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New Year and Fireworks
1 Jan 2014 00:32So, the New Year has come to my timezone amidst flashing lights and loud bangs. Apparently, the world will end in Ragnarøkkr on the 22nd of February 2014.
What would Ragnarøkkr be like? The cynical part of my mind supplies that it can't be worse than New Year's Eve, with fireworks whizzing up, going off in a blazing flash of light, generating deafening bangs, and finally fizzling to the ground. The Penguin has a headache from all of this, people!
The local stables stocked up on tranquilizer in the preceding weeks. See, fireworks generate bangs that sound very unnatural, generating panic in horses, and other animals too. (Note: fireworks are worse than gunshots in making horses freak out. Gunshots sound more like thunderclaps, fireworks are weirder and more ambiguous.)
For the following weeks, everyone'll be bumping into fireworks cartriges, which are generally made of plastic, and thus pollute the environment. Some of them will also fall down on other people's houses, causing significant fire damage. Not to mention the fact that some people will always manage to blind themselves, or cause other bodily harm to fall upon those present.
So please, could we ban fireworks from non-experts? Or at the very least, add a hefty tax for all the environmental and physical damage they'll cause. Who else should pay the hospital bill but its causers?
What would Ragnarøkkr be like? The cynical part of my mind supplies that it can't be worse than New Year's Eve, with fireworks whizzing up, going off in a blazing flash of light, generating deafening bangs, and finally fizzling to the ground. The Penguin has a headache from all of this, people!
The local stables stocked up on tranquilizer in the preceding weeks. See, fireworks generate bangs that sound very unnatural, generating panic in horses, and other animals too. (Note: fireworks are worse than gunshots in making horses freak out. Gunshots sound more like thunderclaps, fireworks are weirder and more ambiguous.)
For the following weeks, everyone'll be bumping into fireworks cartriges, which are generally made of plastic, and thus pollute the environment. Some of them will also fall down on other people's houses, causing significant fire damage. Not to mention the fact that some people will always manage to blind themselves, or cause other bodily harm to fall upon those present.
So please, could we ban fireworks from non-experts? Or at the very least, add a hefty tax for all the environmental and physical damage they'll cause. Who else should pay the hospital bill but its causers?