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2011-12-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Argentina Christmas fireworks kill one, injure 100

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Posted by Fred 2011-12-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Huh. Christmas never really struck me as a hoot-n-holler, bang-bang holiday. But whatever...

Posted by gromky 2011-12-26 01:10|| 2011-12-26 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Gromky,

You should have heard it here in SC on Christmas Eve. Sounded like rush hour in Baghdad.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-12-26 06:05|| 2011-12-26 06:05|| Front Page Top

#3 In the Philippines they shoot off their guns at midnight on New Year's Eve. Straight up. Physics being what it is, there are plenty who end up in the hospital as a result.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-12-26 07:23|| 2011-12-26 07:23|| Front Page Top

#4 You should see or hear Diwali in India. Some of the generally available fireworks there, would be classified as munitions here.

Large fireworks that rattle windows and set off car alarms. And some of the 'pipe' rockets are quite impressive.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2011-12-26 12:56|| 2011-12-26 12:56|| Front Page Top

#5 As per #3, there have a handful of similar incidents here in Guam, usually because people shoot real bullets instead of blanks, fired either perpendicular or at steep angle in an urban area, + espec because they also forgot or ignored the elementary physics-science lesson(s) that "what goes up must also come down" + "for every action there is an equal + opposite reaction".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-12-26 22:57|| 2011-12-26 22:57|| Front Page Top

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