Fireworks , are you ready ?

[hawkman]

I was not , , lol .
Many years ago I was a spectator to my two brother-in-laws shooting bottle rockets . I was on the back porch of the house where I thought I was safe .
My BIL was placing a bottle rocket in a bottle and shooting it straight up into the sky , he was about 20 feet away from where I was standing .
He lights a bottle rocket and the next instant I realize I have that bottle rocket still burning and then exploding down in my shirt 2!
After it explodes in my shirt my brother-in-laws are laughing their heads off at me , I guess I was doing the fireworks are in my clothes dance , lol .
On examination I found out that the rocket got between my sweater and shirt I had on and burned a nice large hole in my shirt and my undershirt was smoked up some but my sweater unharmed , but my dignity was majorly damaged . LOL .

Bottom line . If you are watching fireworks burn and explode make sure kin folk are not lighting them , lol .

 

[Christian Saboteur]

Some years ago on the 4th of July my one friend had acquired a commercial fireworks shell,he couldn't wait to launch it safely.Thats when another friend showed up,in their drunken haste they found a piece of terra-cotta pipe to use as a "Mortar Tube".By this time I had taken refuge behind the corner of a house.They lit the foot long fuse and dropped the shell into the pipe,the only problem was,the shell was upside down.There was a very bright and loud Ka-Boom with a large fan shaped shower of multi-colored stars ,right after I heard someone Yell,Run!!!.Nobody got hurt,somehow.If you think a fireworks shell is bright up in the sky,you should see one explode in someone's backyard.

 

[Corn Pop]

The good ol days when they were legal and people had fun, now im only allowed to watch them by professional pyrotechnics at public displays.

 

[Corn Pop]

Oh yea, its new years eve so thats like the most quiet night of the year for me.