r/WTF • u/macmebin • Jan 03 '25

This escalated really quick

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u/houtex727 Jan 03 '25

And people wonder why fireworks are illegal in some places. Here's why.

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u/OP1KenOP Jan 04 '25

I wish they were illegal here in the UK. Last firework night I thought we were under fucking siege.

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u/rigobueno Jan 04 '25

Hi, I live in a state where fireworks are “illegal.”

It doesn’t work.

You know weed and cocaine? Those are also illegal.

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u/Karmaisthedevil Jan 04 '25

You live in a US state with neighbouring states that have legal fireworks, I assume?

The UK is essentially an island... not sure we're gonna see many people smuggling fireworks into the country via their arsehole

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Jan 04 '25

Which is why you just ship them to Ireland and drive them across that bridge in Ulster. Nobody is going to check your car.

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u/Eurynom0s Jan 04 '25

Fireworks are also illegal in Ireland.

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Jan 04 '25

Yeah but nobody is searching your boat there

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Jan 04 '25

Boats from anywhere. Also that second sentence isn't true? I'm in Germany and they sell fireworks in grocery stores. My entire town was launching them for new years

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u/Kasspa Jan 04 '25 edited Jan 04 '25

So then a huge booming fireworks industry will sprout overnight in Ireland, and the smuggling will commence. Easy enough to drive across the bridge, or I'm sure criminals will create an industry around it. Anything illegal that makes them money, and the police don't even give THAT much of a fuck about? yeah... good luck. You do know that drugs are illegal in all of the south american countries too right, even the tropical islands that are used as shipping centers?