July 7th, 2006, 11:24

Originally Posted by Robert

July 4, 1776 is when we won our independence.

Actually, that's the day the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress. Congress actually declared our independence by secret ballot on July 2, and we didn't actually win our independence until the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolution (I don't know what you call the war in the UK) and was signed on September 3, 1783, and ratified by Congress on January 14, 1784.

Independence Day is an awesome movie.

Fireworks are illegal in Ohio, but the police pretty much just look the other way.

**ITahmed** · July 12th, 2006, 20:24

Fireworks are legal in VA.... in MD it is illegal and you can go to court for it.... Once I was driving through MD with fireworks (just a couple) and the officer stopped me for speeding, gave me hell b/c he saw the firework in the back seat. He said that it should be in a place that was not visible to him... seized it and said he will see me in court... I never heard back from anyone.... MD and VA are states next to each other (for people that do not know)

**veggie1232** · July 13th, 2006, 04:50

i live in usa

someone save me

**Tree** · July 13th, 2006, 09:08

Originally Posted by veggie1232

i live in usa

someone save me

Oh go ----- to the French about how America sucks. They'll go right along with you.

Originally Posted by That guy up there

Fireworks are legal in VA.... in MD it is illegal and you can go to court for it.... Once I was driving through MD with fireworks (just a couple) and the officer stopped me for speeding, gave me hell b/c he saw the firework in the back seat. He said that it should be in a place that was not visible to him... seized it and said he will see me in court... I never heard back from anyone.... MD and VA are states next to each other (for people that do not know)

He just wanted some fireworks.