Happy Freedom Day. For those in the USA and then get some telescopes and wait for the Fireworks. For those who are not its when we go bonkers on such things painting the clouds all sorts of colors and lights for a moment, without anyone hurt on purpose. It is a circus of the people and it has shown to be a fool’s errand to ban such things.

https://www.Portland.gov/fire/your-safety/fireworks-banned-portland

Portland being dumber then a stack of stones, it has been too long since this happened. No, despite the article there are reasons to follow it. There is a massive fire hazard and then there will be a lot of problems with morons being stupid with them. That is all stuff, that actually makes sense. All the fire investigators will have a problem because there will be a lot of fires due to the homeless population still camping throughout the city of Portland. Hard to charge people with anything when they are released for everything south of murder, and you may only get a slap on the wrist for murder half the time for that.

It is something sad that people cannot enjoy the celebrations the rest of the country is having, but when you count how the city needs something positive, and how the city is doing something about it that hearing this makes me laugh. This will not be honored and coming out of the city there was more then four shops for fireworks less then four blocs from the city limit. It looks like the rest of the area had a laugh and looked at the rule in about the same light that I did. Granted, my social calendar is something where there is not celebration save for a good meal, a nice bottle of whiskey and a two liter of Coke Zero and getting to work on projects until what’s left of me passes out on my keyboard or standing up whichever happens first.

Honestly, for this one try and be safe, whether in Portland or abroad nothing ruins the day like a moron with a roman candle trying to figure out how they can make a Megaman buster out of it and burning your apartment down. Take precaution. If you are going to use fireworks, do it safely. You could go on the internet and find different events going on in the city. Portland or otherwise, there should be something to look and see what may be in your area, you may find something cool, so while it is funny and stupid to try because a city that size with that many issues there will be people who will get fireworks for the night out of spite to the people in charge. The city is getting to that point that even if they had been charged there may be times and places where trying to enforce it is more trouble then it is worth.

Happy Holidays