OT: RE: 4th of July Hypocricy (was: OT Celebration)

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_ellie.ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu Jul 5 11:12:52 2001

> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote:
>
> > Pretty much most people have given in and said the hell with the
> > fireworks - they've been so harrassed about them on "public service"
> > commercials, laws, etc and when they go to a fireworks stand they see
> > the prices for cheap crap that spits some sparks and just say the hell
> > with it.
>
> You can blame the irresponsible cretins who haplessly set fire to their
> neighbors' houses, and the over-reacting city and county councils that
> enacted measures banning fireworks because of this.

Last night, those cretins of which you speak were busily lobbing burning
magnesium all over the tinder dry "extreme fire hazard zone" in which I
reside. I wholeheartedly will support any laws that contain forced
sterilization (of the perpetrator and their children) as punishment
for such behavior. As a punishment for attempted mass murder, they'd be
getting off lightly. (OK, I'm joking.... a little...)

If these idiot want to reproduce, they should launch their fireworks in
an area that isn't so flammable. Whatever happened to going to the beach
for such things?

Eric
Received on Thu Jul 05 2001 - 11:12:52 BST