>I think you are aware of them, just choose to ignore them.
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>I know about Allentown, because my brother-in-law is a Allentown fireman and tells me every year about the increased calls they get in the weeks around the fourth. He said the police routinely accompany them when they get this type of call and that REAL FELONY charges get handed out in extreme cases (severe bodily injury or significant property damage).
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>Vast majority of injury or property damage cases is because of idiots who don't know how to use them or parents who don't have any sense. CNN did a story about fireworks - there were a grand total of about 9,000 incidents like these in the U.S. last year.
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>Want to know the single highest cause???? SPARKLERS! Yes, those silly, idiotic little sticks that I didn't like at age 7 because I thought they were retarded. Well, sparklers caused over 1,200 of those injuries. It was either kids getting burned, or people doing dumb things with sparklers and other stuff.
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>Next in line are these idiots who shoot off bombs in their hands. As far as I'm concerned, any moron who does that, has aptly earned the nickname of "lefty".
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>After that, you have people who are trying to light off damaged fireworks that didn't ignite the first time. You can put those people on the Darwin award list.
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>Yes, these things do happen, sadly, because of idiots or people who just don't know what they're doing. Despite my joking around that I go out and put on a 2 hour show while I'm three sheets to the wind, the truth is that I'm very careful and serious about it, and have never had an incident, and never will.
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>Kevin

How do you dispose of dud fireworks?