Note that fireworks are illegal in Massachusetts without a permit and certification, so you know there was some unsafe shit already happening in that house.
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Oh please. Everyone ignores fireworks laws.
Tons of apartments burn down in NYC every year because of it. Guess what happens when a Roman candle goes flying into someone's bedroom 🙃
NYPD doesn't give a fuck though. They're too busy playing Candy Crush in the subway.
Setting off fireworks near buildings, or aiming them into Windows, etc is not a safe way to behave. This is not the same thing as safely posessing, storing, and enjoying fireworks. Something which countless Americans manage to accomplish, regardless of local laws.
Look into the news stories of fireworks accidents. It's almost exclusively stupid people. Like, duh, Cleetus halfway through his twelfth beer managed to blow his arm off because he thought it would be a good idea to hold a mortar shell in his hand and light it. Big surprise.
And fuck those that do.
"The cause of the fire is unknown..." Lol, I have a guess
TSA doing the math discover 17 million weapons of mass destruction
Are you saying it should be legal to fly with fireworks and knives?
No they're making a joke about the TSA saying they caught a woman the other day with 71 fireworks in her luggage. Turns out it was an open box of black cats. Yes they're illegal, yes she was wrong, But the image they release to the press had them laid out like a cocaine trafficking bust, when the actual fireworks in question were slightly more than glorified bang snaps.
I'm saying 82 'fireworks'
I said nothing about legality.
I specifically mentioned math.
And how they categorized 'fireworks'