re: What firework do you think is the most epic?

I'm not all that proud of it now but when I was in my mid-teens, there was one neighbor that would yell at any kid making noise after 8:00 pm. If it was after 10:00, he would call the police. I'm talking "kick the Can" game type of noise.


We pitched a tent in my friend's backyard and set our trap. The trap consisted of a brick of black cats and a lit punk. We placed them under his bedroom window with the lit punk as a delay fuse.

Went back to the tent around 11:00 and fired up a model plane engine for about a minute. 20 minutes later a cop pulls up and asks us to keep it down. While the cop was speaking, that brick went off 300 yards away.

Cop apologized since there were obviously other kids causing the disturbance and thanked us for quietly "camping".

When I was 12ish, a friend's dad got a deal on a shitload of fireworks. He, being a responsible parent, let us have a bunch of them to mess around with.

I remember we had just a pile of the 1,000 count black cat rolls. We figured out how tie the fuses so they would continue to go off. My friend's uncle stayed near him in a small trailer and worked night shift. He was asleep after working all night. We took so many of those rolls, and rolled them out around his trailer. It was at least 40-50 rolls. We lit them at around 11AM and it was glorious. They went on forever and his uncle came out of the door yelling about the time they were exploding around the porch steps. We cut and ran to the woods and hid out all day. We got our asses whipped by his dad when we finally came home that evening for dinner.

Looking back, we were assholes, but it was all worth it.

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whistling kitty-chaser?

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Lol, that ain't what we called em.

Was that a Joe Dirt reference?

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4th of July and New Year's Eve usually sounds like a war zone by my house. Last night it was about 50% of what it usually is.

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Half of your town must have moved to my neighborhood. It was a war zone until damn near daylight. Didn't bother me one bit, though. I slept all night. Our neighbor was pissed and looked like she had a rough night.

Only the pretty ones.

It might have been a West Bank thing or even a Harvey thing but we had these things called (racial slur) chasers. You put them on the ground and they glowed red shot forward about 40 feet while making an awful screech then exploded.

My neighbor would shoot his mini cannon. He would fire ball bearings across the canal towards the democrat neighborhood.

Me and my buddies thought welding rods were just really hard to light sparklers. We took a handful from my friends dad and poured gas on them and tried to light them...dumbasses i tell ya...

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The small bottle rockets that you could buy by the gross were the best. We had epic firework wars in our neighborhood.

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10K Bottle Rockets at one time.