🚀 go-pugleaf

I wrote, Jefferson Scott Thomas writes:

> > Heard between 10pm and midnight, did anyone else hear sounds like
> > thunder or explosions repeatedly emanating from downtown Durham?!
> > [...]  Sounds possibly like fireworks, but I don't see lights.
>
> [A]t about 2300, [I] saw a burst of Fireworks from the 15-501, in 
> the direction of Durham.  [...] [B]ut why the fireworks?

One guess is that they were dedicating that new ball park.
 
> What are the relevant pyrotechnics laws in NC [...] 'limited window' 
> [or] ''No, no, no' [?]

Not sure, except to say that recently (within last year) a new class
of fireworks was decriminalized:  those emitting showers of sparks
and/or piercing scream-whistling.

In addition to the previously (I think) legal smoke-bomb and black-
snake-charcoal kinds, these can now be bought year-'round, I think.

Still illegal (except to the privileged elite who run things like
state fairs and "public" ball parks) are the outright explosive
kind, like firecrackers.

GOOD GOD.  I just remembered that the night I heard these sounds
was Guy Fawkes's Day!


Ray Ubinger, Durham
rcu@acpub.duke.edu