I was once in Evanston, Wyoming on the 4th of July.
You wouldn't believe the quantity of fireworks being discharged.
Mortars, bottle rockets, roman candles, skyrockets.
Everything. No cops causing trouble.
I was in disbelief. Never in my life had I experienced such liberty and freedom.
Wyoming is indeed a beautiful place.
I agree, when I lived in Chicago, it was completely quiet aside from a few kids trying to light off m80's or sparklers, pretty boring too. We'd go up to Michigan to visit my aunt every 4th of July and stop in Indiana and pick up a bunch of the good stuff that you couldn't get in Illinois, wow, even days before the 4th, it sounded like a war out there with people blowing off mortars and bottle rockets, and yes the freedom was great. I remember the few times we couldn't go to Michigan for the 4th, was pretty bumbed out while the rest of the US was having a huge celebration.
Down in Florida, aerial fireworks are illegal but people buy them regardless. There's a loophole however, you can possess them and purchase them but you can't light them off. Of course so many people here are blowing them off on the beach that no one really cares, even the cops don't really do anything or too many people doing it to enforce the laws.
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