craigb
Missed the reference to my old home town's major FAIL from last year!  Not only did they have one display fire ALL of their fireworks up all at once, but all of the displays around the bay (four or five of them) went up at the same time as well. 
 
Here's a bunch of videos from it - CRAZY!

I would have LOVED to see that in person. It was funny, the bay all filled with yachts, people set up everywhere... BANG!!!  
J

Guitarhacker
NC outlawed anything that flies and explodes.
 
SC didn't.
 
Road trip....problem solved.

We used to go to Alabama but: http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2011-07-02/story/georgia-has-fireworks-regulations-doesnt-enforce-them
Fireworks are illegal in GA too but they don't enforce the laws. They sell them in supermarkets, set up huge tents in parking lots, they are for sale everywhere. It is weird, I wish they would ignore some other laws too!
@Rain.. re fireworks last night. Every year we have to listen to them for a few days before the 4th and for at least a week after. Our local display at the park has been postponed because of all the rian but I could hear a few go off around here last night in the rain. It is really, really wet here right now but that wont stop rednecks. They will shoot them off under and umbrella.
 J

This reminds me of another story involving acid and fireworks. I was living in Tifton, GA. Georgia had outlawed fireworks a couple of years back. I think it was 1971. Someone, I don't remember who had lifted the leftover fireworks from that Plantation tourist trap on I-75 in S. GA just north of Tifton. There were a few large boxes of assorted rockets etc in the trunk and back seat of the car. We were somewhere out in the woods near Tifton and tripping... started to shoot off rockets, got paranoid.. woah, this is going to attract some attention so someone had the idea to just light them all but of course they didn't take them out of the car and set them up.
There were rockets flying out all the doors, out of the trunk and all around in the car... I am glad it wasn't my car, lol. It was over pretty quick and luckily the car didn't catch on fire. Talk about a trip... that was a trip, laff.
 
J