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So how bad were the fireworks this 4th? Any Case Park stories? It's one weekend I'm glad I am not downtown due to visitors coming in and thinking downtown is their personal fireworks launch site.
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Re: Fireworks
I don't know why, but there were not a lot of people that took over Case Park. Or at least, not nearly as many as normal (you could find a parking spot on the street at all times).
There just didn't seem to be as many fireworks around the city as there have been, IMO
There just didn't seem to be as many fireworks around the city as there have been, IMO
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Case Park didn't seem to crazy. I think the cops shut it down around 11pm.
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I heard Gilham Park was a war zone. I drove by on Saturday and the place was absolutely trashed. Naturally, none of the trash using the park picked up their trash.
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Ditto Concourse Park. Thoroughly trashed and the pigs who trashed it lfted nary a finger to clean up after themselves!
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...and the cops were where????
Sportster
...and the cops were where????
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Re: Fireworks
geezer!KCPowercat wrote: So how bad were the fireworks this 4th? Any Case Park stories? It's one weekend I'm glad I am not downtown due to visitors coming in and thinking downtown is their personal fireworks launch site.
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Re: Fireworks
The Westside was pretty crazy, as usual. The most impressive part is when the push brooms, leaf blowers, trash cans & garden hoses come out at 10:45 to clean up the mountains of stuff.
*edit* - specifically around 20th & Jefferson. Not sure if other areas clean up their trash this quickly & thoroughly!
*edit* - specifically around 20th & Jefferson. Not sure if other areas clean up their trash this quickly & thoroughly!
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I really appreciate the people who do that.drumatix wrote: The Westside was pretty crazy, as usual. The most impressive part is when the push brooms, leaf blowers, trash cans & garden hoses come out at 10:45 to clean up the mountains of stuff.
*edit* - specifically around 20th & Jefferson. Not sure if other areas clean up their trash this quickly & thoroughly!
We were shooting them off in Belton (where virtually everything is legal) and had three long folding tables completely covered in stacks of fireworks. By the time we were done the street was was buried in shrapnel. We then spent an hour with push brooms and dust pans cleaning it all up, then went back out the next day to get stuff we didn't see and everything that had strayed into other people's yards.
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i was at la esquina at 25th and sw blvd. families were setting off all kinds of crazy stuff along w. 24th. one guy was putting m80s in a hole like they were IEDs. to the north i saw lots of "fireworks show" fireworks in the sky - not sure if those were legit or not.
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Re: Fireworks
Shooting fireworks was cool until you started driving at age 16.
Then, you realize only dorks get off on them past that age. Usually guys who don't have girlfriends.
Then, you realize only dorks get off on them past that age. Usually guys who don't have girlfriends.
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i enjoyed the use of some sparklers (with my gf) at a party in northeast kc on saturday.
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You weren't tossing jumping jacks into the cul-de-sac?chrizow wrote: i enjoyed the use of some sparklers (with my gf) at a party in northeast kc on saturday.
Or lighting bottle rockets, and laughing when the exploded in the air?
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Re: Fireworks
There were at least 8 blocks of the Westside that were shut down for the day/night. Several of these groups were shooting some pretty serious stuff off. The competition for best display was pretty awesome this year. The next morning the neighborhood was amazingly clean, except for areas (observation park) where non-natives were pyroing.chrizow wrote: i was at la esquina at 25th and sw blvd. families were setting off all kinds of crazy stuff along w. 24th. one guy was putting m80s in a hole like they were IEDs. to the north i saw lots of "fireworks show" fireworks in the sky - not sure if those were legit or not.
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Y'all should follow the lead of Volker and have your neighborhood associations hire off-duty police cops to patrol the neighborhood and enforce the fireworks ban. It has made a huge difference here near West 39th.
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Re: Fireworks
Fireworks are easier to have fun with if you're comfortable enough in your own identity to behave like a dork & pretend that you don't have a girlfriend for the night!Maitre D wrote: Shooting fireworks was cool until you started driving at age 16.
Then, you realize only dorks get off on them past that age. Usually guys who don't have girlfriends.
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$$$dangerboy wrote: Y'all should follow the lead of Volker and have your neighborhood associations hire off-duty police cops to patrol the neighborhood and enforce the fireworks ban. It has made a huge difference here near West 39th.
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Yep. Coming home from fireworks elsewhere, I had to drive around gilham park instead of going through via 41st because there was so much trash (human and otherwise) blocking the way and fireworks going off in the middle of the street.scooterj wrote: I heard Gilham Park was a war zone. I drove by on Saturday and the place was absolutely trashed. Naturally, none of the trash using the park picked up their trash.
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Fuck the fireworks bans. They're another attempt by the dreary and soulless to impose their own brand of dullness onto others.
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Amen!Tosspot wrote: Fuck the fireworks bans. They're another attempt by the dreary and soulless to impose their own brand of dullness onto others.
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fire safety/prevention is for squares!