As the Discourser eluded to in his last post, here in Tennessee (the Red State as he calls it) you can buy any kind of firework imaginable. Now when I was a kid growing up in SB, the only legal fireworks you can purchase were sparklers, snakes, fountain cones, piccolo petes, smoke stacks....that kind of thing. Even the ground flowers were okay. Firecrackers, bottle rockets, M-80's, roman candles, launch tubes.....these were all illegal and the only way to get a hold of any was to know somebody who knew somebody in Chinatown and could get them. It was legal for certain businesses and organizations to import them in Chinatown because they were used for "cultural" purposes. Partially true because a common scene in the Chinese New Year parade is strings of firecrackers dangling from poles popping....the sound drives off Evil Furies. My boy Kevin bought a bunch of stuff as did Liv and Kevin set them off into my In-Laws field. He had mortar launchers and bottle rockets that had the rounded body and nose cone with a stick like you see in every Bugs Bunny cartoon.....reminded me of that scene in Fellowship of the Ring when Gandalf had the wagon full of fireworks. I would have gotten in lots of trouble had I grew up in Tennessee.........oh yeah....
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