Advice about illegal fireworks

[cbac]

Re: Advice about illegal fireworks

Why not load the 50 cal with dummy loads, no projectile, it stills makes the big noise but there's no projectile flying about.


Our county has a ban on fireworks in the city limits. They have fire personel that hang out by the stands and report the license plates of customers that head back into the city in possession.

If they head out to the cotton fields to shoot off the rockets etc then it's ok. Nothing to burn up out there but dirt.
People get through, they take the long way back into town like smugglers. Some of them ran out to the beach, a favorite place to shoot off rockets.
Generally it's safe if the winds from the dunes. This year it was an offshore wind and several thousand acres burnt up.
Multiple rural grass and brush fires happened all over the state due to sloppy planning when firing off rockets.

I generally check the state parks etc and see if there's a burning ban in place. If so then no rockets.

 

[oddjob]

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Well, a friend of mine had a problem once and he did spaek to his neighbor about it. Fire or fun was not the issue. It was the ceramic beads that are dispersed from the arial explosions that pounded the paint of three cars in his driveway. Neighbor said tuff. Buddie called his home owners insurance who investigated and then notified the neighbors home insurance and all three cars had to be repainted. Neighbor had to pay deductable.
I usually put a tarp over my vehicles and take this opportunity to get in some bb gun target practice around the house.

 

[jay_merrill]

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Good post and just another example of why this sort of thing is not ok. What always hits me about these situations is that there are so many who are quick to say that the affected neighbor is being unfriendly or is "whiney" for not allowing him/herself to be negatively impacted by someone else's selfishness and thoughtlessness. You know, I might be a "big ole meany," but I'm not about to allow my family, home and vehicles to be put at jeopardy just because some immature adult thinks he or she can do whatever they feel like.

 

[v1_0]

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I can only presume you typo'd that 'not' as a bullet shot at a target would be travalling toward that target much faster than its terminal velocity.

I actually meant something along the lines of "not decrease to terminal velocity."

 

[v1_0]

Re: Advice about illegal fireworks

Why not load the 50 cal with dummy loads, no projectile, it stills makes the big noise but there's no projectile flying about.

I like those "popper" rounds for the shotgun. No need to sling a lot of lead around if all you want to do is make some noise. And I don't need to whip out the ole slide rule to figure out where that 1 oz slug is going to land, or how much KE it will have when it gets there.