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A deadly accident has Hawaii officials pleading for an end to amateur fireworks shows [three killed, twenty injured]

11 comments

  1. [8]
    koopa
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    Fireworks are seriously getting out of hand. My neighborhood has a common lawn across houses with front doors facing each other. One of our neighbors decided this year on New Years that shooting...

    Fireworks are seriously getting out of hand.

    My neighborhood has a common lawn across houses with front doors facing each other. One of our neighbors decided this year on New Years that shooting fireworks into the sky in the middle of everyone’s houses was a great idea. This ended up with fireworks flying around for hours, shooting to hit my front window with dead flammable bushes in front of it. As I finally went out to confront them I saw them accidentally shooting one into their open front door and smoking up the entire place as they panicked to put the fire out.

    A couple years ago I also called in a fire started by teenagers doing fireworks at the base of a small mountain that had set the entire mountainside on fire before firefighters could arrive.

    I’m not sure if I’d say ban all fireworks, but I sure wouldn’t stand up against it.

    20 votes
    1. updawg
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      I have some generally good memories of private fireworks and I think it's fun. But I think it's absolutely insane that in some places it's legal for private citizens to just buy actual bombs and...

      I have some generally good memories of private fireworks and I think it's fun.

      But I think it's absolutely insane that in some places it's legal for private citizens to just buy actual bombs and rockets. Obviously they aren't individually that awful when used in a reasonable manner, but, like...that clearly depends on a lot of assumptions.

      11 votes
    2. [6]
      skybrian
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      They actually are banned here, but the ban is widely ignored.

      They actually are banned here, but the ban is widely ignored.

      3 votes
      1. [5]
        V17
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        So I've heard, but how does that work? The strategy of "they can't lock up all of us" and just going off all at once on NYE is pretty funny, but how do people acquire them? Is it legal to sell...

        So I've heard, but how does that work? The strategy of "they can't lock up all of us" and just going off all at once on NYE is pretty funny, but how do people acquire them? Is it legal to sell them but illegal to use them?

        2 votes
        1. [4]
          public
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          State line firework shops. Buy them from where they’re legal.

          State line firework shops. Buy them from where they’re legal.

          4 votes
          1. [3]
            PelagiusSeptim
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            That's easy enough in Illinois where we're surrounded with legal firework states, but it seems it'd be a much harder challenge in Hawaii

            That's easy enough in Illinois where we're surrounded with legal firework states, but it seems it'd be a much harder challenge in Hawaii

            11 votes
            1. GenuinelyCrooked
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              You can tell from maps of the US that the trip from Hawaii to Alaska is just one big jump. Maybe that's where they're getting them?

              You can tell from maps of the US that the trip from Hawaii to Alaska is just one big jump. Maybe that's where they're getting them?

              2 votes
            2. updawg
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              They've got a guy. That's all you need to know.

              They've got a guy. That's all you need to know.

              1 vote
  2. DefinitelyNotAFae
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    Fireworks and "celebratory gun shots" at new years (and I guess other times too) are responsible for so many pointless injuries and deaths. It feels like drunk driving at this point. We "know"...

    Fireworks and "celebratory gun shots" at new years (and I guess other times too) are responsible for so many pointless injuries and deaths. It feels like drunk driving at this point. We "know" it's dangerous but no one thinks they will be the ones to suffer consequences.

    14 votes
  3. [2]
    updawg
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    Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QbbXlMyq3Cs

    Emergency crews arrived to a chaotic and gruesome scene in a Honolulu neighborhood after a large New Year’s firework tipped over after being lit and ignited a fiery, shrapnel-studded blast that killed three people and injured more than 20 others, several of them critically.

    Video:
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=QbbXlMyq3Cs

    10 votes
    1. cfabbro
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      To anyone who is afraid to click on the video, it's just drone footage of the explosion happening several blocks away, and then circling the scene as more explosions occur, so there isn't any gore...

      To anyone who is afraid to click on the video, it's just drone footage of the explosion happening several blocks away, and then circling the scene as more explosions occur, so there isn't any gore being shown (AFAICT), or anything like that.

      13 votes