How insane is that?
Oh, and home fireworks are illegal in LA County. And yet, enough of them were set off to turn the entire city into an ashtray.
Where I live they were going off until 1:00 in the morning.
I feel so bad for pets. How many of these revelers scared the shit out of their beloved cats and dogs?
I don’t get it for so many reasons. First off, they’re dangerous. They’re also not cheap. As thrills go they’re pretty quick. And finally, what the hell are you possibly celebrating? This is the darkest, bleakest period I’ve experienced in my whole life. So what is there to celebrate? It’s like if Germany held a victory parade right after V-E Day.
The point is, when home fireworks are banned it is for your own safety. It is not a punitive action. For the life of me I will never understand how self-preservation has become a political dividing line. It’s not ideology, it’s common sense. Taking precautions to save yourself and your loved ones should be the most bi-partisan issue there is. If there’s still a United States in a hundred years, I think history will record this period as the time America lost its mind.
Asking you to be safe and take care of yourself is not asking you to vote Democratic.
But getting back to fireworks because I’m not going to change anyone’s mind with reason.
I used to love going to city parks on the 4th of July and seeing the fireworks show with friends and family. Once I became a baseball announcer fireworks meant it was hard to do the postgame show – although I must admit I had fun with it. One time when I was with the Mariners we were on the road and they were shooting off fireworks. I came on the air and said, “Live from Beirut, it’s the out-of-town scoreboard. In the American League, Minnesota beat Detroit 3-2, Texas over Oakland 7-4, (BOOM!), oh no, they just got our embassy, and Boston edged Baltimore 2-1.”
So I miss going to fireworks shows too. And you have to physically go to fireworks shows. Staying home this 4th of July (like I’ve stayed home every night for the last 17 weeks), I came across the Macy’s Fireworks show on NBC. Is there anything more mind-numbing boring than watching fireworks on television? The Yule Log is more entertaining.
You gotta be in the venue that it happens.
It’s now three days after the 4th. Home fireworks have continued every night and I suspect tonight will be more of the same. I don’t mean to be an old guy, but if someone wanted to fire a bottle rocket from my property I would tell him to get off my lawn.
from By Ken Levine
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