Fire works stands are open....

[YeLLowBoaT]

I should go buy some "ground blumes"... for some reason the ones I get always have a hole drilled in the bottom and go 90+ ft in the air. :)

[INFINITEJJ]

The one's i got last year wouldn't work?

[H20 Party Starter]

all I gotta say is http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/for/176309398.html
I don't condone the plublic advertised sale of illegal explosives, but I met up with this guy and now have a VERY HEALTHY collection of 36" bottle rockets, and 3 stage morters :rollside: :) :)
He brought a uhaul truck filled from UTAH :crossx:
Happy 4th :cool:

[YeLLowBoaT]

what a dumb ass... its a felony to have illegal fire works in CA... its just not worth it... This guy is going to jail.

[H20 Party Starter]

what a dumb ass... its a felony to have illegal fire works in CA... its just not worth it... This guy is going to jail.
ACTUALLY, I was cited in San Diego 9/14/02 for municipal code violation MC63.02.3 for possession and discharging Illegal Fireworks( yes I just looked through my stack of tickets in my file labled "Po-Po Info" :p and it is deffinately not a fellony. Selling them however might be :cool:

[lewiville]

tell me more. cost and everything else. I just might take that chance. I need something to do out at Havasu Landing. Get tired of driving the golf cart all over.

[H20 Party Starter]

morter sets including tube and 8-12 shells w/ anywhere between 1-5 seperate explosion displays per shell ranged 20-40 a set
sky rockets were 12pk for $12, small bottle rockets were 12pks for $6 and ultra small bottle (like a firecracker on a stick) rockets were like 100pk for $15 Tons of 8-12 ball roman candels were $5 for a 4 or 5 pk I can't remember. Bricks of firecrackers were $12-15
They have "cakes" for 10-30$ that you just light once and they shoot stuff off for 2-10 mins.
I usually stock up at the AVI hotel/casino smokeshop anytime I am within 100miles, but these guys have their prices BEAT!

[al cole'holic]

...anyone down for a carpool to Pahrump?? :)

[bohica]

Read a P.E. article today about the program Cali has going where they park an observer outside the Pahrump Nev fireworks store and when you come out arms loaded they take down your license # then stop you in Baker and search you. They also have a checkpoint on highway 127 looking for cars loaded to the roof. Have a safe and sane 4th.

[al cole'holic]

Read a P.E. article today about the program Cali has going where they park an observer outside the Pahrump Nev fireworks store and when you come out arms loaded they take down your license # then stop you in Baker and search you. They also have a checkpoint on highway 127 looking for cars loaded to the roof. Have a safe and sane 4th.
..aint that a bitch.

[THATJEFFGUY]

...anyone down for a carpool to Pahrump?? :)
You can go...let us know how it works out for ya !
Turning up the heat on fireworks
CONFISCATIONS OF FIREWORKS FROM PAHRUMP, NEV.
VEHICLE CHECKPOINTS - July 1 through July 3 at Baker
MAXIMUM PENALTY IN MOST FIREWORKS POSSESSION CASES
One year in county jail, $500 to $1,000 fine, or both
Sources: Office of the California Fire Marshal and San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department
PAHRUMP, NEV. - Like grocery store customers, they push shopping carts across the parking lot of a Nevada fireworks store, load their purchases into cars and SUVs, and drive away -- while an undercover investigator watches through binoculars.
Unnoticed in a rental car parked along a busy street, the fireworks cop is interested only in the customers with California license plates.
By cell phone, she relays the plate numbers and vehicle descriptions to officers waiting across the state line in San Bernardino County. Near the desert town of Baker, they stop those vehicles, confiscate their incendiary loads and issue tickets that can turn the drivers into criminals, even felons.
"I don't have a life during the fireworks season," said Marge Yarbrough, an investigator for the California Fire Marshal who stakes out the fireworks stores.
This is the second consecutive June that Yarbrough has spent much of her time helping San Bernardino County authorities seize tons of fireworks.
The devices are sold legally in Pahrump, Nev., but become illegal as soon as they reach California, where they are considered dangerous because they rocket into the sky, move across the ground or make startlingly loud noises.
Marge Yarbrough, with the California Fire Marshal, reads California license plates across the street from a fireworks store in Pahrump, Nev. It's legal to sell fireworks in the city but illegal to shoot them off. Officials are most worried about aerial fireworks.
These aren't the benign devices sold at California fireworks stands, where the products generally do little more than sparkle and whistle. These include firecrackers, bottle rockets and aerial displays that are scaled-down versions of the mortar-launched shells featured at public fireworks shows.
The fireworks task force is active each June and can swell to about 20 officers from the Sheriff's Department, fire marshal's office, county Fire Department and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. They are speaking about it publicly for the first time in hope of deterring the purchases they blame for sparking fires and injuring people.
And sheriff's deputies say they plan to try something new this Saturday through Monday: a DUI-style checkpoint just north of Baker. Officers will stop and inspect southbound vehicles along Highway 127, a favorite route for California motorists returning with fireworks.
Already this year, the stakeouts have helped authorities seize about 70,000 pounds of fireworks sold in Pahrump, state fire marshal's records show. Last year's haul totaled more than 200,000 pounds.
At a time when many California communities ban the use of all fireworks, possession of "dangerous" fireworks -- even a single firecracker or bottle rocket -- is a misdemeanor, punishable by a year in jail, a $500 to $1,000 fine, or both.
Possession of fireworks containing a pound or more of explosive material -- 14,000 firecrackers or 140 roman candles, for example -- can trigger felony charges punishable by a state prison sentence.
That's unfair, say some of the motorists caught by the fireworks cops.
"The hypocrisy!" lamented a 29-year-old Santa Paula man who identified himself as Ray Morales, but whose driver license listed his last name as Romero. "I don't understand how you can buy something legally, and it's illegal (almost) as soon as it's out the door."
Stopped Saturday in roughly the same spot where the checkpoint is planned, he and a passenger said they bought $1,000 worth of fireworks, which filled the cargo compartment of their Ford Expedition SUV.
The load was all for their personal use on the Fourth of July, they said.
The driver was ticketed and allowed to complete his 600-mile round-trip empty-handed, pending an Aug. 9 court hearing.
"It's a disappointment," he said. "Every year, we look forward to the Fourth of July barbecue and fireworks. It's just not going to be the same."
The seizures might prevent a major fire or keep someone -- maybe a child -- from suffering a bone-shattering injury, said Detective Dan Glozer, of the San Bernardino County sheriff's arson and bomb squad.
In 2004, fireworks were responsible for 9,600 emergency-room visits nationwide, according to the U.S. Product Safety Commission.
Early this year, Glozer investigated the case of a 7-year-old Yucaipa boy who lost his left index finger and the tip of his middle finger after an aerial shell, like those available in Pahrump, exploded while he played with it in his home.
"He held it in his hand and lit it," Glozer recalled. "He was going to throw it out the door, but he couldn't open the door.
"So he tried to (smother it) with a blanket. And that's when it went off in his hand."
The crackdown in San Bernardino County began in 2004 after a newly assigned deputy sheriff in Baker noticed unusually heavy traffic along desolate Highway 127, which leads to Death Valley but has a turnoff to Pahrump.
During a traffic stop, Deputy Ryan Ford discovered about 13 cases of fireworks stacked well above the window line of a van, he recalls.
Ford ticketed the driver and summoned the bomb squad to confiscate the fireworks. Before they were finished, Ford recalls, another van drove past with fireworks in plain sight.
In the view of many California investigators, the problem is rooted in Nevada's method of allowing each county to set its own fireworks regulations.
Las Vegas and Reno -- the two largest Nevada cities bordering California -- and their surrounding counties don't allow fireworks and don't represent a problem, California authorities say.
Pahrump is the primary out-of-state source of illegal fireworks, they say. In Nye County, where Pahrump is the largest city, it is legal to sell fireworks but illegal to use them. So customers are supposed to sign a document saying they will take their purchases out of the county within 24 hours.
The result is a law enforcement problem and a costly disposal problem for California police and fire officials.
Last year, California Fire Marshal Ruben Grijalva traveled to Pahrump and asked Nye County commissioners to help stem the flow of incendiary loads across the state line.
"The reception was less than warm," Grijalva recalled. "They didn't feel inclined to help with the issue I was presenting."
But at least one commissioner agreed with him.
"Their own chairperson, Candice Trummell ... called (the ordinance) hypocritical and immoral," Grijalva said.
Trummell didn't return phone calls seeking comment. But Nye County Commissioner Gary Hollis said the ordinance will be reviewed after this fireworks season.
At Phantom Fireworks in Pahrump, Anthony McCoy -- who identified himself as the owner's son -- emphasized that the sales are legal under federal and Nevada laws and said he believes adults ought to have enough common sense not to misuse the devices.
"The law is: You can buy them here (in Nye County) but you can't light them off here. That doesn't make any sense to me," McCoy said. "But people (from California) are going to take the chance and buy fireworks. The Fourth of July celebrates independence."

[HM]

all I gotta say is http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/for/176309398.html
I don't condone the plublic advertised sale of illegal explosives, but I met up with this guy and now have a VERY HEALTHY collection of 36" bottle rockets, and 3 stage morters :rollside: :) :)
He brought a uhaul truck filled from UTAH :crossx:
Happy 4th :cool:
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[YeLLowBoaT]

Still shows up for me

[HM]

Still shows up for me
This is what I get when I click on the link:
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[ThongMagnet]

Bait and switch..... Drive two cars. Load up one...the bait car. Drive a few miles down the road, and put the stuff in the other car, the switch car.
If there is a will, there is a way.
After spending $400 a year for the last 10 years, I'm done with fireworks. We lit them off in Iowa, where it is so damp, the punks would have a hard time staying lit. It's way to dry in Arizona and California to set them off.
Leave the fireworks to the experts.
Check your kids bedrooms...I bet they have a few :)

[It's all Good]

all I gotta say is http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/for/176309398.html
I don't condone the plublic advertised sale of illegal explosives, but I met up with this guy and now have a VERY HEALTHY collection of 36" bottle rockets, and 3 stage morters :rollside: :) :)
He brought a uhaul truck filled from UTAH :crossx:
Happy 4th :cool:
These guys were hooked up yesterday.
http://www.dailypilot.com/front/story/49455p-75586c.html

[H20 Party Starter]

Nice! Cited and released, not even a trip to the pokey :) :)

[It's all Good]

Nice! Cited and released, not even a trip to the pokey :) :)
The source was:
Samuel Norman Larosa, 27, of Newport Beach was arrested and is being held on $20,000 bail on a felony charge of possessing illegal fireworks.
Two other Costa Mesa men, Christopher Ray, 19, and Sean Lowe, 18, were cited and released on suspicion of misdemeanor possession and sales of illegal fireworks.
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/article_1197449.php

[H20 Party Starter]

Good for you officer It'sAllGood, I'm glad your task force paid off :)
H20=> Leaving for the river in 3...2...1... :p :p

[funkybunchjr]

Sux for you guys, they're still 100% legal here in TX. But just like you guys, it's too dry to do anything this year :(

[al cole'holic]

...the turnaround trip was sly, had a disgusting display last night, and a few cases left over! :cool:
http://members.aol.com/hevythreds/firec.jpg

[Trailer Park Casanova]

...anyone down for a carpool to Pahrump?? :)
We do all the time on the Dumont trips.
Fireworks/The Jack Bar/Blackjack runs