You guys don't use fireworks at new years?
Yes, but it's generally professional shows or just a few at midnight. On the fourth it's like half the neighborhood setting them off from dusk to 11ish.
Totally opposite where I'm at, way more fireworks on New Year's every year than I've ever seen on the Fourth
half the neighborhood setting them off from dusk to 11ish
I live in a state where, as far as I can tell, anyone can get any amount of explosives of any lethality. So this holiday runs from late June into early August every year.
"Inflammable means flammable? What a country!"
What do you call something that isn't flammable?
uninflammable...
Lulz
Found out today two neighbors had injuries or damage from other people. Teens shot fireworks at one guy, and another had her window shattered we hope from a firework and not a stray bullet. God damn I hate that holiday.
are these numbers a sum from like 30 years? or made up? because they seem unbelievably high to be yearly averages
https://www.cpsc.gov/Safety-Education/Safety-Education-Centers/Fireworks
For 2023, CPSC received reports of eight deaths and an estimated 9,700 injuries involving fireworks. Out of the eight deaths, five were associated with firework misuse, two with a device malfunction, and one involves unknown circumstances.
As someone who shoots professionally, these numbers feel low to me. The stupid shit I see every day folks do makes me wonder how they're still legal without a license
Yeah, let your grasses dry a bit more so there isnt any lameass smoldering. We want a full blown fire boys /s
Yeah? Well fuck you too, graph.
Man, you just look at a graph wrong and they give you a rude gesture...
According to your data, February sounds pleasant
In seriousness, July and August (in the northern hemisphere) probably ARE a lot more dangerous for fireworks because everything's dry. If this holiday happened in the late fall or winter you'd have a lot fewer fires.
You're still gonna blow off the same number of fingers, of course, but overall there are less dangerous months than July.
What are people celebrating in June? Juneteenth?
Fireworks sales start at the end of June.
