New Firework Law

WOO HOO!!!!! Ok, so by now it is a bit of old news but I just thought I would recap on what has been happening with the change in the firework laws in Utah.

Last week the law was finally changed as to allow "multi-tube", "repeater", and "cake" aerial fireworks that can shoot up as high as 150 feet in the air. Although, things such as "m-80's", "cherry bombs", "bottle rockets", and "roman candles" are still not allowed. I don't know about all of you but this excites me very much.

In todays newspaper (the Ogden Standard for me) there was a section titled "Not Thrilled" which explained from the point of view of police and fire officials that this is going to make our neighborhoods "messy and cluttered". That point of view is actually quite funny to me. They decided that trying to tell people it wasn't safe was just a waste of breath so they are trying to detour people from lighting off fireworks on the basis that it will litter the streets. I don't know about everyone else, but I really feel like they are grasping at anything they can find to try and convince people that they are still bad.

Now the best part is this: living so close to Evanston, Wyoming who can argue that the best part of the "firework season" is trying to avoid getting caught by police on the highway coming back with your stash of fireworks. We all know that the highway patrol pulls over as many cars with Utah license plates as they can as soon as they cross back over into Utah. Well, now they can't ticket you for your fireworks (assuming of coarse you don't have the roman candles and bottle rockets.... etc).

I think that its about time Utah finally just gave in and is trying to bring some of the revenue back that is going to another state (according to the newspaper 10% of firework users in Utah go out of state). The sad part is that we still can't have roman candles but that's ok as long as we can still have something a bit better than the stupid fountains. Fountains are fun when you are 7 years old but they definitely don't do it for Independence Day!!!!!!!!!