Major Variola (ret) wrote:
At 12:21 PM 1/12/04 -0500, Nostradumbass@SAFe-mail.net wrote:
There was a mildly publicized incident in another part of Brooklyn
recently where someone was ticketed after their child's balloon popped in public.
I recently asked a NYC friend if he had popped off firecrackers in NY Square recently. He hadn't, spoilsport.
Over here in Eurotrash statist London people set off fireworks all over the place, for all sorts of excuses. I probably hear or see some sort of firework party about once a week, sometimes just in someone's back garden. And real ones too, rockets & mortars, not namby-pamby "firecrackers". Also sometimes a big public affair - it seems to be the current fashion to use lots of fireworks when a construction project is finished. In the weeks around our big bonfire celebrations in November kids throw them in the streets for a laugh. Though they are getting more available at other times of the year now. The other week I noticed two firework shops within a few yards of each other in leafy north London suburb of Barnet. Some nanny-staters (usually conservatives who fear teenagers and think that all proles should be locked in their hutches at night watching TV and eatng junk food) write to the newspapers and demand that fireworks should be banned. The government has pathetically caved in to the extent that they intend to introduce local bans on setting off fireworks after 11pm. I don't think that public opinion would hold with the kind of restrictions on fireworks that many US states seem to have.