HAPPY FORF OF JULEE!

[Richter]

Some lunatic has armed the populace.  AS we speak the three deckers and the windowless bario house are alight with the wasted thermal glow of a few hundred rounds of mild explosive.  MY apartment is being shelled. 

Thankfully, my father and my fathers father were of the Brit, and so I know what to do.  I will draw the shades, kill the lights, and die a horrible, stoic death.

Failing that, I have my projectiles and my axe.  I will lure them in with cunning long range affronts, spill their blood, and take skulls for khorne. 

Herbert had counter munitions, but they seem to have all been hidden. 

[Dysnomia]

every so often the fireworks will make it above the treeline.  Am watching ghost hunters backwards in my  bed so I can look out the window. 


Also, I'd like to point out that I mistakenly put on earrings that are fashioned after british coins today, now I realize the irony and don't want to take them off.   

[Iason Ouabache]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/us/05parade.html?src=me

A Fourth of July parade in eastern Iowa turned to mayhem on Sunday when a pair of runaway horses barged into the crowd and trampled 24 people, many of them children. At least one person was killed, and several others were seriously injured.

The chaos took place when two horses pulling a buggy got spooked and charged into the crowd at the Heritage Day Parade, a decades-old tradition that attracts thousands to Bellevue, a town of 2,300 people nestled along the Mississippi River. Bellevue's fire chief, Chris Roling, said the two horses, both at the rear of the parade, bumped into one another, knocking one horse's bridle off and causing it to bolt, followed by the second horse.

"They took off down the street uncontrollably," Chief Roling said in a telephone interview. "They went about six blocks — the horses and the carriages behind them, running over children and adults along the parade route."

"I've been doing this 35 years and I've never seen anything like it," he added.

A spokesman for the Bellevue Police department said a 60-year-old woman was pronounced dead at University Hospital in Iowa City after she was taken there with injuries from the accident. He said her identity was being withheld until her family has been notified.

About 10,000 people were lined up along the parade route when the horses made their dash just after 11 a.m. As the runaway horses galloped through the crowd, a passenger on the buggy was thrown into the air. Parents grabbed their children and ran, and throngs of parade-goers screamed and scrambled for cover.

The horses charged ahead for more than a quarter mile until a man at the front of the parade on a haybine — an antique farm machine used to gather hay — tried to stop them.

"He turned around and saw the horses coming toward him and he pulled his unit in front of the horses to slow them down," Chief Roling said. "After running into his unit, they ran into a road sign and then there was a van that got hit. They ran into the side of the van and finally there were enough bystanders there to help out."

In addition to the woman who died, another 23 people were injured, all but two of whom were taken to local hospitals by ambulance. Among the injured were at least four people in critical condition — including at least two children - and another five with "major injuries," like broken bones, collapsed lungs and head injuries, Chief Roling said.

[Dysnomia]

just saw that on my other forum.     I'm curious how the entire bridle just came off when they rubbed heads though...I could see "came loose" or something like that if it were properly adjusted, buckled, etc etc etc.  Must not have been put on right, or have been a little loose. 

[Suu]

At the Bristol parade. Oldest one in the country at 225 years. I'm so fucking tired.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I sat about with 4 boys in a back yard in SE Portland, watching illegal aerial fireworks (I don't know why they bother making them illegal; all we have to do is buy them off the indians) and getting drinked up.

[LMNO]

At in-laws place.  Get call from friend, her parents are in the area, at a lake, 5 minutes from NH.  So we went, and got in a flat-bottom canoe, and paddled into the middle of the lake.

Then, all the docks that surrounded the lake began the firework assault.  These fuckers spend serious money on the good stuff, and it was all exploding only a few dozen feet over our heads, for almost half an hour.

That had to have been one of the best 4ths I've had in a hell of a long time.

[AFK]

Was also at the in-laws, but all we had were some dollar store sparklers.  The twin-cities did put on a fireworks show but it was a bit too late for the kiddos.  But it was an interesting evening.  My mother-in-law's, husband's lesbian daughter and her SO were visiting for the weekend.  They brought their two Yorkies and their chihuahua.  My mom-in-law has two yorkies as well.  So their were little dogs running around, my daughter running around hootin and hollerin, the two chain-smoking lesbians, and the rest of us. 

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

every so often the fireworks will make it above the treeline.  Am watching ghost hunters backwards in my  bed so I can look out the window. 


Also, I'd like to point out that I mistakenly put on earrings that are fashioned after british coins today, now I realize the irony and don't want to take them off.   

[Triple Zero]

They had to legalize them here. Too many people would go to Connecticut to get them factory-direct from Cat, or worse, go to New Hampshire and get the really GOOD stuff since there's no damn laws up there whatsoever.

So RI compromised, you can get bottle rockets, roman candles, and other non-mortar projectiles here as well as firecrackers, but no dynamite derivatives, so you still have to go to NH to get M-80s. That puts us one up on CT, since nothing can get launched and they can't get firecrackers.

So I wonder, in America you can buy bullets at the supermarket, yeah?

Can't you explode stuff with the gunpowder in those, anyway?

Or are bullets too expensive to get some serious bang for your buck? [I have no idea how much they cost]

(I just see them do it in all sorts of TV series, so it might be a very stupid suggestion)

[Cain]

We had a pretty awesome fireworks display here.  At least on par with a good Guy Fawkes display I went to a few years ago, only this was better because, well, scenery.

There was also, allegedly, a fantastic after-fireworks party, only I wouldn't know, since I was on duty and so had to hang around in the dorms until 6am.

[Suu]

They had to legalize them here. Too many people would go to Connecticut to get them factory-direct from Cat, or worse, go to New Hampshire and get the really GOOD stuff since there's no damn laws up there whatsoever.

So RI compromised, you can get bottle rockets, roman candles, and other non-mortar projectiles here as well as firecrackers, but no dynamite derivatives, so you still have to go to NH to get M-80s. That puts us one up on CT, since nothing can get launched and they can't get firecrackers.

So I wonder, in America you can buy bullets at the supermarket, yeah?

Can't you explode stuff with the gunpowder in those, anyway?

Or are bullets too expensive to get some serious bang for your buck? [I have no idea how much they cost]

(I just see them do it in all sorts of TV series, so it might be a very stupid suggestion)

Bullets you can only purchase in a firearms store.  Funny, huh?

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

You can get bullets at Walmart dude

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

You can't buy them in general stores anymore?

It's been a long time since I bought bullets.

[AFK]

Yep, Walmart.  Get your Guns AND Butter.

Also, while you may not be able to get them at the General Store, sometimes the gun shop is right next to the general store, like it is here.