A Twist On The Usual 4th Of July Fireworks Warnings

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Explosion inside LA police bomb disposal truck after illegal fireworks seized injures 17

"We are experts. We deal with illegal explosives on a daily basis. Obviously something went wrong." LAPD Lt. Raul Jovel

As far back as I can remember, we in California have watched those same boring public service TV commercials that warn if someone tries to celebrate our nation's birth by lighting-off anything more powerful than pathetic "safe and sane" fireworks, their hands will end-up looking mangled-- like NFL star Jason-Pierre Paul's. Last night in south-central L.A. officials inadvertently got a way better TV commercial.


The highly-vaunted LAPD bomb disposal truck is-- or was before it was disintegrated and demolished in a massive fireball-- built of space-age, super-secret material that was reverse-engineered in Area 51 from extra-terrestrial fragments captured from the Roswell UFO crash in 1947. The thing was advertised as being invulnerable to anything the bomb squad could possibly find in a run-down house in the inner city. And that includes 5,000 pounds of boxes innocuously marked Sky Candy Fireworks: Made in China.

Apparently not.

 

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I think this outcome is just an offshoot of this whole public drama police have to go through when they find something "suspicious" and have to shut down half the city so they can blow it up, even though in most cases it winds up being some homeless person's sole possessions or a box of kittens.

They should just do what the police did when I was growing up and they confiscated our "illegal" fireworks...either keep them themselves and maybe give it to their kids or resell them. They also did those same things with confiscated beer and marijuana too. Better yet call in the military and have a professional ordnance person deal with it then LA's keystone cops who really don't care about protecting the residents or they would've have tried to detonate the shit in a packed residential area.

Well at least with this story in the news it will eclipse the local embarrassment that comes our way every holiday when the headlines will proclaim "Florida Man suffers grievous injury in fireworks accident.", which is always tragic considering the outcome means some rural goober will now be only able to count to 8 or 9 unless he takes off his shoes.
 

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I think this outcome is just an offshoot of this whole public drama police have to go through when they find something "suspicious" and have to shut down half the city so they can blow it up, even though in most cases it winds up being some homeless person's sole possessions or a box of kittens.

They should just do what the police did when I was growing up and they confiscated our "illegal" fireworks...either keep them themselves and maybe give it to their kids or resell them. They also did those same things with confiscated beer and marijuana too. Better yet call in the military and have a professional ordnance person deal with it then LA's keystone cops who really don't care about protecting the residents or they would've have tried to detonate the shit in a packed residential area.

Well at least with this story in the news it will eclipse the local embarrassment that comes our way every holiday when the headlines will proclaim "Florida Man suffers grievous injury in fireworks accident.", which is always tragic considering the outcome means some rural goober will now be only able to count to 8 or 9 unless he takes off his shoes.


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