Smiff 24

I spent mine workin on the cliff climber,
kinda boring for new years, but I was havin fun

calvino

I tried bringing it in early with 2 smoke bombs Then I really brang it in by tripping over my bed while half sleep-walking into the living room [&:] ya sure its nothing amazing but I didn't have any parties to go to so [8D]

suburban_hooligan

illegally.
i got hammered and lit off firecrackers. (firecrackers bring illegal in california and fireworks being illegal in my city). think i pissed my neighbors off. i don't care.
nothing like getting the new year off on the right foot huh

The_Shark

played super Mario wii with the family till midnight, had some sparkling cider, and went to bed

but today, i went to a rc track for the first time, it was a blast! im so stoked i only busted a tie rod end im great at jumping but really have to work on braking and S turns.

HPI_Savage_RC

I set off a few large firecrackers, but not as many as I would have liked, since my car got stuck in the snow on my way out to a gravel pit.

Jeremy Z

Had a couple friends over, played Uno, watched Gran Torino and had a few glasses of champaign.

sheograth

Spend the evening at a comedy club and then went bar hopping.

lee172

went out with some friends and got a little merry...

firecrackers and fireworks illegal?? thats just nuts

suburban_hooligan

in long beach fireworks are illegal for some (stupid) reason.
how ever 200 yards to the north is the city of lakewood. fireworks are legal there. so long as they're not sparklers, don't explode or go up in the air. fountains only.
sometimes i hate this over protective hippy run state

So Cal

I sat on the couch with my girlfriend watching tv till 5am. Then woke up at 9 am and went back to her house. Was exiting haha

madmax22

went skiing, bent a pole in half after attempting a switch 3, then got hit by a kid that wasnt paying attention and busted my neck, and broke my bindings.......... FML... Bad way to start off the new year, hopefully it gets better.

HPI_Savage_RC

The entire USA (As well as Canada) has been extremely overprotective since 1966 when the CPSC banned all large exploding fireworks.

An original M-80 contained ~3g of a flash powder composition, and it packed one hell of a punch for a consumer firework. Despite the DO NOT HOLD IN HAND WHILE LIGHTING FUSE warnings on the side of the devices, stupid kids would try to throw them, and many of them ended up blowing their fingers/hands off. Their mommies would of course blame the fireworks rather than the stupidity of their children, and insist that they be banned. We all know the power of delusional beliefs in numbers.

After they were banned, a pathetic limit of 130mg was set on the quantity of flash powder each device could legally contain. That limit was then further reduced to 50mg for ground devices.

Essentially, this means that all of the firecrackers you can legally obtain in the US and Canada are pretty lame. Even the larger ones that are marketed as 'M-1000', 'M-90', etc. are just small 50mg capsules inside a large clay casing. They are no more powerful than standard firecrackers. I've been making my own for 4 years now, and they are much better. With careful construction, I can make a device the size of my thumbnail that will outperform anything you can get in a fireworks shop.

Bigbangtheory

All I know is I am glad the holidays are over!

Now I don't have the temptation of the Holiday food sitting around staring at me making a mockery of me!

Dam, I am hungry right now!