  7051 Member Username: 7051 Post Number: 124 Registered: 02-2006 |
Anyone notice that the usual Detroit artillery barage that starts about 3-4 weeks before the 4th has been absent for the most part this year. During the last few years I thought that the local economy would slow down the personal fireworks, but it didn't. It seems that $4 gas was the breaking point(fuel for your car or fireworks?). Maybe $6 gas will slow down the ridiculous amount of fires in the city? I doubt it.... | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 993 Registered: 10-2003 |
A lot of the inner-city party stores are still selling illegal fireworks under the counter. | ||
Detroiterbychoice Member Username: Detroiterbychoice Post Number: 45 Registered: 04-2008 |
which ones? I need to party! ha ha ha | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 2677 Registered: 09-2007 |
Hey, it's not illegal if you don't get caught.  | ||
Retroit Member Username: Retroit Post Number: 298 Registered: 04-2008 |
7051, word on the street is that you can boost your fuel economy by 743% by mixing your fireworks into your gasoline. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 3259 Registered: 10-2003 |
E85 ... M80 no big diff | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4888 Registered: 10-2003 |
The price of fireworks has also gone up this year. http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/0 1/smallbusiness/fireworks.fsb/ index.htm | ||
Terryh Member Username: Terryh Post Number: 845 Registered: 11-2006 |
go to Ohio for fireworks. There was this spot out in the country, can't remember exactly. I think it was Miller, I can find out. I used to buy them by the case load, sell some for a small profit and use mine for free. this was back in late eighties before the additional regulation,(even the Ohio fireworks arent as strong as they used to be) holiday shells were a blast. back then you could get a pretty big bang for the buck. | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 2678 Registered: 09-2007 |
Phantom Fireworks? It's outside Toledo. http://www.fireworks.com/locations/showroom.asp?lid=19 (Message edited by DetroitRise on July 04, 2008) | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 2320 Registered: 08-2007 |
It was quiet until about an hour ago, now it's nuts out there. | ||
Terryh Member Username: Terryh Post Number: 846 Registered: 11-2006 |
It wasn't Phantom. This place was a little jog out in the country. | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 2680 Registered: 09-2007 |
I drove by Phantom before. It was definitely the country, and a quick jog from Toledo. There's another location outside Toledo as well. The city/country transition is rather drastic down there. It wasn't too far from (I believe) the Davis-Beese Nuke Plant. These are other huge Firework dealers (in SE Ohio) http://www.ohiofireworks.com/locations_fireworks_ohio.htm (Message edited by DetroitRise on July 04, 2008) | ||
Wallins Member Username: Wallins Post Number: 5 Registered: 06-2008 |
We have had fireworks in the neighborhood around Ford Hospital for three days. Some of them sound like a bomb and others are large and colorful like the ones you would see at the fireworks downtown. They shoot very high into the air and I am fearful they will land on a house and start a fire. How long would it take the fire department to get here if the neighborhood station is closed due to staff shortage? | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 2079 Registered: 03-2006 |
people were lighting m80's in woodbridge, it sounded like bombs going off | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 5076 Registered: 02-2005 |
It was typically active on the Detroit and Grosse Pointe sides of Mack. Balduck Park was perhaps a bit less active than in years past. But the days leading up to the 4th were not as loud as past years. | ||
Funaho Member Username: Funaho Post Number: 56 Registered: 11-2007 |
The fireworks started around my house (SW Detroit) at least two weeks ago and haven't stopped since. Lately they've been setting off what I can only describe as munitions, because the house actually shakes. It's EXTREMELY annoying. | ||
Retroit Member Username: Retroit Post Number: 304 Registered: 04-2008 |
Whenever I get annoyed by the sound of fireworks, I try to imagine what it must be like to live in a war zone, and be appreciative that I don't. | ||
Rockcity2windycity Member Username: Rockcity2windycity Post Number: 314 Registered: 11-2005 |
Damn i thought this was only a problem in my area, i live in Pontiac. They start about a month before the fourth and end about two weeks after. Once the fireworks end it'll be back to the peace and quiet of the nightly sporadic gunfire | ||
Bulletmagnet Member Username: Bulletmagnet Post Number: 1368 Registered: 01-2007 |
Most of what you are hearing in the days and weeks pryor to the 4th, is simply gun fire, 7051. Count the reports, and if they come regular and are between 1 and 12, you got rounds being squeezed off. Some people find it hard to beleve that gunfire sometimes occurred in Detroit but it does. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 5077 Registered: 02-2005 |
I doubt that "most" of the noise in the weeks prior to the 4th are gunfire. Gunfire happens sporadically throughout the year, so we know how the sound compares to fireworks, and know that the average frequency of those blasts is nothing compared to the average frequency of explosions around the 4th. | ||
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass Post Number: 788 Registered: 01-2007 |
I always thought that a good time to pop someone would be shortly after a Tigers home game on Friday or Saturday night. During the fireworks show. Nobody would know until they found the corpse. Perhaps I am sharing too much with you folks. | ||
Saintme Member Username: Saintme Post Number: 173 Registered: 08-2006 |
I visited some friends in Warrendale last night, and the streets and skies were alive. It was like a damn disco with all the lights, and very noisy. But I enjoyed every second of it. |
