Worst Fireworks Show Ever

I can't believe Bloomberg hates America, fireworks, and freedom so much.
 
I assume fireworks are illegal in New York and they're disposing of confiscated fireworks?
 
I agree that sucked...... but only as it was done during the day, that would have looked awesome in the dark.
 
Would have been better if the camera had been further away so that we could see the size of the explosions.
 
That would have been okay if they had fans blowing the smoke away, and/or it was at night. Lame.
 
You would think they would have cooked them off in a confined space. Hell of a mess to clean up with everything shooting out, all over the pace.
 
Ehren8879 said:
You would think they would have cooked them off in a confined space. Hell of a mess to clean up with everything shooting out, all over the pace.
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Why? More taxpayer money towards the clean up = more jobs!!!11
 
What a waste.. Gov can't do anything right. Surely there is some form of revenue in those fireworks instead of just blasting them off in a big heap.
 
While viewing that video, this guy came to mind..

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Also not the professional way to dispose of expired, dud, or unwanted fireworks. What do you think Zambelli, Pyrotechnico, or PGI members do with duds? They soak them in water.

I guess I do have family in the industry, but Jesus, you'd think a bomb squad would know what to do. All it would have taken is for one extremely powerful explosive firework or large mortar round to sent the rest of the pile flying and doubling-if not tripling the blast zone instantly.

Judging by the distance the camera is, and the fact that it was bumped by someone, they were too close.
 
Brak710 said:
Also not the professional way to dispose of expired, dud, or unwanted fireworks. What do you think Zambelli, Pyrotechnico, or PGI members do with duds? They soak them in water.

I guess I do have family in the industry, but Jesus, you'd think a bomb squad would know what to do. All it would have taken is for one extremely powerful explosive firework or large mortar round to sent the rest of the pile flying and doubling-if not tripling the blast zone instantly.

Judging by the distance the camera is, and the fact that it was bumped by someone, they were too close.
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If fireworks had been legal in NY, those officers would have known how to handle them (from their childhood).

Fireworks were just legalized in Maine again due to all the people hurting themselves while making their own.
 
I like it, i do stuff like this every year with fireworks and lighter fluid
 
I don't know, but that seemed like the most unsafe way to do that. As someone else said, they could've atleast done it in a more confined/controlled space. That barrier is obviously set too close, and they had those things firing off in every direction.

:rolleyes:
 
Fireworks are illegal in NY but you would've never guessed that if you live here. All hell was breaking loose last night! Tons of fireworks going off all over the place.
 
Fucking dumbasses, don't they know you need to do fireworks AT NIGHT :p

That said there was a bevy of huge fireworks (the illegal kind), even though in San Francisco they're ALL illegal, and yanno what, not a single fucking house burned down, fire engines weren't rushing all over the place to put them out. Nothing. They bitch that they're a hazard (and ok M-80s and other huge explosive ones I can agree with), but the reality of it is they probably make more money giving out citations than they'd make if they were legal and that's the only fucking reason they do it.
 
Oh, and going to my cousin's house in one city that still is legal to use ... Safe & Sane fireworks are so god damn lame nowadays... when I was kid, they were 10x better (and that's still excluding the illegal stuff)
 
sfsuphysics said:
Oh, and going to my cousin's house in one city that still is legal to use ... Safe & Sane fireworks are so god damn lame nowadays... when I was kid, they were 10x better (and that's still excluding the illegal stuff)
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Yeah, even out in Central Valley where it is legal in some towns, the weak-ass fireworks they charge obscene amounts for aren't even worth it.
 
I'd bet half a baloney sandwich that those cops didn't light up all the fireworks that was confiscated with a bunch of it mysteriously "missing"?
 
Saw a fireworks display YEARS ago in a little town in New Mexico where my fiance had relatives that we were visiting. Somebody decided the local fire department were the closest thing to "pyrotechnics experts" they were going to get on their budget and had them be the ones handling the July 4th fireworks display for the town. About 2 minutes into it stuff started to go wrong and it went from being one of the duller ways to spend a 4th of July to 20 minutes of solid AWESOME. You could see silhouettes of people running back in forth in front of the launch tubes they had set out, they lost "music sync" about 45 seconds in so they just turned the music off (which meant you could hear the yelling and screaming going on as they desperately tried to find their collective asses with nary a funnel to be found), and - my favorite part - somebody kicked over a tube by accident; have you ever seen one of those giant "night blossoms" go off on the ground? If you haven't, imagine it and then multiply it by 10 and it still falls short; we were watching it from the hood of a car in a parking lot about a half mile off and adding "YAAAAA-hoo-hoo-hoo-HOOEEY" sound effects where appropriate...best 4th of July EVAR...
 
A couple years ago a couple friends and I were sitting outside in long beach, ca. A friend who worked for long beach p.d. came over and "accidentally" mentioned that some confiscated fireworks ended up in certain dumpsters....
 
Brak710 said:
I guess I do have family in the industry, but Jesus, you'd think a bomb squad would know what to do. All it would have taken is for one extremely powerful explosive firework or large mortar round to sent the rest of the pile flying and doubling-if not tripling the blast zone instantly.
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This. It looked like they set them in series with a master fuse, so some would go off later than others. There were fireworks containers being thrown around, so some fireworks may have partially ignited or not at all. That's a HUGE UXO (unexploded ordinance) risk. I can see someone trying to clean up the mess and having fireworks going off when moved. The person who signed off on doing that should be fired.

(Fireworks can be safe when used or disposed of properly, but that was not safe or proper.)
 
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worst mess I have ever seen, Ft. Belvior Va 4th of July 1984, whoever set up the display was a bunch of idiots.

from the start, you could tell something was horribly wrong, several tubes had weak lifting charges, until a large shell, went up about 50 feet, hit the ground and bounced into one of the racks of mortars I had one shot left on my 35mm, and managed to capture the shell when it went off. The dispay was on the baseball field, and we were on an adjacent football feild.

I had the picture enlarged to an 8x10, you can see the football goalposts in the foreground, they look like they covering only 1/10 the field of view, while the stars from the shell cover the field of view from top to bottom.

everyone thought that was neat as hell, then the rack of mortars detonated all at once, felt like being to damn close to a 155mm artillery barrage. freakin ground was shaking, people were screaming and running like hell.

I lost that picture during a PCS move later, still makes me mad as hell, one of the best pics I have ever taken.
 
because water wouldn't have rendered those fireworks completely useless

they need to put on a better show or stop toying with us.
 
I live in Alabama. One of the very few good things about living in this state is...

Bottle Rockets: Legally Allowed
Sky Rockets: Legally Allowed
Roman Candles: Legally Allowed
Firecrackers: Legally Allowed
Sparklers: Legally Allowed
Smoke and Punk: Legally Allowed
Fountains: Legally Allowed
Missiles: Legally Allowed
Novelties: Legally Allowed
Crackle and Strobe: Legally Allowed
Parachutes: Legally Allowed
Wheels and Spinners: Legally Allowed
Sky Flyers: Legally Allowed
Display Shells: Legally Allowed
Aerial Items (Cakes): Legally Allowed

...fireworks galore. Saturn rockets, roman candles, sparklers, firecrackers, bottle rockets, jumping jacks, I had them all growing up. Never got hurt, never had anything catch on fire (that wasn't supposed to).
 
So they do this to prevent fire hazards? From the video its obvious this is more of a fire hazard than some kid with jumping jacks or black cats.
 
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