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Orange Blooded [2234]
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Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
Jul 7, 2024, 12:53 PM
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....or just a combination ban maybe? You can legally drink but not use fireworks at the same time or vice versa?
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All-TigerNet [12299]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 12:54 PM
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There goes all the "Hold my beer..." antics.
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 12:57 PM
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banning stupid and "its all about me" would be nice too if only we could. We need much less of that
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110%er [7057]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 1:01 PM
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That's the problem.
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Orange Blooded [3374]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 1:28 PM
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Banning stupidity was also my first thought. That would work just as well as the North Carolina ban on fireworks.
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110%er [7057]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 1:31 PM
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You can never ban them, but you can limit them, especially in certain areas. Like most laws, they aren't full proof and never will be.
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110%er [6295]
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Heisman Winner [114625]
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the liberatarian in me says
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Jul 7, 2024, 1:03 PM
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let Darwin decide, we need to improve the gene pool anyway. 
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110%er [7057]
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Re: the liberatarian in me says
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Jul 7, 2024, 1:10 PM
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Are you recommending free beer for all? Maybe is the latter stages distribute the fireworks. That should speed things up.
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110%er [6036]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 1:34 PM
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Should have asked this question to the dude at a block party in North Charleston July 3rd. Unfortunately he blew his head up on July 4th when he set a large firework on top of his head. His wife begged him not to do it. Did it anyway, killed him dead as a door nail.
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Commissioner [945]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 2:05 PM
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To the people complaining about fireworks, it’s a handful of days out of the year at most. Independence Day is about celebrating our freedom. If people want to celebrate by exercising their freedom to spend x amount of dollars on fireworks and shoot them, by all means let them do it. Last time I checked, it’s their money, not yours.
If you’re so disturbed by the noise or people shooting them outside of the designated timeframe that they’re allowed to, then maybe you should get out of the recliner and go attend your local town/city council meeting to air out your frustration & concerns and present your alternative? (I know, that would make too much sense) But if that’s not good enough and you’re hell bent on a ban, then call your State Senator and Representative. Still not good enough? Then call your U.S. Senator and Representative.
But while you’re at it, make sure they also get banned at public events outside of the 4th and New Years, like football games in Death Valley. Too noisy, too close to people & buildings and they excite the crowd too much. And that cannon? Make sure it’s gone as well.
This is why I like living in the middle of nowhere and not among the b**ch and moan crowd.
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 2:10 PM
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Remember Bill Envalls line you cant fix stupid
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110%er [7057]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 2:12 PM
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It should be on July 4th as far as that holiday. Not July 3rd through midnight in July 6th.
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Commissioner [945]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
Jul 7, 2024, 2:51 PM
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So what is your recommended alternative/method to combat this issue? Would you like for your town’s/city’s Code Enforcement to patrol for fireworks the 2 nights leading up to and following July 4th? (Not joking, being serious)
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110%er [7057]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 3:56 PM
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I was thinking firing squads, but since that won't work I will go with ticketing like they do all over the country in places where it is illegal. Downtown Charleston, SC for example. It won't stop everyone, but it limits it.
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MVP [507]
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Eveenthough Andersson County hsa an 11PM noise......
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Jul 7, 2024, 4:27 PM
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.... ordinance the Sheriff's Office said they would not answer firework complaints until 2AM. I understand they don't have enough people to enforce it. I doesn't make the fact that the @###### in my neighborhood would not stop at midnight. As fireworks get larger and louder it makes it difficult. Yes, I am older and don't like my sleep interfered with.
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
Jul 7, 2024, 3:02 PM
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It should be whenever I feel like it. They are legal everyday of the year. Get over yourself.
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110%er [7057]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 3:57 PM
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They actually aren't legal everywhere even on the 4th and not legal everywhere all year. Moreover, get over yourself. You're the one who wants to bother peeps whenever you want all year and funk with animals.
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All-TigerNet [12815]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
Jul 7, 2024, 11:34 PM
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They were illegal for Joe Public in Ohio, legal in Indiana, and illegal in Illinois. We could drive less than hour and buy them in Indiana but when driving back into IL you had to watch for the State Police. So drive in on one road and comeback on another because they were watching for quick return trips. Once we got them home, we shot them off without ever seeing the police.
Ohio was a different story. Around 1996, we took the kids from IL to Ohio for a 4th of July travel baseball tournament. On the way, we stopped in Indiana and bought fireworks. July 4th, we found a vacant lot near the hotel and shot them off. Before the last one fired off, we could hear the sirens and see the lights. I grabbed up the kids and got them back to their hotel rooms before the police saw us. That was the last time and probably the only time I'll shoot fireworks in Ohio even though they changed the law to allow it in 2022.
So I guess it depends where you are and how much risk you're willing to take.
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All-In [31135]
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Neither. Its Darwinism. Were protecting the stupid too much these days.
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Jul 7, 2024, 2:06 PM
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Idiocracy could’ve been avoided without warning labels and OSHA
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Orange Blooded [2754]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 2:07 PM
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Neither…we need more of both!
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Commissioner [933]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
Jul 7, 2024, 2:08 PM
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How bout people use common sense this may seem insincere but if you are that big of an idiot to put an fireworks on top of your head you deserve what you get. Sorry for wife and family but Darwin won. You just can police stupidity like that.
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1st Rounder [606]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 2:56 PM
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I am glad URC lives in middle of nowhere also. What a solution:
"it's their money..."
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Orange Blooded [2234]
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No less a figure than Thomas Jefferson...
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Jul 7, 2024, 3:22 PM
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...believed it was a great thing to live in the middle of nowhere: he made the easy connection that the tighter people were grouped together obvious problems would arise based solely on proximity. Every ban fireworks advocate on here has an issue with their neighbor or near neighbors.......thank God I have neither....
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Commissioner [945]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 3:23 PM
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Please point out where I said “it’s their money” as being a solution to banning fireworks or alcohol.
Oh wait……..I didn’t.
I said “it’s their money” because of the people on the other fireworks threads obsessing over how much are spent on them. My post isn’t a solution to banning fireworks or alcohol. It’s addressing the general I hate fireworks/noise complaint crowd.
But read it however you like.
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110%er [7057]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
Jul 7, 2024, 3:25 PM
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Sounds fishy. I have my on you buddy.
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1st Rounder [606]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
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Jul 7, 2024, 3:58 PM
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A solution to the issue...others not liking, being infringed upon, etc. Certainly nobody thinks you have a solution to a ban or whatever.
Hope you have a dog someday that proves how ridiculous 3 nights of such "celebration" is
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
Jul 7, 2024, 4:23 PM
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Finally, the dog comment. I was waiting on it.
I do have a dog, actually. In fact, we’ve had 3 over the last 25 years. Only 1 was, briefly, scared of loud noises, like fireworks and thunderstorms. Has never bothered the one I’ve got now or the one before.
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
Jul 7, 2024, 8:24 PM
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I was waiting on the dog comment too. I think they should be banned all year except on the 4th of July… see what I did?
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110%er [8276]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
Jul 7, 2024, 3:23 PM
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It would be easier to just ban stupidity!
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
Jul 7, 2024, 3:26 PM
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You can’t fix stupid!!!!!!!
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110%er [7076]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
Jul 7, 2024, 4:10 PM
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freedom is dangerous yo - ban driving? riding a motorcycle? eating red meat? owning firearms?
can’t legislate stupidity
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110%er [7057]
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Legend [18316]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
Jul 7, 2024, 4:40 PM
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Why the #### not. Lets pencil whip it. Prohibition of alcohol and pot worked? Didn't it?
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110%er [7057]
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Re: Ban drinking or fireworks or both?
Jul 7, 2024, 5:11 PM
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Exactly. We need to start selling fireworks everywhere in the beer and booze section in ever market. The key is loosening the rules.
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Legend [18316]
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We pretty much do now Lester
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Jul 7, 2024, 5:20 PM
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The Fireworks Stores are right next to the convenience stores.
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110%er [7057]
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Re: We pretty much do now Lester
Jul 7, 2024, 5:27 PM
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Not in most states. None in NC actually.
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Orange Blooded [3609]
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Re: We pretty much do now Lester
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Jul 7, 2024, 5:37 PM
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Let’s provide free beer and professional fireworks for all politicians in Washington and encourage them not to start shooting fireworks until after 12:00.
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All-In [27081]
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Re: We pretty much do now Lester
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Jul 7, 2024, 5:45 PM
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Fireworks for July 4th and New Years only.
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110%er [6073]
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Natural selection works for me***
Jul 7, 2024, 5:53 PM
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CU Guru [1858]
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Re: Natural selection works for me***
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Jul 7, 2024, 8:47 PM
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Good lord I’ve never seen such whining on this entire board as I’ve seen about fireworks. Great our recruiting sucks fire dabo, fire brownell, fire Clemson coaches… nothing is as whiny as #### fireworks. If I want to buy a bottle of pappys and buffalo trace and go fire off mortars all night leave me the #### alone. It’s fun, the kids love it, and I like bourbon while blowing up a grand. Who cares ########… leave it alone and quit ####### whining.
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